NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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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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Rising ocean acidity a threat to marine life
Rising acidity of ocean waters will wipe out the world”s coral reefs and could devastate crab, scallops and other creatures that build shells from calcium compounds in ocean waters, a top professor told a Fort Bragg audience last Friday. San Francisco State Professor Jonathon Stillman presented figures that showed the pH balance of ocean waters…
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Rising ocean acidity a threat to marine life
Rising acidity of ocean waters will wipe out the world”s coral reefs and could devastate crab, scallops and other creatures that build shells from calcium compounds in ocean waters, a top professor told a Fort Bragg audience last Friday. San Francisco State Professor Jonathon Stillman presented figures that showed the pH balance of ocean waters…
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Rising ocean acidity a threat to marine life
Rising acidity of ocean waters will wipe out the world”s coral reefs and could devastate crab, scallops and other creatures that build shells from calcium compounds in ocean waters, a top professor told a Fort Bragg audience last Friday. San Francisco State Professor Jonathon Stillman presented figures that showed the pH balance of ocean waters…
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MLPAI”s division of local group protested
Controversy continues over the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative”s staff dividing the Regional Stakeholders Group in half, apparently despite objections of a majority of group members. Jim Burns, a Noyo Harbor Commissioner, resigned the RSG last week, citing the strong-handed control and division of the group as one reason. The cities of Point Arena and…
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Million people tell Obama no” whale hunting
Whales can still inspire people to action like no other issue, Casson Trenor of Greenpeace told a packed house at Town Hall on Sunday. More than one million people have contacted the Obama administration to dissuade U.S. cooperation with an International Whaling Commission (IWC) effort to allow legal whaling to resume, Trenor said. While encouraging…
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Fort Bragg schools cut six
The Fort Bragg Unified School District last Thursday voted to layoff six people in an effort to bridge a $500,000 budget deficit. The governor”s May Revise budget came out the next day, which Superintendent Don Armstrong said didn”t contain any pleasant surprises for the district. The schools laid off two office assistants, who each work…
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