NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Ice, snow may have knocked KZYX&Z off the air
Radio station KZYX and KZYZ”s transmitters were all off the air Tuesday morning, with hopes, but not promises of restoration sometime Tuesday. The transmission of three signals is tied together. That left only the live web feed. Some shows were being cancelled on Tuesday. “The situation is this: the unit up on Cold Springs Peak…
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Remembering a good man
Victims and admirers were likely to remember Ricky Del Fiorentino as a big teddy bear in uniform. Young people too. “He was a very nice man,” said Fort Bragg High School student Elizabeth Anderson. She took woodshop with Ricky”s son, who is now a senior in high school. She remembers how Ricky naturally commanded respect…
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Navy testing draws fire
A Fort Bragg crowd once again shouted “NO” at the United States Navy at a public hearing March 7 on a new plan for increased weapons testing and training from Alaska to Cape Mendocino. The “just say no” message about the expanded 2015-2020 Draft Northwest Training and Testing Range Environmental Impact Statement was the same…
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KZYX back in black, but board angry with critical member
Eight outraged fellow board members gave dissident treasurer John Sakowicz verbal pummeling at Monday night”s KZYX board of directors meeting at the Redwood Coast Senior Center in Fort Bragg. The always colorful and controversial Sakowicz did the unthinkable last month for a board member launching a formal campaign to get the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…
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Navy returns to discuss offshore testing
Weapons testing is what is new in the Navy”s plans for offshore military activity during 2015-2020, but there is a lot to read about whales. The Navy will hold an open house in Fort Bragg this Friday, March 7, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Redwood Coast Senior Center to explain its plans for…
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Checking for signs of Fukishima radiation
Like many Californians, John Bauer has been concerned about the lack of hard facts in the media about Fukushima radiation and the Pacific Ocean. Bauer, trained by the United States Navy on use of Geiger counters, decided to find out for himself. When the tsunami hit Japan back in 2011, it poured houses, boats, bodies…
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Navy will explain weapons testing plans
Editor”s note: This story was updated Saturday, Feb. 16, to include the correct meeting time of 5 to 8 p.m. The U.S. Navy will be back in Fort Bragg to showcase its 2015-2020 plans for using offshore areas of California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska for continued military training and increased weapons testing. The Northwest Training…
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State Parks in high gear on old haul road removal
This reporter took the last joyride ever down the north end of the old Haul Road last week. A breathtaking trip it was. Construction crews had freshly unearthed nearly three miles of continuous road, making possible a spectacular oceanfront drive south from Ten Mile Bridge. The day of my ride, crews were in the process…
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Food Bank serves more than those in pre-Christmas line
The woman in the black, sparkly Cher-like jacket shivered and bounced her skinny legs in shorts and bright tennis shoes on a cold Christmas eve morning. Next to her a red-haired and bearded man glared at me, or maybe at my camera. His arms were crossed in his overalls and checkered Paul Bunyan shirt. What…
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Season of Sharing: Food Bank clients can learn about healthier foods
When I was a kid, I liked to gross out my friends by eating foods that others wouldn”t. Artichokes, anchovies and asparagus tasted wonderful and often left me alone at lunch where I was infamous for sneaking hot peppers into others” meals. Turns out I was a genius, not a brat. Or maybe both? Weird…
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Price strike over; crab fishermen settle for $2.65/lb.
The strike by crab fishermen ended last Thursday, Dec. 12, after an 11-day standoff. Fishermen wanted $3 per pound while processors wanted to pay $2.50 per pound. They ended up at a price of $2.65 per pound. Some crab fishermen say they wish they had stayed in Noyo Harbor, with several reporting poor catches. Dungeness…
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Dollars do change lives at the Food Bank
Longtime Fort Bragg Food Bank volunteer Donna Byers dodged being photographed for the Season of Sharing series several times before. Then one day in 2012 we were laughing with the Key Club volunteers and she consented to be in the paper for the fund drive series. Last week, she told me the rather incredible outcome…
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For the right attitude toward charity, look to the animals
One of the worst pre-conceived notions out there, and one of the most common, is that it”s somehow shameful to go to the Food Bank. I”ve been trying to get a friend of mine to go but up until Friday he was just too proud. I know he is hungry, has a huge credit card…
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Season of Sharing at $1,270: Food Bank offers a working ?Gift Economy”
The underclasswomen were having a blast finding stylish clothes at the Fort Bragg Food Bank on the day before Thanksgiving. The days before Thanksgiving and Christmas are like the “Super Bowl” every year for the North Franklin nonprofit. Everybody turns out to serve clients all the fixings for a truly spectacular holiday meal. The pace…
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The Spirit of Thanksgiving empowers lives at Food Bank
Benjamin Franklin said, “If you want to get something done, find a busy person to do it.” Poor Richard would be proud of Fort Bragg Food Bank worker Patsy Moore. Moore was working and having fun at an exhilarating pace the week before Thanksgiving, as the Food Bank endures a shortage of volunteers. Besides working…
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Season of Sharing: Food Bank needs at least a dozen new volunteers for holidays
Tracy Mahr will never forget her first day last Wednesday as a Fort Bragg Food Bank volunteer. “I had an awakening today. I learned I am blessed. So very, very blessed,” she wrote on Facebook. When I had interviewed her earlier that day, I could tell that she was having trouble taking it all in…
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Locals lose final appeal of Haul Road removal
Locals who took the trip down to Newport Beach for their appeal of State Parks” plan to spend some $750,000 to rip out the northern remnants of the Old Haul Road were disappointed. “Hard to believe the California Coastal Commission approved a permit that will allow State Parks to destroy a 2.5 mile coastal trail.…
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Volunteer with us this year on annual Food Bank trek
My annual trek through the Fort Bragg Food Bank started with a Journey. Journey Laird, to be exact, a gal spending her eighth month on earth. While the previous three people I met didn”t want to be interviewed, her big eyes and smile sparkled and it seemed like she nodded when asked if she wanted…
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New Senior Center board at the helm
Joviality replaced controversy. Family stories replaced critical speeches and lectures. With new board members replacing five of the six who dramatically resigned, the tenor of last Friday”s Redwood Coast Senior Center board meeting completely flip flopped from a month ago. Acting board president Bob Bushansky set the tone by starting the Nov. 1 meeting apologizing…
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Fair trade fish? Creating consumer link may be key to survival of local trawlers
Part 1 of 2 Four Fort Bragg drag net fishermen, along with the Environmental Defense Fund, hope to create a “fair trade” fish, which would inform consumers about where, when, how and even who caught their fish. The effort is envisioned as an outgrowth of their Fort Bragg Groundfishing Association”s working with Central Coast fishermen…
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