NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Adventist Health Mendocino Coast
Paul Katzeff Resigns, Ending Tenure on Mendocino Coast Hospital Board
Paul Katzeff Resigns from Mendocino Coast Hospital Board Paul Katzeff, co-founder of Thanksgiving Coffee Company and one of Fort Bragg’s most influential business and civic figures, has resigned from the Mendocino Coast Hospital District Board. Katzeff announced his departure Sunday morning via the MCN listserve, just months after winning election to the seat. His exit…
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Environment & Natural Resources
Can you make a wish on a falling Starlink?—Wow!!!Did you see that?? Questions swirl about heavy metals overhead— and the risk of getting bonked by falling space junk
Plus- all Mendo Starbucks seem to have survived first round of closures-thanks Gary! And you other readers! One of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites exploded into a fiery spectacle Thursday night, sending glowing fragments streaking across the sky—a cosmic detonation that awed stargazers from Redding to Los Angeles. Mendocinocoast.news received six eyewitness reports from Mendocino County…
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Food
Could Starbucks closures hit Mendocino County?- company responds to questions
Editor’s Note- For updates on the Baldy Fire burning in the forest near the Mendocino-Humboldt County line, go to Baldy Fire. Fire naming is so idiotic as to be offensive. We beg Cal Fire to stop this foolishness and name fires for where they are or something that makes even a tiny bit of sense.…
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Adventist Health Mendocino Coast
From Healing to Hosting: The Dingmans Step Into History—Restoring Fort Bragg’s Original Hospital to Shine Once More
Fort Bragg’s Gray Whale Inn Begins a New Chapter One of Fort Bragg’s iconic historic buildings has found new owners and a fresh future. The Gray Whale Inn, a proud legacy of the Union Lumber Company and a gift to the community, is working toward being able to welcome guests once again. The new stewards…
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Mendocino County
Justice and Firepower: Mendocino’s New Judge and the Emergency Response You are not hearing about
Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new appointment to the Mendocino County Superior Court last week. Here comes the judge! We scored an interview with his about to be your honor. FredRicco McCurry, 56, is set to don the black robes as Mendocino County’s newest Superior Court judge, stepping into the seat vacated by retiring Judge…
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Events
Day of music, food eating contest, battle for fish taco supremacy and piracy in Noyo Harbor ends with walk the plank fundraiser
Noyo Harbor Festival Makes a Splash with Food, Fun, and Fundraising The Noyo Harbor Festival raised $13,000, drawing a lively crowd to North Noyo Harbor on both Saturday and Sunday for a weekend packed with competitive food events, playful antics, and live music. Fort Bragg’s beloved milkman, Ryan Genaro, took home the crown in the…
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Noyo Harbor
Noyo Harbor Festival jams south harbor, fish taco competiton plank walking fun is Sunday!
Harbormaster Anna Neumann challenged deck hands from party boats and other fishermen. Get ready to crown Fort Bragg’s finest fish taco this Sunday at the Noyo Harbor Festival! Join the fun as local chefs compete for the title, and you—yes, you—get to be the judge. 🐟 After the festivities, four brave souls have pledged to…
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Events
Ahoy Matey! Fish filleting, fishing pole casting, fish eating, treasure hunt, fish taco making contests at this weekend’s Noyo Harbor Festival in South Noyo Harbor
Watch our own Frank Hartzell, Harbormaster Anna Neumann, Supervisor Bernie Norvell and Fort Bragg Police Capt. Thomas O’Neal walk the plank- but only if you pay! Why don’t pirates take a shower before they walk the plank? Because they wash up on shore! The third annual Noyo Harbor Festival wraps up Sunday with all the…
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Fort Bragg
Controversial Bainbridge Park Construction site offers free empty toxic barrels? – Plus Jack Peters overnight closurers are now off—
We have an update coming for this story tomorrow. A reader sent us these photos from the construction site for the upgraded kids park that the city of Fort Bragg is working on right now. Shocking to me. Giving away free toxic barrels is a no-no. Heck it was in Texas in 1983 when I…
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CalTrans
NIGHT CLOSURES NOW CANCELED FOR THIS WEEK. Here is how to get around the Jack Peters Creek overnight closures all next week
Plus- Caltrans wants to donate artificats of the old Depression Era bridge project to a museum locally! Thanks, and give us a shout! There will be posted detours for the overnight closures of the Jack Peters Creek Bridge, which are planned to happen all next week, Monday, Sept 15-Thursday Sept 18, from 10 p.m. to…
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California Coastal Commission
Update- come tour the millsite with Coastal Commission….it should start at 1:30 p.m with a walk! ..CC won’t be taking public input on apartment project on Todd Point—proposal has already been litigated 5 times!
