NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Flipping fish for free to benefit salmon restoration
Fort Bragg Advocate-News/Staff Fort Bragg”s favorite pink fish has made a dramatic comeback in 2012, celebrated by the biggest crowd at the World”s Largest Salmon Barbecue in the last five years. While estimated king salmon returning numbers leaped from the low thousands to over a million, barbecue attendance growth has been much slower, but steady.…
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Salmon barbecue remembers Melo, funds young scientists
Fort Bragg Adcoate-News/Staff When the Mendocino Unified School District board cut the SONAR program”s budget in half, the teachers came to the Salmon Restoration Association (SRA) for help. They knew the SRA was already a supporter of educational programs that benefit budding young scientists, as well as migratory fish. The SRA agreed to pay half…
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Truck brings smiles and victuals
Fort Bragg Advocate-News/Staff A new big bobtail delivery truck will allow the Fort Bragg Food Bank to carry a lot more food and share with other food banks around the county and nearby areas. Thanks to the gifts of generous community members, the Food Bank was able to buy the $105,000 truck. “This truck is…
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Redwood Health Club
Fort Bragg Advocate-News/Staff Slim hopes for the survival of Fort Bragg”s Redwood Health Club rest in the hands of long-time rival, Larry Hinson, owner of the Mendocino Sports Club. “We were unable to work out financing with the bank. But we are still trying with private financing [and] would love to save it” said Hinson.…
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Vet Rep now on the job
Fort Bragg dvocate-News/Staff New Mendocino County Veterans Services Representative Ulyses Lopez knows a lot about serving his country. While still at Fort Bragg High School, he joined the U.S Army and served in Iraq. The proud veteran and member of the FBHS class of 2002 returned home to his wife and two children. Even after…
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Future uncertain for band and director
Fort Bragg-Advocate News/Staff On Monday morning, Cotton Auditorium”s band and drama room had the atmosphere of a football locker room after a homecoming victory. Music and voices erupted from everywhere in the room, which is hidden behind the massive stage. Kids chatted to each other and even this reporter about Friday night”s concert. “They know…
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Students help fight bullying
The top of his underpants was showing when the fourth grader went on the playground. A bigger fifth grader first humiliated him with words, then moved in to give him a wedgie. Fourth and fifth graders in the Steps to Respect program sat in a circle with high school students and young adults as everybody…
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Noyo River dredge spoils will go to mill site coastal trails
The Noyo Harbor District has searched everywhere in a 200-mile radius for a place to dump the mountain of dredge spoil sand that now stands at the mouth of Noyo River. Now it has found a home for some just a few hundred yards away. Noyo Harbor District and the City of Fort Bragg have…
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Historic hotels still recovering from 2008 crash
Fort Bragg Advocate-News Staff Writer Missed your chance to spend a cool $8 million on the Heritage House? A half-dozen once-grand hotels are now on the market, most at lower prices than in past years. Less than a mile north of Heritage House on Highway 1 is the Seafoam Lodge, where the owners also took…
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Positive programs beat bullying
Fort Bragg Advocate-News Staff Writer The towering restored 1930s speakers at Cotton Auditorium boomed 2012 hits like “We are Young” by the band “Fun.” Teachers, some who wore special Chuck Taylor sneakers decorated with sparkles, hopped on the grand old stage to dance in a flashmob. Kids were surprised, laughed hard and joined in, soon…
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Union official; mental health privatization should be more open
Fort Bragg Advocate-News Staff Writer The picture of how the county hopes to privatize its mental health services is emerging from behind closed doors, prompting hopes the process will be more open as it unravels. At the May 15 Board of Supervisors meeting a long discussed Request for Proposals (RFP) is ready to be presented,…
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City”s Otis Johnson Park gets six-figure facelift
Fort Bragg Advocate-News Staff Writer Eighth grade math teacher Nick Tedesco left his Arizona classroom to join Americorps and make a difference in the environment. Sunday he led a daylong Americorps workday project at the City of Fort Bragg”s Otis Johnson Wilderness Park. He enjoyed the cool sunny weather and admired the improvements to the…
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Lighthouse, county, Hospitality House expanding homeless services
There is a hopping new dinner place in Fort Bragg where a full meal, shared with lots of friends, costs about $1.60 per night. “This is a place where you can eat very well for very little and where everybody can hold their head up. It”s the anti-soup kitchen, kitchen,” said Rex Gressett, one of…
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Noyo Harbor still waits for insurance sum
Whole towns in Japan have been rebuilt while the Noyo Harbor District waits for insurance money from damages caused by the March 11, 2011 tsunami. Harbor commissioners expressed frustration and bemusement at last week”s meeting that they are still waiting for payment from Navigators Insurance more than a year after a wave surge wrenched the…
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Hospitals, clinics prepare for mental health privatization
Fort Bragg Advocate-News Hospitals and clinics in Mendocino County are involved in a behind-the-scenes process both to recreate mental health care and respond to Mendocino County”s efforts to privatize mental health services. At the request of the Mendocino County Mental Health Board, Susan Era and Sharon Kichli provided information about the new group at MHB”s…
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Will millions of salmon bless Fort Bragg”s recreational fishing?
Fort Bragg Advocate-News Reports of the death of the Fort Bragg salmon fishing industry may have been greatly exaggerated. Federal biologists are predicting that a good old days crowd of millions of king salmon will return to the Sacramento and Klamath River systems this year. Recreational salmon season started Saturday and is expected to last…
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DFG to review ocean parks impacts
New North Coast marine protected areas could cost commercial fishermen $278,000 in future years, a new economic analysis presented to the California Fish & Game Commission shows. At the April 11 Eureka meeting the state agency, the analysis will be reviewed; it will be the last meeting on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR). At…
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Groups boycotting Navy meetings
With a dozen environmental groups boycotting Navy scoping hearings in the Pacific Northwest, some locals weren”t sure it was prudent to come to Friday”s Fort Bragg Town Hall event. “That”s why I didn”t sign in,” said George Reinhardt, who was one of several people curious about what was going on but who didn”t want to…
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Homelessness intervention letters sought
One local homeless man is known for charging out into traffic, lost in a fantasy world. A different homeless young man ended up in the emergency room last year with congestive heart failure and is now unable to work as a laborer. His disability and medical costs are being borne by taxpayers. Other homeless men…
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Jere Melo Foundation promotes fight against marijuana garden trespassers
During the search for double-murder suspect Aaron Bassler last summer, Chris Kelly, California program director of The Conservation Fund, said trespass marijuana gardens presented a more permanent and scary issue. “It”s a terrible problem for all the landowners,” he said. At the “Take Back Our Forests” public forum on Friday, March 30 at 6 p.m.…
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