NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Noyo Food Forest breaks ground at high school
In the ruins of Fort Bragg High”s once proud agriculture program, an enthusiastic new group put down roots on Sunday, or at least they planted some garlic and a green delicious apple tree. Noyo Food Forest, a group started by five young women who love to garden and want to share their enthusiasm for spray-free,…
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Speakers explain anti-Iraq war Measure Y
A crowd of less than 25 people came Friday night to a Fort Bragg Town Hall forum on Mendocino County”s Measure Y, which would call for an immediate return of troops from Iraq. By the time a five-person panel took the stage just a dozen people remained. Those involved gave a variety of suggestions as…
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Clothesline project displays emotion
Project Sanctuary aired the coast”s dirty laundry on its front lawn on Franklin Street in Fort Bragg earlier this month, an act intended to both awaken the community and celebrate victims” ability to finally speak out. Clotheslines jammed full of colorful T-shirts with provocative messages covered the front landscaping and the inside of the office…
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Habitat homeowners attend fund-raiser dinner
Irene Graeta had to search for just the right word in English to describe the thrill of getting a Habitat for Humanity home. “I feel very good about Habitat. It is too much. I like it too much. Muy Bueno,” she said as she labored over a hot stove at the Oct. 7 Habitat for…
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Love Canal activist speaks in Caspar
Lois Gibbs, the suburban housewife who turned activist in the 1970s over Love Canal wastes that poisoned her family”s home in New York, told a Caspar Community Center crowd on Sunday that she was amazed that areas of the Georgia Pacific mill site found to contain dioxin are not covered. “It is just unbelievable that…
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Abundance Fest feeds hundreds in Caspar
Hundreds feasted and took workshops on cooking and local food all day Saturday at the Local Abundance Festival in Caspar. But for Marty Johnson, one of the organizers of the “C”mon Home to Eat” event for Coast Economic Localization Link (CELL), the highlight of the day wasn”t the silky Sea Palm Struedel from Ravens Restaurant…
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City Council candidates square off
Although Judy Williams said she voted for City Councilman Dan Gjerde in his first council race, any common ground was long gone Friday night at a Fort Bragg City Council candidates forum at Town Hall. Exchanges between Gjerde and Williams brought out strikingly different views among five candidates on hand about issues ranging from corporate…
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Fans toast Tallman and his favorite mollusk
To the average Mendocino Coast diver, a 10-inch abalone can be the find of a lifetime. But at Saturday”s Mendocino Area Parks Association cook-off in Caspar, seemingly every cook and even the Department of Fish and Game had the shell of at least one such monstrous mollusk on display. Some cooks were willing to share…
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Seniors give their views at AAA meeting
Wilma Gromer, like hundreds of local senior citizens, relishes the meals at the Redwood Coast Senior Center in Fort Bragg. She told a special gathering of the Lake and Mendocino Area Agency on Aging (AAA) last Wednesday in the lunchroom, that the regular and varied meals and the advance availability of what is on the…
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Legion names state competitors at potluck
American Legion members celebrated their Boys and Girls State competitors with a scrumptious potluck, a surprise birthday cake and even a colorful camp song last Thursday night at Veterans Hall in Fort Bragg. Three high school juniors gave short speeches about their experiences at Boys and Girls State before an appreciative and graying crowd. Applications…
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DFG doesn”t let bear meat go to waste
A 400-pound black bear was more than the Fort Bragg Food Bank could reckon with Friday. But that was the donation of meat from the Department of Fish and Game, which periodically kills animals that have become threats to human safety or property. The arrival of the dead bear brought a crowd of spectators, including…
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Fort Bragg stories contribute to universal health care showdown
Activists for universal health care were enthusiastic after more than a dozen Mendocino Coast residents turned out to tell their health care nightmare stories on Saturday, supporting the notion that all Californians should have health care. With the passage of a “universal health care” bill on Monday, the local stories will be part of an…
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Big Brothers Sisters has new BBQ, travel, middle school efforts
Big Paul Bunyan will give a hand up this year to a financially struggling youth organization that helps local youngsters get a better start in life. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mendocino County will run a beef, pork, fish and lamb barbecue on Monday at Todd Point following the Paul Bunyan Days parade in Fort…
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Peace activists press Rep. Thompson at fund-raiser
Pressed to be more visible in his antiwar stance, Congressman Mike Thompson told a Saturday gathering of Mendocino Coast Democrats that results are more important than appearing angry. “It doesn”t matter how loud you are. If someone disagrees with you, just because you speak louder and shout more angrily, it doesn”t change their mind,” Thompson…
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Salmon fishers get good news from feds, courts, utility
Commercial fishers, suffering through one of their worst regulatory years ever, got three pieces of potentially good news in recent days. The federal government took the first step toward cash aid, while a Fort Bragg salmon fishing group sued the federal government to get part of the season back, and a Klamath River utility announced…
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City hikes downtown parking permits, violation fines
Parking permits in Fort Bragg will rise from $12 to $17 per month and parking violation fines will jump from $22 to $30, after a unanimous 4-0 vote by the Fort Bragg City Council Monday night. The increases take effect on Oct. 1. Downtown business owners and workers pleaded with the council not to more…
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Harnessing the ocean”s wave energy
Three miles offshore the Mendocino Coast, the cluster of bright red tubes, each about the size and circumference of a giant redwood tree, would wiggle and dive in the surf like giant sea snakes. The segmented “Pelamis” design of a wave energy plant was just one painted Monday night by engineer Roger Bedard of the…
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New advisory board hosts wide range discussion on medical marijuana
A defendant was perched next to the district attorney at a not-very-relaxing first meeting of the Mendocino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board Friday in Fort Bragg. In a greater irony, Mendocino County District Attorney Norm Vroman was invited as special guest to be praised for not prosecuting people for medical marijuana-related offenses. And, advisory board member…
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Gore”s movie inspires ideas for locals
When tourists fleeing the blazing heat of the Central Valley enter Toni Orans” Mendocino art gallery, they often want to talk about the cool weather. Orans makes a point of steering weather small talk toward a discussion about why the hottest years on record have happened in the past decade — asking them if they…
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Despite local sportfishing boat contributions, salmon barbecue attendance down this year
Brian Aldeghi”s birthday wish was a trip to the World”s Largest Salmon Barbecue on his birthday, July 1. “We didn”t think we would be able to come. Every hotel in town was full. But we got a great room at the Noyo River Lodge overlooking the harbor, the setting, the weather, the salmon, you just…
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