NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Food Bank teaches reporter, clients to eat better
Seeing the cornucopia spread out in front of me, my friend Suellen Elm-McGrath was surprised this haul came from one visit to the Fort Bragg Food Bank. “You have to tell me the secret time to go to the Food Bank to score the really good stuff,” she joked. But myself and Food Bank volunteer…
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Food Bank gives window to worlds of disability
My tales about people I meet at the Fort Bragg Food Bank could consist only of loving great-grandmothers, small business people who can”t quite make ends meet and wholesome families struggling with low wages, unemployment and foreclosure. Sad and inspiring stories are abundant. Or, the portrait could be of lifelong homeless, the occasional free loader…
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MOCA hopes to awaken local plan for marine reserves
On Feb. 1, an interactive map showing new areas of the ocean off Mendocino County to close to fishing is “due.” By Nov. 30, nominations for the local people who wish to serve on a local stakeholders panel are also due In an effort to complete this “homework” assigned by the Marine Life Protection Act…
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Food Bank needs more to feed more hungry people this year
It”s not another “Star Wars” sequel, it”s not DMV on Thursday afternoon or the post office at Christmas. This is the line for the Fort Bragg Food Bank. Lines, very long ones at times, were proof enough to me that there are many more hungry people than ever this year. But I asked Food Bank…
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Ocean monsters inspire hope among local fishermen
Local fishermen seem to have been given a gift — a rich fishing season without environmental consequences. The giver? Humboldt or “jumbo” squid, true monsters of the deep, which have arrived mysteriously off the coast of the entire Pacific Northwest. In fact, fishermen might very well be doing the ocean ecosystem a favor by catching…
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MLPAI staff explains why timeline inflexible, but boundaries can change
Staff Writer The Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPAI) will hold a public workshop at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at the C.V. Starr Community Center in Fort Bragg. Organizers have changed the format from the last workshop to allow direct public input. They also have separated the workshop in Fort Bragg from others.…
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Peterson lawsuit lands $791,000 libel damages award
A jury has awarded $791,000 to three locals for libel damages caused by the creator of the board game Pirateer. The verdict may finally mark an end to what was once a Mendocino Coast business success story. Scott Peterson ended up losing the lawsuit he launched against former members of the board of directors of…
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Peterson lawsuit lands $791,000 libel damages award
A jury has awarded $791,000 to three locals for libel damages caused by the creator of the board game Pirateer. The verdict may finally mark an end to what was once a Mendocino Coast business success story. Scott Peterson ended up losing the lawsuit he launched against former members of the board of directors of…
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Peterson lawsuit lands $791,000 libel damages award
A jury has awarded $791,000 to three locals for libel damages caused by the creator of the board game Pirateer. The verdict may finally mark an end to what was once a Mendocino Coast business success story. Scott Peterson ended up losing the lawsuit he launched against former members of the board of directors of…
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MLPAI: AG ruling is good news
Marine reserves created under the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPAI) should ban more than fishing, the California Attorney General”s Office said in a memo last week. Locals had questioned why only fishing has been targeted in the current MLPAI process. Major ocean industrialization proposals such as wave energy, oil drilling and fiber optic pipelines…
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MLPAI organizers define 12-month local process
Mendocino Coast ocean lovers were given until January to come up with “external proposals” for the creation of areas off limits to fishing or partially closed to fishing. That was the big change announced Tuesday night by organizers of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPAI) at a meeting remotely broadcast to the C.V. Starr…
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Locals asked to create offshore park proposals by January 2010
Melissa Miller-Henson of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative told a Fort Bragg crowd Tuesday night that the process used in other regions has been changed for the local (Point Arena to Oregon border) region. In all the other regions, the process started with the formation of an official “local stakeholders group.” That group”s recommendations…
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MLPAI organizers define 12-month local process
Mendocino Coast ocean lovers were given until January to come up with “external proposals” for the creation of areas off limits to fishing or partially closed to fishing. That was the big change announced Tuesday night by organizers of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPAI) at a meeting remotely broadcast to the C.V. Starr…
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Summers Lane city reservoir proposal worries neighbors
Staff Writer The City of Fort Bragg is planning a 14.7 million-gallon reservoir on city property at the end of Summers Lane in an effort to satisfy part of an ongoing need for city water storage. The reservoir plans worry neighbor Jim Celeri, whose home and rhododendron nursery are located on the downstream side of…
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Summers Lane city reservoir proposal worries neighbors
Staff Writer The City of Fort Bragg is planning a 14.7 million-gallon reservoir on city property at the end of Summers Lane in an effort to satisfy part of an ongoing need for city water storage. The reservoir plans worry neighbor Jim Celeri, whose home and rhododendron nursery are located on the downstream side of…
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Protected areas may help abalone, but confuse people
(This fifth article in the continuing series on the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative will show how our area has protected its abalone in the past from both poachers and big outside interests, and will identify evidence that Marine Life Protected Areas will be good for abalone.) There is solid scientific evidence that the marine…
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Ab poachers may like MLPA”s closed areas
Sharp-eyed Department of Fish and Game wardens used my last article about the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative to catch abalone poachers right where I bumped into them while walking my dogs. The wardens recognized the modus operandi from my description of a lookout and several guys in the water, went back to where I…
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Protected areas may help abalone, but confuse people
(This fifth article in the continuing series on the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative will show how our area has protected its abalone in the past from both poachers and big outside interests, and will identify evidence that Marine Life Protected Areas will be good for abalone.) There is solid scientific evidence that the marine…
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Ab poachers may like MLPA”s closed areas
Sharp-eyed Department of Fish and Game wardens used my last article about the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative to catch abalone poachers right where I bumped into them while walking my dogs. The wardens recognized the modus operandi from my description of a lookout and several guys in the water, went back to where I…
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MLPAI ocean privatization a ground breaker
(In part 4 of this series on the Marine Life Protection Act, we look into how the MLPA Initiative fits into the fast evolving history of environmental privatization and how the successes and failures of that movement might impact the Mendocino Coast) The Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPAI), which arrived in Fort Bragg this…
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