NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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23rd Caspar Fest celebrates towns dramatic escape from Company town selloff with Muppet master’s Gertie, music, art and friend
The stylish young couple just had to take a look . New to Fort Bragg, they had wondered about that quaint New England style church and peculiar structures amidst green fields several times on the trip to Mendocino. What is Caspar?. Caspar, especially at sunset, looked more like a watercolor painting than someplace occupied by…
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City of Fort Bragg
Local gardener leads Fort Bragg movement against artificial turf on field for kids. Effort continues after fact correction, apology. Stop by and chat with them on Saturday!
A century from now if anybody is left to watch Fort Bragg City Council meetings, those who do might say, who was Christopher Cisper and did he know he was ahead of his time? And why did nobody listen when people talked about the incredibly important subject of those deathly plastics everybody used unthinkingly back…
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Fort Bragg man, 32, arrested for stabbing mom, 60, and her friend, 47, son claims in self defense.
(Most of the information from the following comes from a press release issued by the Fort Bragg Police Department, issued by Capt. Thomas O’Neal) A son is accused of stabbing his mother and another man multiple times at 163 Morrow Street in Fort Bragg. Police arrested Danynes Cox-Pabo, 32. a few hours later after county…
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Fort Bragg man, 32, arrested this morning for stabbing mom, 60 and second man, 47— suspect claims it was in self-defense
(Most of the information from the following comes from a press release issued by the Fort Bragg Police Department, issued by Capt. Thomas O’Neal) A son is accused of stabbing his mother and another man multiple times at 163 Morrow Street in Fort Bragg. Police arrested Danynes Cox-Pabo, 32. a few hours later after county…
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Extreme adventuring in Fort Bragg leads to 911 call – but about who?
Today and yesterday, my adventurous summer outings saw six very brave humans having extreme escapades that could easily have ended in their deaths, more thrilling and wild than most people ever dare. I called 911 on one of them. You will have to view the photos and figure out who was the one I called…
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On July 15, MCSO releases two videos showing June 5 fatal Willits tasering . Video matches original press release. We would like to tell the human stories here, please contact us, every life is worth a story
The Mendocino County Sheriff has released a 17-minute video showing what happened in a fatal tasering of a hitchhiker who had gotten into a fight with someone who picked him up and inflicted injuries on the motorist that resulted in that person being hospitalized. The encounter led to the death by taser of the hitchhiker,…
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Murder trial delays plea hearing for Fort Bragg man accused of rape. Murder trial? What murder trial? The deplorable state of the local news media is described- please follow up on arrests!
A group of 10 people in Fort Bragg’s Ten Mile Court got up and left as soon as the plea hearing for Cayden Craig, 23, was postponed, Monday morning, leaving the courtroom without a single observer. The crowd was mostly a row of women who were interested in the case. There was also a relative…
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CalTrans
First of its kind tribal collective awaits resolution of “impossible” fix to State Route 1 before taking ownership of Blues Beach.
Two of the biggest news stories of 2025 are happening at Blues Beach, at the same time, but are not related to each other. One is that unless a construction company whose motto is “We Deliver on the Impossible” can make good on their slogan, the state’s north-south Coastal artery could be severed, cutting off…
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Roads & Transportation
PG&E crews perform spectacular aerial repairs to pole and transformer across from Cal Fire in Fort Bragg
Power is out at the south end of Franklin Street and the east side of Main Street. I discovered this driving home after work about midnight, one of the more dramatic scenes to come upon in a little town like ours. There were three workers high in the air on buckets and several blocks were…
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Ride all night for $35 at Lions Club Carnival by the Sea- event pays for emergency room toys for kids, scholarships, eye care, Christmas dinner and more!
The giant ferris wheel, the cotton candy, the Fort Bragg-Mendocino Lions Club’s annual Carnival by the Sea is on. The event is sponsored by the Skunk Train which lends its property, the most spacious location the carnival has ever been in. The event started Thursday night. Lions volunteers saw a lot of adults coming in…
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Peep. PEEEEEEP! You heard it here first! The sounds of a herd of classic mini coopers rolling through Fort Bragg, on their way to a mountain party!!
