NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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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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Bush remains, six resign from Senior Center”s board
After two weeks of upheaval featuring the unsuccessful firing of the executive director and the departure of six of the nine members of the Redwood Coast Senior Center board of directors, board member Bob Bushansky promised a better future. “We want to move forward in a positive way. We must pledge to volunteers, staff and…
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Slain Fort Bragg Dodgers fan remembered as fun, friendly
For a Fort Bragg extended family, what started as a fun birthday trip to a ballgame has become a terrible education in broadcast news, the justice system and the meaning of real friends. Fort Bragg resident Jonathan Denver was stabbed and died early last Thursday, while enjoying birthday drinks with his dad after a Wednesday…
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6 resign from Senior Center board, Bush remains ED
Six of the nine members of the board of directors of the Redwood Coast Senior Center had resigned by the end of Fridays meeting. More than 150 people turned out, the vast majority to support Executive Director Charles Bush. A show of hands indicated more than 90 percent of those on hand came to support…
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Senior Center vote to fire Bush baffles all
On Wednesday, Sept. 18, the Redwood Coast Senior Center Board voted to fire Executive Director Charles Bush. On Tuesday, Sept. 24, Bush was at work in his office, the thrift shop was open and lunch preparations were underway. Last week, he wasn”t sure where he would be today, having been told the board of directors…
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Bush on the job today at Senior Center
Monday is never a good day, but this is ridiculous. Redwood Coast Senior Center Executive Director Charles Bush went back to work today, Sept. 23, after a 4-2-2 vote last week by the board of directors to fire him. Some of those board members have since said Bush was not actually fired. He”s baffled, as…
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Senior Center vote to fire Bush baffles all
On Wednesday, Sept. 18, the Redwood Coast Senior Center Board voted to fire Executive Director Charles Bush. The vote has baffled and divided the community and confounded several board members who voted. Some board members insist Bush, who has been on the job for about five years, was not actually fired. But they can”t or…
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