NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Season of Sharing raises $34,184 for Food Bank
The old timers say nobody works hard in Fort Bragg anymore. Some minds might change if they went on Tuesday with myself and Lance Nelson, head of the trucking fleet for the Fort Bragg Food Bank. Six days a week Nelson, or Food Bank driver Joe Odegaard stop at Harvest Market and Safeway for a…
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Firm seeks local actors for TV show without TV
About a dozen actors are sought for “Sundays,” a unique Internet show to be filmed on the Mendocino Coast this spring and summer. The creator, writer and director/producer of “Sundays” is local resident Forrest Naylor and Fog Line Films. Naylor has several quite successful films that he has written, directed and produced, including “Calla Lily,”…
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2010 in review: MLPAI brings locals together, despite controversy
A new linked chain of ocean areas where fishing will be banned or restricted was created during a tumultuous year of Marine Life Protection Act Initiative meetings. Headlines were made by large protests by Indian tribes in Fort Bragg and Eureka, and a Fort Bragg man was arrested for trying to film and speak at…
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Food Bank turkey gives, and gives some more, on Christmas
Most everybody approves of helping the Fort Bragg Food Bank in its mission of feeding kids and elders and putting to use good food that might otherwise go to waste. But being helped is a dramatically different story, one that I think is key to understanding long term efforts to repower our own community. Many…
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Locals to Navy: Don”t assault whales with sonar
For more than five hours last Thursday, Dec. 16, a large and often boisterous crowd at Fort Bragg”s Portuguese Hall criticized the U.S. Navy”s plans for increased training off the Pacific Northwest. At the request of Congressman Mike Thompson, the Navy sent representatives to both Eureka and Fort Bragg last week, although Fort Bragg is…
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Noyo Harbor District mulling fee hikes
Will higher rents help float the Noyo Harbor District”s sinking finances? The district will consider hiking the rent on users of its facilities, such as the picnic grounds in South Noyo Harbor. When Stan Anderson, chair of the 2010 year”s Mendocino Area Parks Association (MAPA), asked to use that area for the third year in…
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Noyo Bowl owner offers community the chance to save 50-year-old alley
Noyo Bowl owner Angelene Leist has a challenge to the community: Come up with a plan to continue that distinctive crack of balls hitting pins at the 50-year-old bowling alley by Jan. 15. Leist has been in the process of selling the north Fort Bragg alley to Calvary Chapel for use as a church facility…
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Food Bank, community help keep Christmas for children
There were toys, toys and more toys, being seized by kids. There were dour dads and dads playing with sock puppets. And it was still a week until Christmas. The Fort Bragg Food Bank has been giving away toys and Christmas joy for the past two weeks. Christmas week the community”s food pantry is packed…
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New MAC board seeks to match $10k, spring classes now on track
A new Mendocino Art Center board of directors promised greater openness and maximum fundraising energy and commitment at the Dec. 15 meeting of the financially troubled nonprofit. Gone since the last regular board meeting were MAC board members Mike Dell”Ara, Richard Miller, president Jean Cunnington, Jan Bell and Sarah Logan. Also gone was all talk…
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Food Bank, Children”s Fund striving to fill children”s needs
There are almost always a few kids in line at the Fort Bragg Food Bank. Unlike the adults, they never appear glum. They don”t look uneasily around for someone they may not want to see. Some jump in with joy. Others have parents who don”t allow playing in the close quarters of the food line…
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Could a sales pitch lessen the magic of giving to Food Bank?
In 1995 our publisher picked the Food Bank as the main charitable effort of our community newspapers, meaning the real reason for my writing about it for eight weeks is to raise money. Others might see a conflict in that, but I don”t. As the journalist assigned to write about the Food Bank, I have…
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Could a sales pitch lessen the magic of giving to Food Bank?
In 1995 our publisher picked the Food Bank as the main charitable effort of our community newspapers, meaning the real reason for my writing about it for eight weeks is to raise money. Others might see a conflict in that, but I don”t. As the journalist assigned to write about the Food Bank, I have…
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Could a sales pitch lessen the magic of giving to Food Bank?
In 1995 our publisher picked the Food Bank as the main charitable effort of our community newspapers, meaning the real reason for my writing about it for eight weeks is to raise money. Others might see a conflict in that, but I don”t. As the journalist assigned to write about the Food Bank, I have…
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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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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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