NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Humboldt supervisors enter wave energy fray
Fourth District Supervisor Kendall Smith said visiting Chevron officials were interested to hear about Mendocino County”s activist history, from The Whale Wars to fierce opposition to aerial spraying of herbicides and pesticides to the recent GMO measure. “This community has often been at the forefront of issues that impact our environment,” Smith said. “I told…
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Hearing on 2002 Klamath salmon kill raises bigger questions
A congressional investigation of Vice President Dick Cheney that got under way this week is good news to scientists who want to put science first, says Congressman Mike Thompson. “Tuesday”s hearing is a loud message to everyone in public service that they are there to do a job based on their expertise. If the vice…
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Humboldt supervisors enter wave energy fray
Fourth District Supervisor Kendall Smith said visiting Chevron officials were interested to hear about Mendocino County”s activist history, from The Whale Wars to fierce opposition to aerial spraying of herbicides and pesticides to the recent GMO measure. “This community has often been at the forefront of issues that impact our environment,” Smith said. “I told…
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Chevron promises extensive local process
Chevron officials came to Fort Bragg on Tuesday to answer questions about wave energy and to explain why the company worked 18 months in secret before filing a claim off the town of Mendocino earlier this month. Raymond Cunningham, Mendocino project manager for Chevron, provided evidence the oil giant is serious about wave energy and…
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Local wave energy tests can now get in the ocean faster
The federal agency that has taken control of wave energy has cut by 80 percent the time required to get experimental projects into the water. The plan has widespread support, despite the lack of any process that ensures local control and questions about the legitimacy of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission”s current control of the…
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Five dogs that saved family from fire now seek new homes
Members of a Fort Bragg family who lost their belongings and most of their house in a July 2 fire are living in two hotel rooms with their five dogs — whom they credit with saving their lives. Lorene Pearl, and her three disabled sons, Karl, Ken and Kevin, haven”t asked for any help so…
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San Francisco moves to block wave energy
San Francisco, transformed into one of the world”s leading cities by the Gold Rush of 1849, is reaching to try to slow a new wave energy “gold rush” in Fort Bragg. A recent City of San Francisco filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission asks the federal agency to block Pacific Gas & Electric Company”s…
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Five dogs that saved family from fire now seek new homes
Members of a Fort Bragg family who lost their belongings and most of their house in a July 2 fire are living in two hotel rooms with their five dogs — whom they credit with saving their lives. Lorene Pearl, and her three disabled sons, Karl, Ken and Kevin, haven”t asked for any help so…
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San Francisco moves to block wave energy
San Francisco, transformed into one of the world”s leading cities by the Gold Rush of 1849, is reaching to try to slow a new wave energy “gold rush” in Fort Bragg. A recent City of San Francisco filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission asks the federal agency to block Pacific Gas & Electric Company”s…
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Chevron stakes federal wave energy claim to waters off Mendocino
An alternative energy subsidiary of oil giant Chevron is proposing a wave energy plant off the town of Mendocino that could complement — or compete with — the proposed PG&E wave energy plant off Fort Bragg. On July 2, Chevron California Renewable Energy, Inc. filed a preliminary permit application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.…
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Salmon barbecue attendance jumps 10 percent
As Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman grilled salmon Saturday at the 36th annual World”s Largest Salmon Barbecue, he marveled at just how perfect conditions were for the event. “I don”t think there is an unhappy camper out there today,” he said. The sun was uncommonly warm for Fort Bragg but soothingly cool for the army…
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History teaches Salmon Restoration Association how to help salmon
The science of salmon restoration has done a complete turnaround since Fort Bragg commercial fishers started rearing Coho salmon in 1972 on the Georgia-Pacific Mill site pond and in Avery Pond in Mendocino. Back then, the commercial fishing industry was booming and hatchery science was in its infancy. For 36 years, Fort Bragg”s Salmon Restoration…
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Chef Thompson leads Cheney investigation
While Congressman Mike Thompson prepares to cook salmon at the World”s Largest Salmon Barbecue this Saturday in Fort Bragg, he also is looking forward to an investigation he has led into whether Vice President Dick Cheney contributed to the massive death of salmon on the Klamath River. Thompson, whose district includes the Mendocino Coast, was…
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Torres visits Fort Bragg
California Democratic Party Chairman Arthur Torres told a Fort Bragg audience Friday night that a Feb. 5 primary date will allow Californians to finally make a difference in choosing a president in 2008. “We were tired of Iowa and New Hampshire determining who our president would be. I had never worked with Arnold before but…
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New principal to start at middle school
A woman who advanced from substitute teacher to full-time teacher to assistant principal at Baechtel Grove Middle School in Willits will take the helm as principal of Fort Bragg Middle School on July 1. Tawny Fernandez, 45, who will replace the retiring Marli Shoop, plans to commute for the first year. Then, she and her…
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New wine and beer bar, massage school continue remake of Company Store
A day in the “new” Union Lumber Old Company Store could include a beer or wine tasting, cookies, lunch at one of the nation”s premier raw foods delis and dinner at a fine restaurant. Along the way one could get a massage, check email on the free Wifi, browse art and photography, soak in a…
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Filmgoers, filmmakers inspired by breadth and depth of second festival”s offerings
Carl Lumbly promised in 2006 he would bring Danny Glover to Mendocino for a special award in 2007 if the Mendocino Film Festival could overcome the odds and roll the tape on a second year. Lumbly was emcee of the awards ceremony at “Take 2” on Saturday and ate some crow on behalf of friend…
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School trustees renew efforts on transfer policy
Of the Advocate Rachel Cost was surprised when her request that her son attend Mendocino schools was denied by Fort Bragg Unified School District. The Fort Bragg Unified School District last week said one yes, one no and two maybes to four families” requests to leave Fort Bragg schools for Mendocino schools. The board changed…
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No parental participation in schools” new choice of science textbooks
A 1977 physics textbook still in use at Fort Bragg High School was one of the casualties of the district”s choice of new textbooks at the May 9 school board meeting. The 2007 Holt physics textbook moves students from the pre-Internet, pre-Quark era to new books now written specifically to match California”s standards. The board…
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Hotchkiss appointed to school board
A man who spent his working years managing state offices has become the newest member of the Fort Bragg School District Board. Robert J. Hotchkiss, 68, joined the board for a May 10 meeting that stretched for more than three hours, but he smiled and said he was ready when other board members kidded about…
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