NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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News
What’s a conservative? What’s a liberal? These No Kings Protesters were both. Check out the scenes in Fort Bragg, Point Arena, Boonville, Gualala, Willits and Ukiah!
William F. Buckley, the best known conservative of his time, said a conservative was the one who arrived in a room of people intent on changing the world yelling “STOP.” I thought of that watching my friend Janet Ashford walking through protests carrying a sign saying “NO.” I first met Cindy when she was English…
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Go Dad! Classic Car Show, No Kings protest, seaweed walk, classic vocals features of Saturday in Fort Bragg
Seaweed, sea urchins, classic cars, a big political protest and a celebration of classic vocals are all ways you can start your Father’s Day Weekend on Saturday. learning about sea weed gathering at MacKerricher State Park, see one of the best vintage and hot rod cars shows in Northern California, attend the No Kings Day…
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Agriculture & Fishing
How rude for the fish not to show up! Huge salmon rush fills Noyo Harbor, hotel, restaurant coffers
Dawn Brewer, went out salmon fishing at dawn with half a dozen others. By 10 am, they had a limit of 10 fish, two for each fisher. Dawn, of course, was NOT fishing out of Noyo Harbor. There was mostly hard luck here on the first day of ocean Chinook salmon fishing in two years…
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Oceans
Ride along for huge Saturday in Mendo: Heavy metal, wildflowers, Fresnel lens and Navarro by the Sea are just some of the fun
The lineup for fun on the Mendocino Coast this weekend might be the most diverse and interesting of the year, even without one of the big festivals. The trip is designed to go from Fort Bragg to Navarro and back. Put on your thinking cap and history spectacles and get ready to ride both ways…
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Agriculture & Fishing
Chris Rogers learns salmon, you should too! Get ready for the rush for 2-day salmon season that starts June 7!
Can you be one of the chosen 7000? The Department of Fish and Wildlife will close the season at 7000 fish. That’s for the whole state. If anglers aren’t too skilled at catching king salmon and everybody together doesnt hit the 7000 fish mark, the season will reopen for another fish rush on July 5…
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History
Abalone limits, Albion Bridge, engagements share D-Day headlines in Mendocino Beacon of 1944
Check out the local headlines in the Beacon from the issue after D-Day and two other of my old newspapers. The Mendocino Beacon did its usual reporting on three women getting engaged, a big shakeup at Mendo High and people having big success rockpicking abalone, up to the limit. The limit was 10 at the…
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D-DAY! On this day 81 years ago in Mendo, the Albion Bridge opening was also top news
Check out the local headlines in the Beacon from the issue after D-Day and two other of my old newspapers. The Mendocino Beacon did it usual reporting on three women getting engaged, a big shakeup at Mendo High and people having big success rockpicking abalone, up to the limit. The limit was 10 at the…
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Fourth of July
Extra! Extra! Read all about our big scoop—In Real Estate Magazine!
GIGANTIC art exclusive only to be read in REM! Where is Mad Cad going? You will have to read the paper to find out. Want to read about the Mendocino 4th of July parade breaking (or braking) news in the new issue of Real Estate Magazine? I’ll not give it away, and its NOT on…
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Albion
84-acre Albion Headlands for sale, 16 houses or preserve? Will public access to the oceanfront ever return to Albion? Attend a Monday, June 9 public meeting to hear from Land Trust, Realtor
(This article has been built with the help of crowd sourcing and I encourage people to continue and to click for updates.) Albion’s headlands, home to cattle for more than a century, is now up for sale and being advertised as being legally able to allow 16 separate residential parcels. The property is for sale…
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Elk
Amador County tribe pulls plug on Sacred Rock resort in Elk
One of the Coast’s most spectacular view properties, the Sacred Rock Inn in Elk, has closed down, laid off all staff abruptly and announced a permanent closure and refunds to those who paid for rooms in the month of June. This came after the clifftop property was part of a big 2 year publicity campaign…
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Mendocino Coast Humane Society
Here is why you should get a rescue dog and a genetic test
Linda and I, and Brutus have been socializing our new puppy, Caesar, around the block. He has gone everywhere possible, been trained, encouraged, and has rewarded us with a truly spectacular level of curiosity, his common sense, and his gregarious and always doing, meeting, and trying to love everyone. While he is being friendly, he…
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Mendocino
KZYX names new boss, can he lead station through Trump cuts, quarrels, all the way to the Ukiah promised land?
KZYX’s new boss, Andre de Channes, beat out nine other candidates and will absorb two jobs with a can-do, let’s all move forward approach.The latest in a long string of general managers at the Philo station, he will do the top job while keeping current job as operations manager. KZYX has 110 programmers creating uniquely…
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Join the KZYX board meeting today at 5 p.m. on Zoom, by phone or by sending an email
Lots going on with the Trump cuts to NPR and PBS coming. We have been talking about it on the MCN Announce and Discussion lists KZYX is a critical part of our community, born and raised in the Anderson Valley and moving to Ukiah. What should its future be? Tune in to the board meeting…
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Join the 100 people who watched this Fort Bragg Memorial Day service, video and photos here
Please enjoy the video of this year’s Memorial Day ceremony at the cemetery in Fort Bragg. The cemetery is flying the glorious colors today, all men and women who lived their full lives after serving, at least that I could find. If we have an service members who died overseas and were interred here, I…
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Rite Aid closure now 30 days out! Change your meds Monday, plus yard sale finds, and some polyamorous geese
During our Yard sale rambles, we discovered Rite Aid had been given a 30-day closure notice. We have all known it’s been in the process of closing, but the quick date took me aback. If you have meds there, like I did, you have to act NOW. I do most of my meds at Mendocino…
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Memorial Day
Remembering Billie Sandefur on Memorial Day, fishermen lost at sea, and the quest for bygone American integrity and courage
Memorial Day might not be the holiday one equates with funny stories, but I had to laugh when reading about how Lt. Billie E Sandefur earned the soldier’s medal of heroism while ashore in Hawaii in 1969. Sandefur and his wife lived in Little River. The Lt. chased down a runaway truck with eight men…
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Memorial Day
Remembering Clyde Lucas….the first in a probable series of Veterans remembrances on Memorial Day weekend
Clyde died for his country back in 1968. Let’s remember him and so many more on this Memorial Day Weekend. Join Honor Guard details from the American Legion and Coast Guard Noyo Harbor for the annual Memorial Day ceremonies.The first will be at 10am at Zenith Hill in Mendocino Village and 11am at Rose Memorial in…
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It’s the biggest garage sale weekend of the year! Here is a roundup. Send me photos of your finds..
This is the first installation of Yard Sale Fun on the Coast, from Albion to Westport. If people like it and send stuff, I could do more. There is a list here you can follow from south to North, with directions. Please send any more you sales you find out there and we welcome photos…
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Why is our flag important? Ask the Iversens, who never came back to the Mendocino Coast
This is a follow-up story to one about a German battle flag being displayed ABOVE the American flag in Fort Bragg. Some people didn’t think it was a big deal. I do and wanted to show what the flag meant to some forgotten local heroes who should be remembered. On Jan. 30, 1941, Norman Kenneth…
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Why is a German World War II flag flying above the stars and stripes in Fort Bragg? Let’s find out!
Why is a World War II German battle flag flying above the stars and stripes in Fort Bragg? I heard about this and went to look. The worst part is that the flag of the German regular army and navy are above the beautiful stars and stripes, which is an act of indecency. No its…
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