NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Supes OK Haul Road project; appeal expected
Opponents of the $750,000-plus Haul Road removal project at Ten Mile plan to appeal the 3-2 vote this week by the Board of Supervisors, which gave a conditional green light to the project. State Parks” dune restoration project involves removing asphalt and gravel base in three segments of the former Georgia Pacific Haul Road, totaling…
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Haul Road appeal held to Aug. 26
Four hours not enough time for Supes to consider appeal Facing a packed house at Fort Bragg Town Hall where every seat was taken and the aisles were all full with 50 standing people, someone asked that everyone move up so that more people could get in from outside. Mendocino County Board of Supervisors Chairman…
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Supes to hear Ten Mile Haul Road appeal Tuesday
Loren Rex stood on the mostly sand-covered remnant of the old haul road, looking back over the 15-minute difficult hike it took to get from the north end of Ward Avenue to the first road remnant. It seemed impossible there once was a paved road in the open expanse of beach between these two once-connected…
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MCTV abandons Laurel St. building; Footlighters says its willing to share
Family pictures topped desks which held phones, computers and outboxes full of important looking papers. Towering shelves overflowed with video cameras, tripods and dozens of specialized gadgets sprouting countless wires. It looked like the laid off Mendocino Coast Television staff would be right back instead of never. Background Footlighters Little Theatre, which has won its…
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MCTV”s board members speak
Mendocino Coast Television has ended its own existence, blaming the loss of their building and their lawsuit on the Footlighters play company. The plug has been pulled on public access TV for the Mendocino Coast. In April, Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Jeanine Nadel ruled that MCTV must return the Footlighters building on Laurel Street…
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MCTV dissolves itself; local public access TV to cease
Mendocino Coast Television has voted to dissolve their nonprofit organization, after losing a lawsuit that found they had never really owned their Laurel Street headquarters and ordered them to pay back rent. The dissolution means the end to 7-year-old MCTV, said its executive director, Elizabeth Swenson. Public access was provided for nearly three decades before…
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Salmon, fireworks get rave reviews
The 42nd Annual World”s Largest Salmon Barbecue avoided both long lines and dry fish while serving 2,347 paid meals in sunny, warm weather on Saturday in Noyo Harbor. Commercial and recreational fishermen are having their best years in perhaps a decade. Attendance was flat at the barbecue but ratings of the pink fish, beer, hot…
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Public says no, County says yes, to haul road plan
Despite a nearly unanimous “no” from the public, the Mendocino County Coastal Zone Administrator said “yes” to State Parks” $750,000 plan to rip out the northern remnants of the old Haul Road along Ten Mile Beach. The Westport Municipal Advisory Council has appealed the approval to the Board of Supervisors. Like a meeting last summer…
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What can the City do for the Skunk Train?
Fort Bragg Mayor Dave Turner says the City is willing to do whatever it can for the Skunk Train. He took umbrage with statements printed in this newspaper by Skunk Train boss Robert Pinoli that the City had not reached out to the extent Willits had. The Skunk”s tunnel number 1, located under Sherwood Road…
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99 people donate to Skunk rescue
Once upon a time a 3-year-old boy from the Anderson Valley rode the Skunk Train and dreamed the dream of countless other kids to be a conductor, in his blue suit, in charge of the fabulous iron machine. Naturally, the boy was impressed by the big huffing and clanging iron dragon when he came for…
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Veterans honor fallen comrades
Paul Nardecchia served in the United States Marine Corps and came to Rose Memorial Park in Fort Bragg Monday morning to remember with other veterans. “I lost a lot of good buddies in Vietnam and this is my way to remember and honor them,” said Nardecchia, who moved to the area nine months ago and…
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MCTV, Footlighters will meet to discuss future of building
An unlikely savior showed up at the May 16 Mendocino Coast Television board meeting with an offer to provide space to rent for $1,250 per month. “After hearing of the issues presented after the court judgment for the Footlighters of Fort Bragg against Mendocino Coast Television, I have decided to make an offer towards helping…
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MCTV focuses on finding new digs
The news that Mendocino Coast Television must give its building back to Footlighters stunned supporters of local cable access television and has created both positive suggestions and acrimony. Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Jeanine Nadel has ruled that MCTV must give back the Footlighters building at 248 E. Laurel St. in Fort Bragg and pay…
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Judge gives Footlighters its building back
Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Jeanine Nadel has ruled that MCTV must give back the Fort Bragg Footlighters building and pay the theater company $36,315. The two nonprofits have been battling in court since 2009 over a decision made in 2006 to give the big white building at 248 E. Laurel St. away. Footlighters formed…
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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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