They really can’t pass much on the road, especially a classic burger stand but they are cool to look at. Fort Bragg was visited by a caravan of classic Mini Coopers last week. I had hoped to get the story up in time for people to see it, but the 10 little fellas went on…
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4th of July in Mendo shows WE are still WE the people, but stop messing with Old Glory, please!
Listen to the faces at Mendocino’s 4th of July parade. You can still see in the faces in the photos the exuberance at being beautiful and ugly Americans. Everywhere was the American flag, still the symbol of the American myth that conquered the world and steered Europe and Japan toward Democracy. The parade was big,…
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Drunken man arrested in machete attack at Comptche store has a story too. Senior citizen took weapon from younger man, gave it to cops
This is all old news that we are just getting from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department in a press release Monday about 6 p.m about a machete attack fought off nearly a week ago. But it hit all my rivals like a lightning bolt this afternoon. Why? Only one reason! Someone issued a press release!…
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road closures
128 reopening announced at 830 PM- blocked both ways all day after crane falls over. Click here for the story updates
At 830 PM Manny Macado from Caltrans notified me the road had just been reopened. It was closed to traffic both ways for six hours Foks, the rest of the story below is moot, but its a bit tiresome how many folks want to quarrel over whether 128 flows south or east when you go…
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What are the real costs of fireworks? Fort Bragg show to go on Saturday, but fatal warehouse explosion in Esparto shuts others down+ these other short news items
•Put a fork in it-Fort Bragg salmon fishing is done for 2025 after bad fishing weekend here but huge SF-Monterey haul, will Coho fishing return someday? SURJ, (Showing up for Racial Justice), a key player in local Black Lives Matter protests, has decided to close the local chapter •Caltrans announces $1 million in grants for…
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Fun July 4 parade in Mendo! After party lasts till 9! DJ street dance , Masonic Hall tours, Parade is now traced back to 1876 and was always wacky!
The return of the Petaluma Chicken Pluckers to the Mendocino 4th of July parade is just one of the fun things to crow about during Independence weekend on the Coast Janice Littrell, executive director of the Mendocino Coast Chamber of Commerce, invites everyone to enjoy the longest and most diverse parade in years, along with…
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Fort Bragg man allegedly peeped into the windows of two other women, came back to break in once before June 21 rape of different victim. Now faces charges in 4 separate cases
UPDATE- JULY 3— Earlier this week an arrangement was held for Cayden Paul Craig, 23, of Fort Bragg on the charges detailed in the following story. Craig has hired a private attorney Justin Petersen of Santa Rosa. Petersen asked for and was granted a continuance to enter the plea. (which is normal practice). His $1,000,000…
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23-year-old Fort Bragg man’s own statements lead to his arrest for rape in sex assault case, but the angry and self righteous targeted an innocent man and communities, lets stop that forever.
Editor’s note— Please remember that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. The suspect arrested is 6 foot 3, 185 lbs, and 23 years old. He is a 2021 graduate of Mendocino High School. Please note– this person does not appear to be one of the “Facebook suspects” that were being shared around and accused! People…
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Broken leg! Wasp attack! Apologies for missed stories and appointments. We are back at it Sunday. See you at the quilt show!
. So we hired 4 guys plus Linda and I went to work clearing our acre. The first casualty was me. I was out for half an hour and got attacked by a swarm of yellowjackets. Got a nice eybrow sting that made my ear fire tears all day Saturday at work. Linda’s broken leg.…
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Take a photo walk from Redwood and Main to Lions Hall with me, and celebrate local creativity and the city awarding contracts locally, like we USED to do
A huge swarm of men armed with heat guns and trowels used ladders today to attack the Fort Bragg Police station’s roof, ripping, tearing, gouging until there was nothing left. Thankfully, it was the crew from Redwood Roofers, a local business. The city has been reroofing its main buildings, each costing more than $100k. We…
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