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Arcata

American  
[ahr-kay-tuh] / ɑrˈkeɪ tə /

noun

  1. a town in NW California.


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They lived for many years in Arcata, northern California, surrounded by sweeping forests of redwood trees, where Wayne worked as a landscape architect, while Stella was a primary school teacher.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025

Arcata started dangling $50,000 bonuses to prospective new hires as a result.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

In Arcata, a remote town in northern California, a raft of officer departures and retirements forced local leaders to collapse policing to core services and cut back on a community-oriented response unit.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

Arcata, a city of about 19,000 people where Cal Poly Humboldt is located, is in the midst of its own housing crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2023

We found Arcata bedecked for the coming anniversary.

From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock

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