NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Season of Sharing: Food Bank serves food while clients give lessons in living
A homeless man I encounter at the south end of Franklin Street seems to think I”ve been taking pictures at the Fort Bragg Food Bank for years, not as part of the newspapers” Season of Sharing series but because I”m a sinister agent of some sort, perhaps for the FBI. Although I had never pointed…
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Navy sets info meeting about whales, weapons
Are gray whales on the decline? Will new, increased naval training off the California, Oregon and Washington coasts make matters worse for the beloved migratory giants? And how about simultaneously increased training activities off Alaska? Many locals made comments and were involved in the public process over the Northwest Training Range Complex, the offshore area…
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Season of Sharing: Food Bank serves food while clients give lessons in living
A homeless man I encounter at the south end of Franklin Street seems to think I”ve been taking pictures at the Fort Bragg Food Bank for years, not as part of the newspapers” Season of Sharing series but because I”m a sinister agent of some sort, perhaps for the FBI. Although I had never pointed…
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Food Bank serves food fit for a king, but not always the store
On Thanksgiving week, my weekly tale about my imbedded Season of Sharing reporting from within the Fort Bragg Food Bank simply had to be about the food itself — and giving thanks. I”m truly thankful that four years ago when I was assigned this series, I made the offhand decision to actually apply to be…
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Art Center considering axing spring classes, keeping gallery open
The Mendocino Art Center is losing more than $15,000 per month and is now forced to seriously consider a plan to cancel spring classes and reorganize how the nonprofit does business, board president Jean Cunnington told an audience of 32 people Monday night. Board members said the organization will consider going into “hibernation” on Dec.…
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Food Bank serves food fit for a king, but not always the store
On Thanksgiving week, my weekly tale about my imbedded Season of Sharing reporting from within the Fort Bragg Food Bank simply had to be about the food itself — and giving thanks. I”m truly thankful that four years ago when I was assigned this series, I made the offhand decision to actually apply to be…
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Food Bank volunteers find fun, power and history in helping
Donna Biocca, 82, began volunteering at the Fort Bragg Food Bank 31 years ago, at the start of the 1980s, often dubbed the “decade of greed.” Of course, that nickname ended up being akin to “The War to End All Wars” for World War I. While America”s maddened overconsumption only got worse in the nineties…
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Food Bank volunteers find fun, power and history in helping
Donna Biocca, 82, began volunteering at the Fort Bragg Food Bank 31 years ago, at the start of the 1980s, often dubbed the “decade of greed.” Of course, that nickname ended up being akin to “The War to End All Wars” for World War I. While America”s maddened overconsumption only got worse in the nineties…
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Food Bank volunteers find fun, power and history in helping
Donna Biocca, 82, began volunteering at the Fort Bragg Food Bank 31 years ago, at the start of the 1980s, often dubbed the “decade of greed.” Of course, that nickname ended up being akin to “The War to End All Wars” for World War I. While America”s maddened overconsumption only got worse in the nineties…
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Federal stimulus chicken, city grant a boon for Food Bank
The good news at the Fort Bragg Food Bank this year can be summed up in the words of a famous French queen: Let them eat chicken! Well, that”s not strictly what she said. But when we write about the Food Bank each holiday season, we try to provide a fun twist to the daily…
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Federal stimulus chicken, city grant a boon for Food Bank
The good news at the Fort Bragg Food Bank this year can be summed up in the words of a famous French queen: Let them eat chicken! Well, that”s not strictly what she said. But when we write about the Food Bank each holiday season, we try to provide a fun twist to the daily…
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Area residents travel to Fortuna for MLPA task force decision
More than a dozen Mendocino Coast residents traveled to Fortuna to attend a 10-hour meeting Monday, most to tell the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative”s Blue Ribbon Task Force to approve, not change, a locally originated ocean protection plan. Monday was the task force”s day to sit and listen, first to state officials and scientists…
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Area residents travel to Fortuna for MLPA task force decision
More than a dozen Mendocino Coast residents traveled to Fortuna to attend a 10-hour meeting Monday, most to tell the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative”s Blue Ribbon Task Force to approve, not change, a locally originated ocean protection plan. Monday was the task force”s day to sit and listen, first to state officials and scientists…
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Good news allows school to restore cuts
Eight times every week, the sounds of silence at Dana Gray Elementary will be replaced with the return of windy toots of kids playing the recorder, after a move last week by the Fort Bragg Unified School District board. OK, there is never really silence at Dana Gray, but thanks to the last round of…
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Good news allows school to restore cuts
Eight times every week, the sounds of silence at Dana Gray Elementary will be replaced with the return of windy toots of kids playing the recorder, after a move last week by the Fort Bragg Unified School District board. OK, there is never really silence at Dana Gray, but thanks to the last round of…
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Navy extends comments on military training
The comment period for the U.S. Navy plan to increase military training exercises off Washington, Oregon and Northern California, has been extended until Saturday, Oct. 24. Congressman Mike Thompson spoke with the undersecretary of the Navy and the comment period on the NWTRC was extended, his office confirmed. The NWTRC testing area includes 122,400 nautical…
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Transition Towns offers Otis Johnson Park workday among 10 Climate Change events
A brand new retaining wall covering an entire 40-foot hillside created from materials found in Otis Johnson Wilderness Park is one of the restoration efforts that will be visible at workdays scheduled for the next two Saturdays. Mendocino Transition Towns” “10 Days, 10+ Ways to Reverse Climate Change, Beginning on 10-10-10,” offers a day for…
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Transition Towns offers Otis Johnson Park workday among 10 Climate Change events
A brand new retaining wall covering an entire 40-foot hillside created from materials found in Otis Johnson Wilderness Park is one of the restoration efforts that will be visible at workdays scheduled for the next two Saturdays. Mendocino Transition Towns” “10 Days, 10+ Ways to Reverse Climate Change, Beginning on 10-10-10,” offers a day for…
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Supervisors support MLPAI stakeholders” map
The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted 4-1 to join numerous other governments, including the Fort Bragg City Council, in supporting the Regional Stakeholders Groups” single proposed map of new marine protected areas under the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative. The stakeholders” plan is for most new marine protected areas to be concentrated between…
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Sacramento judge declares MLPAI bodies are public, not private
In a victory for advocates of transparent government, a Sacramento judge ruled last Friday that Marine Life Protection Act Initiative bodies are state agencies that cannot deny lawful requests for public records. “The Blue Ribbon Task Force (BRTF) and the Science Advisory Team (SAT) do not appear to be private” entities, or bodies that are…
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