NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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MCTV dissolves itself; local public access TV to cease
Mendocino Coast Television has voted to dissolve their nonprofit organization, after losing a lawsuit that found they had never really owned their Laurel Street headquarters and ordered them to pay back rent. The dissolution means the end to 7-year-old MCTV, said its executive director, Elizabeth Swenson. Public access was provided for nearly three decades before…
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Salmon, fireworks get rave reviews
The 42nd Annual World”s Largest Salmon Barbecue avoided both long lines and dry fish while serving 2,347 paid meals in sunny, warm weather on Saturday in Noyo Harbor. Commercial and recreational fishermen are having their best years in perhaps a decade. Attendance was flat at the barbecue but ratings of the pink fish, beer, hot…
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Public says no, County says yes, to haul road plan
Despite a nearly unanimous “no” from the public, the Mendocino County Coastal Zone Administrator said “yes” to State Parks” $750,000 plan to rip out the northern remnants of the old Haul Road along Ten Mile Beach. The Westport Municipal Advisory Council has appealed the approval to the Board of Supervisors. Like a meeting last summer…
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What can the City do for the Skunk Train?
Fort Bragg Mayor Dave Turner says the City is willing to do whatever it can for the Skunk Train. He took umbrage with statements printed in this newspaper by Skunk Train boss Robert Pinoli that the City had not reached out to the extent Willits had. The Skunk”s tunnel number 1, located under Sherwood Road…
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99 people donate to Skunk rescue
Once upon a time a 3-year-old boy from the Anderson Valley rode the Skunk Train and dreamed the dream of countless other kids to be a conductor, in his blue suit, in charge of the fabulous iron machine. Naturally, the boy was impressed by the big huffing and clanging iron dragon when he came for…
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Veterans honor fallen comrades
Paul Nardecchia served in the United States Marine Corps and came to Rose Memorial Park in Fort Bragg Monday morning to remember with other veterans. “I lost a lot of good buddies in Vietnam and this is my way to remember and honor them,” said Nardecchia, who moved to the area nine months ago and…
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MCTV, Footlighters will meet to discuss future of building
An unlikely savior showed up at the May 16 Mendocino Coast Television board meeting with an offer to provide space to rent for $1,250 per month. “After hearing of the issues presented after the court judgment for the Footlighters of Fort Bragg against Mendocino Coast Television, I have decided to make an offer towards helping…
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MCTV focuses on finding new digs
The news that Mendocino Coast Television must give its building back to Footlighters stunned supporters of local cable access television and has created both positive suggestions and acrimony. Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Jeanine Nadel has ruled that MCTV must give back the Footlighters building at 248 E. Laurel St. in Fort Bragg and pay…
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Judge gives Footlighters its building back
Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Jeanine Nadel has ruled that MCTV must give back the Fort Bragg Footlighters building and pay the theater company $36,315. The two nonprofits have been battling in court since 2009 over a decision made in 2006 to give the big white building at 248 E. Laurel St. away. Footlighters formed…
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Protesters oppose CR cutbacks
Grandfather Dennis Jecmen of Caspar picketed Saturday about College of the Redwoods” cutbacks alongside his grandson, student Jordan Wiley. “It”s clear what is going on here. Eureka is just trying to take away what we have here,” said Jecmen. About 20 people stood alongside Highway 1 on Saturday morning as the protest started, garnering a…
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Greene seeks liquor license for Heritage House
After more than a year, the ownership of The Heritage House in Little River remains as hidden from the public as the oceanfront views on the spectacular property. But a documentary paper trail and jet flight plans point to Florida billionaire Jeff Greene as a primary owner. Greene has not responded to phone calls or…
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Changes coming to Inglenook Dunes Preserve
Land once planned as the site for the dream house of a local hotelier is about to become the newest addition to MacKerricher State Park. Those 65 acres of new park lands, new habitat for an endangered species and a new document on the removal of the old haul road are among the changes for…
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Mental Health to split $1.3M for client housing
Mendocino County is about to spend $1.3 million to create the first permanent housing for mentally ill people in the county. “We are looking to have one location in Ukiah and one in Fort Bragg. We have to see who answers our RFQ, but that is our intention right now,” said Edith Viera, the county”s…
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Redwood Health Club may reopen in late February
Construction was going full tilt this week at the Redwood Health Club, despite cold weather, with hopes for a late February reopening of Fort Bragg”s oldest workout businesses. It”s a final realization of a dream of Larry Hinson that started before he even built his Mendocino Sports Club on Highway 1 a decade ago. Hinson…
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Season of Sharing ends with grim news, reminder
The news was no surprise as it spread along the streets that the 59-year old man who died in his campsite behind the old Polly Cleaner building was Sundance. But how his tragic life actually ended hit hard for many street folks and those who serve them. Sundance, whose real name was Ronald Marc Dailin,…
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Coast”s homeless need the most help
North Franklin Street is a lonely place to spend one”s last day on earth, especially just before Christmas. The news from the Fort Bragg Police Department that a 59-year-old local transient was found dead Dec. 21 behind the old Polly Cleaners building upset the street folks who wander this lonely industrial zone. Exposure? We don”t…
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Food Bank also helps with basic needs and essentials
Quentin Lloyd and Noelle Henson had no trouble naming their Christmas wish. “A new house,” said Lloyd. The couple”s house on Sherwood Road burned down in October, wiping out all their personal property. They are living in their small sedan. The interview started when I happened upon Henson jumping superwoman-like into the car and in…
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MRC”s 80-year timber plan baffles locals
Back in 2000, the Mendocino Redwood Company (MRC) envisioned a long-term plan to manage its 213,000 acres of redwood forests in Mendocino County. MRC asked a half-dozen government agencies to create the regulatory framework for its 80-year plan. MRC was asking to simplify existing regulatory processes with a single document and integrated plan. After a…
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Volunteering, the real spirit of Christmas at Food Bank
There was a big turkey, tiny and flavorful sweet potatoes, fruit salad, stuffing made from French bread, rich gravy and beets. The aromas and flavors were Thanksgiving, but the setting was lunch at the Fort Bragg Food Bank. As she has done for the past decade, volunteer Yuki Holand had made a magnificent lunch from…
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New truck one key to Fort Bragg Food Bank”s growth
The burly delivery truck driver moved a linebacker on the blitz play. In the time it took me to load a grocery cart onto the Fort Bragg Food Bank truck”s lift, this driver has unloaded a gigantic cart full of fluffy packaged white bread? and wrangled it into Safeway; he left at a fast jog.…
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