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In April the Humboldt Crabs announced that, after a baseball-less year, there will be a 2021 season and that fans will again be welcome to the Arcata Ball Park (with extra COVID safety precautions in place, of course.) Well baseball lovers, opening night -- Friday, June 4 -- is now nearly upon us. Play ball!

On this week's episode of Humboldt Holding Up, president of the Crabs David Sharp tells the Outpost all about what changes to expect this season when it comes to reserving tickets, regulating crowd size and purchasing refreshments. One thing Sharp promises won't be different: the team is still strong and will be kicking some serious butt!

On this week's episode, we speak with two members of Western Organic Family Farms, a Humboldt-based dairy farm collective that produces specifically A2/A2 milk. Not familiar with Star Wars droid-sounding milk distinction? Farmers Kristina Radelfinger and Dorice Miranda will explain it for you.

Since she was elected as Arcata’s first woman council member in 1972, Alex Stillman has served many roles in her community — a council member in the ‘70s and again in 2006, a member of the Historic Sites Society and Historic Landmarks Committee and a board member of Arcata Main Street, to name a few — and she has never stopped working to improve her little Humboldt town.

Of course, the grande dame Stillman has some stories to tell from the last five decades and shares a few of them with you, dear listener, on this week’s episode of Humboldt Holding Up — the Outpost‘s good-enough podcast. Topic include: How Arcata’s adapted to COVID and the joys of outdoor dining, what HSU’s transformation to a polytechnic university will mean for the town, Arcata in the ‘70s, Stillman gives a shout-out to old bars the Keg and the Boot and talks about not partaking in the key parties, the then contentious issue of the freeway being constructed through town and the “Stop at Four” Campaign and more!

On the 50th episode of our little podcast, LoCO chats with David Cobb, longtime Green Party activist and one of the founders of Cooperation Humboldt.

It is often said and written that Humboldt County has more artists per capita than anywhere in the state, and it is understandable why people believe it. We certainly have a vibrant arts scene. But have you ever wondered where that claim originated?

On this week's episode of Humboldt Holding Up the Outpost is joined by co-founder and Executive Director of the Ink People Center for the Arts Libby Maynard, who shares the story behind what has become one of Humboldt's favorite brags. Spoiler! Maynard may have had a little something to do with sprinkling that idea around. In the 42 years since she helped start the Ink People, she has also done a lot more than that to support the arts in our community.

Other topics discussed with Maynard include: how local artists -- particularly in the performing arts -- have been impacted by COVID, Ink People's DreamMaker Program, critical role the arts will play in the recovery from the pandemic and Libby's retirement!

At a time when we are all considering welcoming guests into our homes again, Amy Cirincione O’Connor is also preparing for people to pay her a visit. A lot of people, she’s hoping. That’s because, during the pandemic, she and her husband Jon O’Connor have been readying a pair of ambitious Humboldt projects for launch. One of them — Papa and Barkley Social, a new cannabis consumption lounge, dispensary and spa — had its soft this week. The other, the rehabilitated and renamed Scotia Lodge, is scheduled to open its doors this summer. Yes, Amy’s been busy.

On today’s episode of Humboldt Holding Up, Cirincione O’Connor talks about crafting a business model that aims to further normalize cannabis for both locals and tourists.

On this week's episode of Humboldt Holding Up local musician Lyndsey Battle stops by to discuss how much music she has not been playing during the last year, how she's feeling about getting back to performing in public and what other things she's been pursuing during her year-long break from live music.

As a bonus, Battle's 12-year-old daughter, Vela also joins the podcast to talk about entering the sixth grade during the pandemic, what learning over Zoom has been like and how she's coped with being isolated from her friends.

As Humboldt beer drinkers will recall, back in late 2019 it was announced that the Yurok Agricultural Corporation was purchasing Mad River Brewing Company and its destination Blue Lake taproom, in the process making the three-decades-old business and beloved local institution one of only a handful of tribally owned breweries in North America.For Linda Cooley, Yurok tribal member and Mad River’s new COO, the acquisition has been a dream, as its led to her seeing her people represented in spaces where they’ve historically been invisible.“I got to walk into Safeway the other day and I saw the word ‘Yurok,’” Cooley noted to LoCO. “I never thought in my whole entire life that that would be possible … but here we are as Native people seeing our tribe’s name in these big chain stores and it’s unbelievable.”On this week’s episode of Humboldt Holding Up, Cooley chats with LoCO’s Andrew Goff and Stephanie McGeary about the new role she unknowingly spent much of her professional life preparing for while also sharing some of the tribe's plans for MRB going forward. Topics include:Growing up in Humboldt and getting her start in beer with Anheuser Busch and Eel River Brewery  The Yurok Tribe’s decision to become one of only a handful of tribes to own a brewery and battling stigmas surrounding Native Americans and alcohol Carrying on the established Mad River Brewery traditions Sharing the Yurok story with the world via new labels and products like their hard seltzer "Undammed"The headache of buying a business just before a global pandemic  g

Whether or not you choose to accept it, the Lost Coast Outpost has been gobbling up Humboldt's clicks for 10 whole years, as of this last week! To commemorate the occasion, LoCO editor-in-chief Hank Sims stops by the podcast to share his thoughts on why his website works in Humboldt and racks his brain to come up with some highlights from the site's history.