NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Silver alert issued for missing South Coast man
MEDIA ADVISORY/NEWS RELEASEDATE: “April 25, 2025”FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Incident Number: 2025-8178Crime/Incident:Missing PersonLocation: Old State Highway in Gualala, CADate of Incident: 04-24-2025Time: 04:15 A.M.Victim(s): Missing Person Clifford Souza (74-year-old male from Gualala, CA)Suspect(s): N/AWritten By: Sergeant Brandon Lee #1303Synopsis: On 04/24/2025 at approximately 4:15 A.M., the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office was informed of a possible missing person / overdue motorist in the area of Gualala,…
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Trump protests on Saturday will avoid conflicts with Noyo Food Forest’s Earth Day fun and Town Hall Craft Fair
The next big day of Trump protests is Saturday, April 19, 2025 Protesters from Indivisible Mendocino are making efforts to prevent the protests from interfering with two other events going on in Fort Bragg that day. Our pal Tami is not afraid to be for peace! Saturday is also the annual Earth Day celebration of…
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Crime Reports
Fort Bragg police assaulted with butcher knife, flower pots, toilet seat, residents terrified, cop treated for cuts, but no serious injuries
The police do a good job of telling the story below. It’s true, FB police are very good at de-escalating without violence or guns. Read this and think of some cases you have seen on the news where the cops fired sooner. Good not to have someone badly hurt or killed! The cops sent a…
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Big River-Jack Peters Creek projects tie up traffic in Mendo for up to 45 minutes.. will it continue?
Linda and I and Brutus went to Mendo on Wednesday afternoon for Sweetwater soaking and dog walking on Big River Beach. We were astonished at the traffic tieups, especially the one caused by the restriping of Big River Bridge, as this one is NOT on the Caltrans road site!. And it was causing the very…
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Look down, look up! Salamanders, banana slugs and forest floor life featured in new mural
A new mural was unveiled the same day as the big protests in downtown Fort Bragg. I walked up two blocks to get some photos. There I found others who had been at the protests, such as my long-time redoubtable pal Janet Ashford, who trekked through the whole protest, meeting old friends and joining in,…
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Mendocino’s kings and queens of the skies return for spring lovings and sushi
Brutus and I have two new friends in Caspar. George and Gracie the ospreys. A young couple that just moved into their parent’s massive treetop nest house. They were calling to each other as one stayed at the nest and the other flew off and brought back stuffing for the nest. Ospreys are literally coming…
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2024 Election
Protesters hug, chant, wave at counter protesters and act “square” at huge Fort Bragg protest
As “Hands Off” protest crowds in all 50 states and more than 1200 locales swelled beyond expectations, Coast residents gathered as Mendocino Indivisible under sunny skies to protest federal cuts to everything rural, low-income and senior people depend on, from Medicare to feeding programs. Over 1000 demonstrators (according to this reporter’s effort at grid counting) …
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2024 Election
Nationwide ‘Hands Off’ protests come to Fort Bragg on Saturday
Timothy Stoen has been practicing law for more than 60 years and will take to the streets not to defend a client but to defend America. “I am demonstrating tomorrow with our local chapter of Indivisible. My poster reads: “Stop the Cruelty – Impeach the Maniac.” It is a ‘big tent’ protest under the arching…
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Many contest my ID as a red-legged frog! But nobody can explain massive size of this “tree frog”
Last night, Linda found this big beautiful California frog crawling up our back door frame. I think it’s a female and maybe full of eggs. Her body was more than 3 inches long. I have seen these pink-red bellied large frogs for years around here. But whenever I have shown a picture of them to…
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Housing project approved, but will city take opportunity to make Ocean View safer?
87-unit apartment complex gets unanimous approval from Fort Bragg City Council Here is my story in the Mendocino Voice about the approval of Kosh Grewal’s rental housing project. Many questions remain. Caltrans asked the city to use the opportunity to finally make the Coastal Trail there more accessible to the disabled. The city didn’t discuss…
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Crime Reports
21-year old Fort Bragg woman arrested booked on elder abuse, fireworks charges for attacks on homeless woman
A 21-year old Fort Bragg hairstylist and a juvenile male, both from Fort Bragg, face charges for allegedly throwing lit fireworks at a homeless woman four separate times on July 8, 2024. A video of one of the alleged attacks became a viral video. The police would only say the boy in the car was…
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Fort Bragg
Coast Guard conducts dramatic night training operation from Noyo Bridge to Pudding Creek
Helicopters were circling from 5pm to 950pm on Thursday over Noyo Harbor, Pudding Creek and Cleone They sounded like big Coast Guard Copters. I had no idea what was going on? Could this be a drill? At night? I went out and took pictures. YUP! I called the Noyo station and they confirmed it. I…
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Mendocino Indivisible draws huge crowd, what’s next?
The Huddle, or Indivisible Mendocino is a resistance movement that certainly has the right reaction to present insanity. Folks I think we need a bigger boat! Wood ducks are among the most beautiful and beloved poultry there is. But woodies are also the most fearful and don’t know how to resist and assimilate. As a…
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Sheriff’s Department issues statement on serial killler case.
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department has issued a press release that contradicts what daughter Galina Trefil has been saying on social media about authorities refusing to check the DNA of her father, whom she claims is a serial killer. The did check, the press releases says and results from a 1970s murder case that had…
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Fort Bragg Apartments developer responds to social media questions about proposed 87-unit project next to Outlet Store
Fort Bragg Planning Commision will get first look Wednesday at city's biggest proposed development of the century
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International Women’s Day in Fort Bragg in pictures
International Women’s Day in Fort Bragg generates protests and history Linda and I enjoyed taking photos at the two events in Fort Bragg for International Women’s Day, the one inside Town Hall celebrating history from the Daughters of the Golden West and outside, the big protest. Check out the Mendocino Voice story. Brutus almost became…
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Fort Bragg City Council
87 housing units proposed at Todd Point
Fort Bragg Planning Commission awaits first look at the project next Wednesday, March 12 In a town starved for affordable and worker housing, the biggest private housing development project in years will be on the agenda of the Fort Bragg Planning Commission on Wednesday, March 12. The plans are for 87 housing units on 2.7…
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Skunk-city visioning for millsite a lot like 2020 vision- KZYX broadcast
Here is my piece on KZYX radio about the millsite vision meeting last week. The text of the broadcast is below minus the quotes of residents who spoke. Click below to hear the broadcast! KYZX broadcast Some conceptual drawings from the wall of Town Hall. They were not discussed at the meeting but included the…
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Frankly Speaking- ‘deep thoughts’ and fun stuff to do, too.
Come enjoy a hometown stroll with Brutus and I and sometimes Linda on the north end of Fort Bragg. First responders have been touched and sometimes traumatized by suicide attempts and successful suicides. Since the heartbreaking death of a teenager in December, the Fort Bragg t, led by Cpt. Thomas O’Neal and Chief Neil Cervenka,…
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Crime Reports
Windsor police arrest man for huge illegal abalone haul from Elk, many undersized
The following is a press release from the city of Windsor Windsor Deputy Apprehends alled Abalone Poacher February 26th at approximately 10:30pm, a Windsor Police Department Deputy contacted the subjects of an occupied vehicle on the 700 block of Shiloh Rd. The deputy learned the male driver identified as Jason Ramos (46) from Santa Rosa…
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