NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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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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Hunger, Food Bank story depends on who you talk to
In the past several years of telling firsthand stories from inside the Fort Bragg Food Bank, we have sought people who literally embody the story of Season of Sharing to tell it for us. We hit the jackpot in the pre-Thanksgiving rush with Toddia Ouspensky. She is an energetic local woman who comes to the…
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Food Bank gives and gets everything possible for clients
Outside the front door of my warehouse at 900 N. Franklin, sat a man on my bench conversing with himself, rocking from side to side. As I walked by, he told me it was wrong to put a leash on the neck of my dog. Next to him was a bag from my neighbor, the…
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Fort Bragg Food Bank looking for quite a few good birds
The weather has been summery and everyone was relaxed at the Fort Bragg Food Bank on visits there this week, but there were signs this won”t last. In just seven days, the Food Bank needs to put more than 10,000 pounds of turkey on the plates of local people in need. The biggest shopping day…
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Redwood Health Club still in foreclosure limbo
Dr. Richard Miller”s deal to buy the Redwood Health Club has fallen through, but his group, and others, remain interested in reviving what had been a community institution since the late 1970s. Savings Bank of Mendocino County, which foreclosed on the failed business, accepted an offer made by Miller and Mike Dell”Ara; Miller then hired…
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Paul Bunyan Thrift moves on 50th anniversary
Parents and Friends Inc. (PFI) is in on the move, which has brought a bright new thrift store location at 350 Main St. and a proposed locally-owned pharmacy at the old PFI location of the Furniture Annex on Cypress Street. PFI has combined its Furniture Annex and Thrift Store into one big store in the…
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Harbor District receives $2 million tsunami damage check
Nearly 18 months after the Japanese tsunami whacked the ends off three of its docks, Noyo Harbor District has a final settlement of $2.072 million in the bank. Navigators Insurance had already paid about $600,000 of that amount to make repairs such as the end of two docks. The work can”t start until next summer,…
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Richard Miller leads Redwood Health Club reopen effort
As hundreds of young people swam, exercised and lined up for the massive sliding board at C.V. Starr Aquatic Center for the free reopening day on July 28, Dr. Richard Miller was contemplating his proposed purchase of Fort Bragg”s oldest health club across town. Miller has made an offer to buy the foreclosed and shuttered…
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Inglenook crowd disapproves of Dunes rehab plan
When the Hollywood hit movie, “The Russians are Coming” was filmed along the intact Haul Road in the 1960s, there were no tall dunes, said California State Parks Senior Environmental Scientist Renee Pasquinelli. Pasquinelli tried to convince a skeptical Fort Bragg Grange packed house Monday night that removal of the Haul Road and invasive European…
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FERC rejects wave energy project
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has denied a Southern California company”s bid to develop wave energy off the town of Mendocino, while at the same time redoing its national guidelines for wave energy development. Eight years ago, two competing federal agencies made Fort Bragg the center of their wave energy universes, coming to the…
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