NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Area residents travel to Fortuna for MLPA task force decision
More than a dozen Mendocino Coast residents traveled to Fortuna to attend a 10-hour meeting Monday, most to tell the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative”s Blue Ribbon Task Force to approve, not change, a locally originated ocean protection plan. Monday was the task force”s day to sit and listen, first to state officials and scientists…
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Area residents travel to Fortuna for MLPA task force decision
More than a dozen Mendocino Coast residents traveled to Fortuna to attend a 10-hour meeting Monday, most to tell the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative”s Blue Ribbon Task Force to approve, not change, a locally originated ocean protection plan. Monday was the task force”s day to sit and listen, first to state officials and scientists…
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Good news allows school to restore cuts
Eight times every week, the sounds of silence at Dana Gray Elementary will be replaced with the return of windy toots of kids playing the recorder, after a move last week by the Fort Bragg Unified School District board. OK, there is never really silence at Dana Gray, but thanks to the last round of…
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Good news allows school to restore cuts
Eight times every week, the sounds of silence at Dana Gray Elementary will be replaced with the return of windy toots of kids playing the recorder, after a move last week by the Fort Bragg Unified School District board. OK, there is never really silence at Dana Gray, but thanks to the last round of…
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Navy extends comments on military training
The comment period for the U.S. Navy plan to increase military training exercises off Washington, Oregon and Northern California, has been extended until Saturday, Oct. 24. Congressman Mike Thompson spoke with the undersecretary of the Navy and the comment period on the NWTRC was extended, his office confirmed. The NWTRC testing area includes 122,400 nautical…
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Transition Towns offers Otis Johnson Park workday among 10 Climate Change events
A brand new retaining wall covering an entire 40-foot hillside created from materials found in Otis Johnson Wilderness Park is one of the restoration efforts that will be visible at workdays scheduled for the next two Saturdays. Mendocino Transition Towns” “10 Days, 10+ Ways to Reverse Climate Change, Beginning on 10-10-10,” offers a day for…
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Transition Towns offers Otis Johnson Park workday among 10 Climate Change events
A brand new retaining wall covering an entire 40-foot hillside created from materials found in Otis Johnson Wilderness Park is one of the restoration efforts that will be visible at workdays scheduled for the next two Saturdays. Mendocino Transition Towns” “10 Days, 10+ Ways to Reverse Climate Change, Beginning on 10-10-10,” offers a day for…
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Supervisors support MLPAI stakeholders” map
The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted 4-1 to join numerous other governments, including the Fort Bragg City Council, in supporting the Regional Stakeholders Groups” single proposed map of new marine protected areas under the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative. The stakeholders” plan is for most new marine protected areas to be concentrated between…
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Sacramento judge declares MLPAI bodies are public, not private
In a victory for advocates of transparent government, a Sacramento judge ruled last Friday that Marine Life Protection Act Initiative bodies are state agencies that cannot deny lawful requests for public records. “The Blue Ribbon Task Force (BRTF) and the Science Advisory Team (SAT) do not appear to be private” entities, or bodies that are…
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Supes ask Navy for delay, congressional hearings on coast
Mendocino County Supervisors voted 4-1 on Tuesday to ask the U.S. Navy to again postpone its final deadline for public comment and to hold congressional hearings on the West Coast about plans to expand its training and testing off Northern California, Oregon and Washington. Meeting at Fort Bragg Town Hall, the supervisors heard from about…
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Locals protest PG&E”s SmartMeter
Nadia Borysen of Redwood Valley brought her infant child, Bodhi, to the podium Tuesday to ask the Board of Supervisors to stop PG&E from replacing the county”s mechanical meters with “SmartMeter” devices. The board met at Fort Bragg Town Hall. “We live in the countryside to be away from cell phones, from baby monitors and…
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Supes ask Navy for delay, congressional hearings on coast
Mendocino County Supervisors voted 4-1 on Tuesday to ask the U.S. Navy to again postpone its final deadline for public comment and to hold congressional hearings on the West Coast about plans to expand its training and testing off Northern California, Oregon and Washington. Meeting at Fort Bragg Town Hall, the supervisors heard from about…
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Oct. 12 deadline given for Navy testing plans
After two years of time extensions and a missed deadline, the U.S. Navy”s plans for expanded training and weapons testing off the far Northern California, Oregon and Washington coasts are about to become final. A required final 30-day comment period on the Northwest Training Range Complex Final Environmental Impact Statement began Sept. 10. The public…
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City asks state to approve local MLPA plan as-is
The Fort Bragg City Council on Monday night unanimously asked the State of California to approve, not modify, the results of seven months of work by 32 regional stakeholders as part of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative process. “People in this area … came to terms with this state law,” said Councilman Jere Melo.…
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Green” research vessel studies San Andreas off Fort Bragg
The San Andreas Fault, probably the subject of more disaster movies than scientific studies so far, has yielded an answer to one controversy with more discoveries being made off Mendocino daily. “It”s surprising but the offshore area of the San Andreas Fault has never been mapped and there has been very little study of it,”…
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Fort Bragg school bands await their chance to perform
ir chance to perform By FRANK HARTZELL, Staff Writer — Among the esoteric references in the song, “American Pie,” is the line “the players tried to take the field but the marching band refused to yield.” In Fort Bragg, it”s the marching band, along with other school bands, which are currently unable to take to…
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Locals recommend ocean closures start at Ten Mile Beach
The Lost Coast will stay mostly lost and pristine for generations to come if the recommendations of the Regional Stakeholders Group (RSG) are followed. New “ocean parks” should be concentrated in the area from Ten Mile Beach to the western tip of Cape Mendocino, the RSG has recommended in its final report to the private…
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Fort Bragg school jobs saved for now, more cuts loom
Bus route consolidation in the City of Fort Bragg to a single route are among the cost-cutting measures enacted by the Fort Bragg Unified School District to start the 2010-2011 school year. There have also been staff reductions, but those may be temporarily tempered by a federal rescue package. But the temporary adjustments can”t change…
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New Fort Bragg nonprofit promotes careers, recycling
Tony Anderson”s motive was money. But doing recycling has led him to much, much more. “I was cleaning up after the Mendocino Fourth of July Parade,” Anderson said. “People were applauding. I thought they were applauding the float, but when I asked, they said You”re keeping our town and our environment green.”” The gung-ho Anderson…
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New Fort Bragg nonprofit promotes careers, recycling
Tony Anderson”s motive was money. But doing recycling has led him to much, much more. “I was cleaning up after the Mendocino Fourth of July Parade,” Anderson said. “People were applauding. I thought they were applauding the float, but when I asked, they said You”re keeping our town and our environment green.”” The gung-ho Anderson…
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