NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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FBHS ranks high in U.S News survey
Solid learning by minority students at Fort Bragg and Anderson Valley high schools helped boost both into the top tier of a nationwide school survey. Fort Bragg and Anderson Valley earned Silver Medal status in a U.S. News World and Report nationwide survey. The survey, while good news locally, brought terrible Christmas tidings to California…
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Blue whale strike results in reform, not punishment, for Fugro Pelagos
The California State Lands Commission last week found its own regulations designed to protect marine mammals so inconsistent and confusing as to be unenforceable. That was good news for Fugro Pelagos, owner of the 176-foot survey vessel Pacific Star that reported it fatally struck a female blue whale on Oct. 19. “On behalf of all…
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First MLPA maps energize crowd
Mendocino High students and their teacher brewed up more than hour”s worth of vigorous discussion at Monday”s meeting of MOCA (Mendocino Ocean Community Alliance). Robert Jamgochian”s SONAR SEA class energized the two-hour meeting by showing off the first map of how the Mendocino Coast might look with newly closed and fishing-restricted areas. Cooperating with a…
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Season of Sharing: Jones reflects on years with Food Bank
Jean Jones played many roles in her 14 years at the Fort Bragg Food Bank. She was executive director, on the board of directors, a client, a volunteer — and everything else. She retired due to health reasons this fall. “I miss the staff, the volunteers, but especially the clients. I love them all and…
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Fugro may lose permit over whale strike
The owner of the ship that struck and killed a blue whale off Fort Bragg on Oct. 19 faces revocation of its permit by the California State Lands Commission at its meeting this week. “Fugro Pelagos, Inc. has violated provisions of its Offshore Geophysical Survey Permit by conducting geophysical surveys without a National Oceanic and…
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Season of Sharing: Donors give til it hurts, but it doesn”t
Nobody had time for interviews at the Food Bank last week. Always wildly busy, this was the most frenetic Thanksgiving ever, and the flu had robbed the Food Bank of badly needed hands. Volunteer John Teller pushed carts bulging with groceries given away in the giant baskets of fresh foods. Volunteer Charles Unser wanted to…
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Season of Sharing: Donors give til it hurts, but it doesn”t
Nobody had time for interviews at the Food Bank last week. Always wildly busy, this was the most frenetic Thanksgiving ever, and the flu had robbed the Food Bank of badly needed hands. Volunteer John Teller pushed carts bulging with groceries given away in the giant baskets of fresh foods. Volunteer Charles Unser wanted to…
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Food Bank teaches reporter, clients to eat better
Seeing the cornucopia spread out in front of me, my friend Suellen Elm-McGrath was surprised this haul came from one visit to the Fort Bragg Food Bank. “You have to tell me the secret time to go to the Food Bank to score the really good stuff,” she joked. But myself and Food Bank volunteer…
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Whale strike may revive state efforts
California”s regulatory system, designed to protect whales from science vessels will get some rethinking, following controversy over the Oct. 19 death of a blue whale off Fort Bragg, a state official said. The incident has highlighted an inconsistent and controversial regulatory system for which change was blocked by funding cuts due to the state budget…
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Whale strike may revive state efforts
California”s regulatory system, designed to protect whales from science vessels will get some rethinking, following controversy over the Oct. 19 death of a blue whale off Fort Bragg, a state official said. The incident has highlighted an inconsistent and controversial regulatory system for which change was blocked by funding cuts due to the state budget…
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Whale strike may revive state efforts
California”s regulatory system, designed to protect whales from science vessels will get some rethinking, following controversy over the Oct. 19 death of a blue whale off Fort Bragg, a state official said. The incident has highlighted an inconsistent and controversial regulatory system for which change was blocked by funding cuts due to the state budget…
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Food Bank teaches reporter, clients to eat better
Seeing the cornucopia spread out in front of me, my friend Suellen Elm-McGrath was surprised this haul came from one visit to the Fort Bragg Food Bank. “You have to tell me the secret time to go to the Food Bank to score the really good stuff,” she joked. But myself and Food Bank volunteer…
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Food Bank gives window to worlds of disability
My tales about people I meet at the Fort Bragg Food Bank could consist only of loving great-grandmothers, small business people who can”t quite make ends meet and wholesome families struggling with low wages, unemployment and foreclosure. Sad and inspiring stories are abundant. Or, the portrait could be of lifelong homeless, the occasional free loader…
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MOCA hopes to awaken local plan for marine reserves
On Feb. 1, an interactive map showing new areas of the ocean off Mendocino County to close to fishing is “due.” By Nov. 30, nominations for the local people who wish to serve on a local stakeholders panel are also due In an effort to complete this “homework” assigned by the Marine Life Protection Act…
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Food Bank needs more to feed more hungry people this year
It”s not another “Star Wars” sequel, it”s not DMV on Thursday afternoon or the post office at Christmas. This is the line for the Fort Bragg Food Bank. Lines, very long ones at times, were proof enough to me that there are many more hungry people than ever this year. But I asked Food Bank…
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Ocean monsters inspire hope among local fishermen
Local fishermen seem to have been given a gift — a rich fishing season without environmental consequences. The giver? Humboldt or “jumbo” squid, true monsters of the deep, which have arrived mysteriously off the coast of the entire Pacific Northwest. In fact, fishermen might very well be doing the ocean ecosystem a favor by catching…
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MLPAI staff explains why timeline inflexible, but boundaries can change
Staff Writer The Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPAI) will hold a public workshop at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at the C.V. Starr Community Center in Fort Bragg. Organizers have changed the format from the last workshop to allow direct public input. They also have separated the workshop in Fort Bragg from others.…
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Peterson lawsuit lands $791,000 libel damages award
A jury has awarded $791,000 to three locals for libel damages caused by the creator of the board game Pirateer. The verdict may finally mark an end to what was once a Mendocino Coast business success story. Scott Peterson ended up losing the lawsuit he launched against former members of the board of directors of…
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Peterson lawsuit lands $791,000 libel damages award
A jury has awarded $791,000 to three locals for libel damages caused by the creator of the board game Pirateer. The verdict may finally mark an end to what was once a Mendocino Coast business success story. Scott Peterson ended up losing the lawsuit he launched against former members of the board of directors of…
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Peterson lawsuit lands $791,000 libel damages award
A jury has awarded $791,000 to three locals for libel damages caused by the creator of the board game Pirateer. The verdict may finally mark an end to what was once a Mendocino Coast business success story. Scott Peterson ended up losing the lawsuit he launched against former members of the board of directors of…
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