NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Supes ask Navy for delay, congressional hearings on coast
Mendocino County Supervisors voted 4-1 on Tuesday to ask the U.S. Navy to again postpone its final deadline for public comment and to hold congressional hearings on the West Coast about plans to expand its training and testing off Northern California, Oregon and Washington. Meeting at Fort Bragg Town Hall, the supervisors heard from about…
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Locals protest PG&E”s SmartMeter
Nadia Borysen of Redwood Valley brought her infant child, Bodhi, to the podium Tuesday to ask the Board of Supervisors to stop PG&E from replacing the county”s mechanical meters with “SmartMeter” devices. The board met at Fort Bragg Town Hall. “We live in the countryside to be away from cell phones, from baby monitors and…
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Supes ask Navy for delay, congressional hearings on coast
Mendocino County Supervisors voted 4-1 on Tuesday to ask the U.S. Navy to again postpone its final deadline for public comment and to hold congressional hearings on the West Coast about plans to expand its training and testing off Northern California, Oregon and Washington. Meeting at Fort Bragg Town Hall, the supervisors heard from about…
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Oct. 12 deadline given for Navy testing plans
After two years of time extensions and a missed deadline, the U.S. Navy”s plans for expanded training and weapons testing off the far Northern California, Oregon and Washington coasts are about to become final. A required final 30-day comment period on the Northwest Training Range Complex Final Environmental Impact Statement began Sept. 10. The public…
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City asks state to approve local MLPA plan as-is
The Fort Bragg City Council on Monday night unanimously asked the State of California to approve, not modify, the results of seven months of work by 32 regional stakeholders as part of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative process. “People in this area … came to terms with this state law,” said Councilman Jere Melo.…
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Green” research vessel studies San Andreas off Fort Bragg
The San Andreas Fault, probably the subject of more disaster movies than scientific studies so far, has yielded an answer to one controversy with more discoveries being made off Mendocino daily. “It”s surprising but the offshore area of the San Andreas Fault has never been mapped and there has been very little study of it,”…
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Fort Bragg school bands await their chance to perform
ir chance to perform By FRANK HARTZELL, Staff Writer — Among the esoteric references in the song, “American Pie,” is the line “the players tried to take the field but the marching band refused to yield.” In Fort Bragg, it”s the marching band, along with other school bands, which are currently unable to take to…
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Locals recommend ocean closures start at Ten Mile Beach
The Lost Coast will stay mostly lost and pristine for generations to come if the recommendations of the Regional Stakeholders Group (RSG) are followed. New “ocean parks” should be concentrated in the area from Ten Mile Beach to the western tip of Cape Mendocino, the RSG has recommended in its final report to the private…
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Fort Bragg school jobs saved for now, more cuts loom
Bus route consolidation in the City of Fort Bragg to a single route are among the cost-cutting measures enacted by the Fort Bragg Unified School District to start the 2010-2011 school year. There have also been staff reductions, but those may be temporarily tempered by a federal rescue package. But the temporary adjustments can”t change…
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New Fort Bragg nonprofit promotes careers, recycling
Tony Anderson”s motive was money. But doing recycling has led him to much, much more. “I was cleaning up after the Mendocino Fourth of July Parade,” Anderson said. “People were applauding. I thought they were applauding the float, but when I asked, they said You”re keeping our town and our environment green.”” The gung-ho Anderson…
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New Fort Bragg nonprofit promotes careers, recycling
Tony Anderson”s motive was money. But doing recycling has led him to much, much more. “I was cleaning up after the Mendocino Fourth of July Parade,” Anderson said. “People were applauding. I thought they were applauding the float, but when I asked, they said You”re keeping our town and our environment green.”” The gung-ho Anderson…
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Former presidential candidate”s appearance prompts follow-up meeting
To this reporter, David Cobb”s July 16 appearance at Fort Bragg Town Hall looked like a campaign stop and an exciting potential news lead. Cobb was the Green Party”s presidential candidate in 2008 and now lives in Humboldt County. He had moved to a hot spot of Progressive politics, where a Green could actually win…
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Fishing closures unclear MLPAI”s final month
After more than 40 hours of meetings in just a week”s time, the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPAI) process in Fort Bragg ended last Friday without producing the expected map of proposed closed areas off the Mendocino Coast. That frustrated the two dozen members of the Regional Stakeholders Group (RSG) on hand, several of…
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Native Americans protest MLPAI
Facebook was key to linking Native Americans who marched through Fort Bragg and took over the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative”s Blue Ribbon Task Force meeting on July 21. “I don”t have a computer, but I know that a lot of people started talking about it and linking on Facebook and it really took off,”…
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Native Americans protest MLPA
Staff Writer Editor”s Note: The July 29 edition will carry an update on the two-day hearing. A group of six young Yurok Native American men were carrying homemade signs on Main Street, when they spotted the camera and gave thumbs up and smiles as they back slapped and shoved to get in whatever photo was…
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Native Americans protest MLPA
Staff Writer Editor”s Note: The July 29 edition will carry an update on the two-day hearing. A group of six young Yurok Native American men were carrying homemade signs on Main Street, when they spotted the camera and gave thumbs up and smiles as they back slapped and shoved to get in whatever photo was…
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Transition Towns backers aim for autonomy
In the London suburb of Brixton, Euros, pounds sterling or a new local currency called the Brixton pound will all suffice at many local businesses. That new local legal tender emerged last year from Brixton”s participation in Transition Towns, a global movement now involving 475 communities that was introduced to a full house at Fort…
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Transition Towns backers aim for autonomy
In the London suburb of Brixton, Euros, pounds sterling or a new local currency called the Brixton pound will all suffice at many local businesses. That new local legal tender emerged last year from Brixton”s participation in Transition Towns, a global movement now involving 475 communities that was introduced to a full house at Fort…
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Investigation: California”s unenforced openness laws are no match for some modern privatization efforts like MLPAI
Go too fast on a state highway and a California Highway Patrol officer is tasked with giving you a speeding ticket. Fail to pay your state taxes and the Franchise Tax Board will eventually find you, with even more painful results. But violate California”s two landmark laws that define how government meetings must be conducted…
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Investigation: California”s unenforced openness laws are no match for some modern privatization efforts like MLPAI
Go too fast on a state highway and a California Highway Patrol officer is tasked with giving you a speeding ticket. Fail to pay your state taxes and the Franchise Tax Board will eventually find you, with even more painful results. But violate California”s two landmark laws that define how government meetings must be conducted…
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