NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Scientists ask for help spotting Orcas
Fort Bragg”s Whale Festival watchers could make a genuine scientific contribution to the study of killer whales, says biologist Bradley Hanson. “We need to get as many people looking as possible to spot the orcas. The more eyes, binoculars and cameras looking the better,” said Hanson, who is with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration”s…
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FERC rejects involvement in future wave energy study
The Federal Energy Regulatory Energy Commission has rebuffed efforts by the city of Fort Bragg and county of Mendocino to take an official role in Pacific Gas & Electric”s three-year wave energy study off Fort Bragg. The commission rejected late motions to intervene in PG&E”s preliminary permit proposal by Fort Bragg, Mendocino County and FISH,…
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Board approves bond for school renovations
Local residents will vote in the June 3 primary election whether to approve a $16 million bond to be paired with state funds to complete renovations under way in Fort Bragg Unified School District. The bond, which district trustees voted last week to put on the ballot, will create an assessment of $22.88 per $100,000…
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Video leads to beef recall that includes local schools
Local schools yanked Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing company beef from their freezer shelves this week as part of the largest beef recall in U.S. history. Westland is the second largest supplier of United States Department of Agriculture beef, which is provided to local schools at the cost of shipping. Fort Bragg and Mendocino school districts were…
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New Otis Johnson Park friends plan workday
A new volunteer organization, the Friends of Otis Johnson Wilderness Park, will kick off with a party on Saturday — a cleaning party. Winter storms damaged trails in the six-acre park — Fort Bragg”s best kept secret — slicing deeply into one stream bank and washing gravel off paths. Volunteers will meet in the city…
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School board to vote on tax to finish high school, Dana Gray
School district trustees will vote tonight on whether to tax local property owners to finish renovations at Fort Bragg High School and Dana Gray Elementary. Superintendent Steve Lund will recommend an annual fee of $22 per $100,000 in assessed value to the board, to raise about $16 million to finish the modernization process for school…
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FISHing group forms to address wave energy
Six local commercial and sport fishing groups have put aside their differences to cast their lines together into the wave energy issue, the Fort Bragg City Council heard Monday night. The timing couldn”t have been better. Local leaders hope that Pacific Gas & Electric and others who develop wave energy locally will fund such “stakeholder”…
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Homeland security at Noyo River Station
Enter or leave Noyo Harbor and a U.S Coast Guard camera on the jetty beneath the Noyo River Bridge will be watching. The camera, which can see from Silver”s Restaurant all the way to the large buoy visible offshore (usually occupied by gulls and sea lions), is turned on 24 hours a day with someone…
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FERC rejects two counties” challenges
The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission has issued an order rejecting pleas by the County of Mendocino, Lincoln County, Oregon and Elizabeth Mitchell, a retired attorney living in Fort Bragg who challenged FERC and helped file the two counties” challenges. FERC proposed a process on Nov. 30 to issue licenses for experimental wave energy devices very…
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GOP politician, top wave energy researcher on GreenWave team claiming waters off Mendocino
Two top Southern California real estate developers and a leading Republican political figure lead GreenWave Energy Solutions LLC, company President Wayne Burkamp told the newspaper. One of five GreenWave members is former state Assemblyman Tony Strickland, who lost his bid last year as the GOP nominee for state controller. Strickland is the Republican candidate expected…
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City, county hear they have special wave energy powers
A city-county forum on wave energy enthralled Dr. Richard Miller Saturday in Fort Bragg, the hours of fast-paced discussion panels changing his mind. “I entered the forum an advocate of wave energy and exited a skeptic,” said Miller, host of a show about health on local public radio. “Energy can be extracted from the waves…
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School district to ask voters for bond
Fort Bragg School District residents will likely be asked to pay a property tax of $17 per $100,000 in assessed value to raise about $16 million to finish the modernization process for school buildings. School trustees last week heard a report that said local voters understand and support the schools” needs in numbers high enough…
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PG&E responds to WaveConnect testing questions
When Pacific Gas & Electric surprised locals with a wave energy claim off Fort Bragg last February, they expected to get their money and permit well before the end of 2007. The money is $6 million from the California Public Utilities Commission to fund studies of their twin projects off Eureka and Fort Bragg, called…
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Wave energy more discussed than tested
Wave energy has come a long way in the past two years, but still hasn”t quite made it outdoors. In December 2005, when the local group CELL (Coast Economic Localization Link) held a Fort Bragg meeting on local sources of renewable energy, the old standbys — sun and wind power took center stage. There were…
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Gas stations, stores, bars keep spirits up
With no power or vehicles coming over the hill on Friday, Fort Braggers could still get a hot cup of coffee, eat a hot breakfast, enjoy a free shower and hear the news on the radio. Although almost every home on the coast was dark, the storm that severed all the incoming electrical lines and…
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Thousand Oaks wave energy firm claims waters off town of Mendocino
A Southern California company has stepped into the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission filing area abandoned by Chevron, off the town of Mendocino. The filing by GreenWave Energy Solutions happened shortly after Chevron withdrew, but oddly was never posted on the federal Website among all the other applications with pending preliminary permit applications. Most Federal Energy…
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PG&E battles to keep Fort Bragg wave energy research mum
Pacific Gas & Electric”s effort to get $6 million in public money for the WaveConnect projects off Fort Bragg and Eureka has turned into a showdown over whether wave energy research should be public information. The giant utility is fighting to keep a lid on the information it gathers in Fort Bragg about wave energy…
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Wave Energy Forum in Fort Bragg Jan. 19
It”s not quite Yalta, but representatives of three agencies still learning how to divide up the new world of wave energy will make presentations at a public forum in Fort Bragg. The Saturday, Jan. 19 event at Dana Gray Elementary will be the first time ever that representatives of the California State Lands Commission, the…
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Food Bank and others pull together to meet community”s needs
Last Friday the Fort Bragg Food Bank was as festive and full as a New Year”s Eve party, three days early. People chatted and joked, while waiting for a humungous crop of fresh produce and bakery items, which had been donated by Harvest Market and Safeway. But a wealth of food and clients can mean…
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Statewide ballot effort led by elusive Fort Bragg man
The chairman of a political party attempting to qualify for the June primary in California is based in Fort Bragg and has expressed interest in the local wave energy issue. But John Wheeling is also a man hard to reach whose various political efforts have baffled some locals. The California Secretary of State”s Website identified…
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