A huge problem in Fort Bragg is the MANY people who ride bicycles and scooters, almost always without lights and clad in all back head to toe including a hoodie! Its dangerous to drive in the area of Walnut Street. We don't know what the suspect in this case was wearing but we know for sure that people riding down the road with no lights is a big issue. Please stop doing this! Wear reflective clothing!! Put lights on your skateboard, bicycle or scotter!
A man reportedly riding an electric scooter the wrong way on Walnut Street at 11 p.m Tuesday attracted the police and led to a narcotics sales arrest, a Fort Bragg Police Department press release states.
Frank Hartzell has spent his lifetime as a curious anthropologist in a reporter's fedora. His first news job was chasing news on the streets of Houston with high school buddy and photographer James Mason, back in 1986. Then Frank graduated from Humboldt State and went to Great Gridley as a reporter, where he bonded with 1000 people and told about 3000 of their stories. In Marysville at the Appeal Democrat, the sheltered Frank got to see both the chilling depths and amazing heights of humanity. From there, he worked at the Sacramento Bee covering Yuba-Sutter and then owned the Business Journal in Yuba City, which sold 5000 subscriptions to a free newspaper. Frank then got a prestigious Kiplinger Investigative Reporting fellowship and was city editor of the Newark Ohio, Advocate and then came back to California for 4 years as managing editor of the Napa Valley Register before working as a Dominican University professor, then coming to Fort Bragg to be with his aging mom, Betty Lou Hartzell, and working for the Fort Bragg Advocate News. Frank paid the bills during that decade + with a successful book business. He has worked for over 50 publications as a freelance writer, including the Mendocino Voice and Anderson Valley Advertiser, along with construction and engineering publications. He has had the thrill of learning every day while writing. Frank is now living his dream running MendocinoCoast.News with wife, Linda Hartzell, and web developer, Marty McGee, reporting from Fort Bragg, California.
