NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Churches, businesses, kids all keep Food Bank table full
The Fort Bragg Food Bank”s “Santa” came back last week — just in time for Christmas. An anonymous local donor once again approached Harvest Market owner Tom Honer and gave $10,000, to be spent by the Food Bank at the store. “This is a wonderful, wonderful thing for us. The timing couldn”t have been better,”…
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Trustees: Cotton Auditorium must make more money
It”s time for big, beautiful Cotton Auditorium to finally graduate to being a productive money-making member of the Fort Bragg Unified School District, trustees said at their December meeting. Trustees turned down the idea of a one-year contract suggested by staff, instead voting for a three-month contract, so that they can keep a closer eye…
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Food Bank”s loyal volunteers, clients, staff share food, fun
Don McDonell has called Fort Bragg home his entire life but the stories the retired electrician can tell could fill the pages of a non-fiction thriller. I found McDonell fixing, neatening and landscaping at the Fort Bragg Food Bank, where he volunteers regularly. I was looking for stories about volunteers, staff and board members for…
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School board adds members
Two new board members were sworn in and a new board president was chosen for the Fort Bragg Unified School District last week. Retired state official Robert Hotchkiss and Fort Bragg attorney Ryan Perkins were sworn in by Superintendent Steve Lund. Wendy Boise was picked as new president of the board, replacing DeeLynn Carpenter. The…
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FBUSD hires firm to see if developer fee hike possible
The Fort Bragg Unified School District voted to study developer fees, which could lead to higher costs for those building a home or remodeling. Revenue is down for the district, along with the number of sales of homes in the local real estate market. Superintendent Steve Lund said the district had been getting about $200,000…
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Agencies demand FERC slow down on wave energy
If the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission”s new plan for faster wave energy permits was a play on Old Broadway, it would have been closed down by the critics on opening night. The critics in this case are the states of California, Oregon and Washington, several fellow federal agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
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Food Bank”s loyal volunteers, clients, staff share food, fun
Don McDonell has called Fort Bragg home his entire life but the stories the retired electrician can tell could fill the pages of a non-fiction thriller. I found McDonell fixing, neatening and landscaping at the Fort Bragg Food Bank, where he volunteers regularly. I was looking for stories about volunteers, staff and board members for…
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School board adds members
Two new board members were sworn in and a new board president was chosen for the Fort Bragg Unified School District last week. Retired state official Robert Hotchkiss and Fort Bragg attorney Ryan Perkins were sworn in by Superintendent Steve Lund. Wendy Boise was picked as new president of the board, replacing DeeLynn Carpenter. The…
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FBUSD hires firm to see if developer fee hike possible
The Fort Bragg Unified School District voted to study developer fees, which could lead to higher costs for those building a home or remodeling. Revenue is down for the district, along with the number of sales of homes in the local real estate market. Superintendent Steve Lund said the district had been getting about $200,000…
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Agencies demand FERC slow down on wave energy
If the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission”s new plan for faster wave energy permits was a play on Old Broadway, it would have been closed down by the critics on opening night. The critics in this case are the states of California, Oregon and Washington, several fellow federal agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
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Sheehan takes aim at Thompson, other Democrats
Those who came to see Cindy Sheehan, the suburban soccer mom turned George Bush basher, got at least half of what they came for. Speaking before more than 300 people at Cotton Auditorium Saturday night, Sheehan”s harshest words were for Democrats, including Congressman Mike Thompson and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Sheehan is now…
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Local supermarkets keep Food Bank going
As I pushed the shopping cart toward the Fort Bragg Food Bank bobtail truck parked behind Safeway, it jostled and a plastic container of deep, dark brown chocolate cookies jettisoned out and scattered on the asphalt. They looked delicious and I apologized for the waste to the man I was supposed to be helping, Earl…
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Kids, workers, friends, stigmas at Food Bank table
In the parking lot of the Fort Bragg Food Bank, a 53-year-old former used car salesman from Phoenix swapped food with other clients to get just the right stuff for dinner. His recreational vehicle was parked across the street, and he explained to passersby that he was no chef and wanted easily-prepared food items. He…
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FERC speeds up wave energy process despite calls for rulemaking
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued a new policy to speed up licensing of wave energy projects while ignoring widespread recent calls that it engage in a full scale public process called “rulemaking.” Public comments will be accepted until Friday, Dec. 14 on the new policy FERC announced last Friday — surprising even some…
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Reporter”s Food Bank feasting showed more staples, money are needed
I enjoy a little caveat emptor now and then, but I was a little nervous having it on my dinner plate. The following disclaimer comprises the first line of the application I filled out for the Mendocino Food and Nutrition Program: “I am applying to receive assorted food from the Food Bank. This food will…
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Food Bank supplies essential to low income retirees, working poor
Philip Oleana was much more interested in talking about his woodworking projects than the food he was about to get from the Fort Bragg Food Bank. For many years, Oleana specialized in furniture for bars and restaurants in the area, and as we waited in line for the free food, the 65-year-old was lamenting the…
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Local crabbers wait after Bay Area oil spill
The recent oil spill that fouled Point Reyes could easily have also soiled the Mendocino Coast, said Richard Charter, co-chair of the Outer Continental Shelf Coalition. More than 58,000 gallons of bunker oil spilled into the San Francisco Bay Nov. 7 after the South Korean tanker Cosco Busan collided with the Bay Bridge. “During the…
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Turkey Trot kicks off Food Bank fund-raising season
When I stopped in to launch my series of “Season of Sharing” articles as both a reporter and a client at the Fort Bragg Food Bank, the work day was moving way too fast for anybody to give me an interview. With two employees out that Friday, Executive Director Nancy Severy had drafted volunteer Nancy…
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Counselor: Iraq vets get better welcome than Vietnam vets
Dr. Guy Grenny”s Sherwood Road home includes a traditional psychologist”s office, complete with a wall of textbooks and even the expected couch for clients to lie back on and talk to the therapist. But one young special forces veteran who came in recently on his way back to Iraq for the third time didn”t come…
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Sonoma supervisors study seizing wave energy process
Sonoma County supervisors are considering claiming all the waters off their coast so that their county residents, not big companies, can direct wave energy development. Supervisors were set to vote Tuesday on a plan to direct staff of the Sonoma County Water Agency to file an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for…
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