A potential highlight of Fort Bragg’s upcoming three-day series of meetings is a guided tour of the historic Skunk Train and the adjacent former millsite property—an area central to the city’s evolving development plans. Meanwhile, Fort Bragg will continue celebrating its coastal heritage through early October with a lineup of ocean-themed events, including a kelp…
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Anderson Valley
FedEx driver pulls over to help crashed UPS truck on SR 128 about 6:15 pm, one lane still blocked at 7:30 p.m.
A Fedex Truck stopped to help when a UPS truck was involved in a crash with a black sedan on Highway 128. A reader who called in found that a roadside emergency phone did not work. Mendocino Coast.news is looking into whether any of those phones still work. The crash among the big redwoods on…
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Westport
Fish Ahoy! Trout spotted in Chadborne Creek are good signs for comeback of the Mendocino Coast’s three ocean going freshwater fishes
Massive Caltrans construction underway in Westport—among the largest of its kind in California—has not, to date, compromised the health of nearby Chadbourne Creek in any observable way. In a flicker of color and a tiny splash no bigger than a raindrop, the young gamefish spun, darted, and—just for a moment—revealed herself in Chadbourne Creek This…
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Paul Bunyan Days
Richard Rexrode’s all-original 1909 REO rolled proudly through the Paul Bunyan Days parade—just one of many delightful moments and quirky highlights you might’ve missed
Check out these cool photos from Bob and Frank! This was my favorite photo set of the day. Has all the elements of a great photo, cute dog, statuesque dog owner, fire truck, kid, North Coast Brew and all with a Tall Guy hat! Patrick owes me a fresh brew for sure now! The fire…
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Albion
Four seriously Injured in Little River afternoon wreck; First responders snag missing dog, Cinder by its leash at twilight.
In second crash on Labor Day, truck and trailer go off road and possibly into McGuire’s Pond on HIghway 20 Four Injured in Labor Day Crash on Little River Airport Road; Family Dog Missing Four people sustained serious injuries and were airlifted to medical facilities on Labor Day after their vehicle veered off Little River…
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Dining
Vote for your favorite Coast burger, sandwich and unique take out lunch!
Two new local lunch counter delights will open soon, Huck’s opened on Labor Day! BandC Next! Who wants to do lunch on the beach? Reasonably priced and scrumptious lunch take-out is having a late summer renaissance, so prepare to have some amazing picnics out of paper bags! Way back in June, the Mendocino Coast had hit…
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Paul Bunyan Days
Tons of fun for kids from 3 to 93 , Paul Bunyan Days
Put me in Coach!! Play Ball with Paul and Babe, the 2025 theme is our favorite Paul Bunyan Days idea ever. Baseball !! Reading old Fort Bragg Advocate-News articles from the days when the paper had a bustling local office and a full community staff was mind-blowing. Baseball dominated the first half of the 20th century—there was…
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City of Fort Bragg
Worried about plastic turf and plastic playground fill? We would love your help doing research!
Nobody protested when it was time to do so…Its too late now, but let’s dig and prepare for future plastic onslaughts We went to Bainbridge Park and Wiggly Giggly Campground to see how the soccer fields installation was going. Wow! Mendocinocoast.news. broke this story, like almost every story over the past year that wasn’t a…
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Environment & Natural Resources
Letter to the Editor- If they didn’t want the water, why did they ask for it? Ettelson responds to Mendocinocoast.news article on Cal Fire water rights application being canceled in Caspar Forest
Richard is responding to: Who has the rights to our local rivers and streams? Cal Fire water rights canceled in the JDSF, other water sources being expanded – Mendocino Coast .News Dear Editor: On July 14, 2025 the California Water Resources Board canceled two water-right applications filed by the Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) to…
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Arts & Entertainment
Local News roundup- schools reroute controversial path, Jack Peters new railings, Danco needs to fix fence, New ‘housing’ on sale at roundabout, Dog Park gets spruced up and more!!
Jack Peters deck and rail replacement is more than half done! Caltrans and its contractor have completed the east side of Jack Peters Creek Bridge. Here are some views of the new railing. We call foul on the 2025 date. But it is supposed to be all done before 2026; See photos. Isn’t this cheating?…
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