NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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News
It’s the biggest garage sale weekend of the year! Here is a roundup. Send me photos of your finds..
This is the first installation of Yard Sale Fun on the Coast, from Albion to Westport. If people like it and send stuff, I could do more. There is a list here you can follow from south to North, with directions. Please send any more you sales you find out there and we welcome photos…
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Why is our flag important? Ask the Iversens, who never came back to the Mendocino Coast
This is a follow-up story to one about a German battle flag being displayed ABOVE the American flag in Fort Bragg. Some people didn’t think it was a big deal. I do and wanted to show what the flag meant to some forgotten local heroes who should be remembered. On Jan. 30, 1941, Norman Kenneth…
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Memorial Day
Why is a German World War II flag flying above the stars and stripes in Fort Bragg? Let’s find out!
Why is a World War II German battle flag flying above the stars and stripes in Fort Bragg? I heard about this and went to look. The worst part is that the flag of the German regular army and navy are above the beautiful stars and stripes, which is an act of indecency. No its…
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Arts & Culture
Who has a favorite Mendo 4th or Mad Cad memory?
I’m looking for stories and photos about the Mendoico Parade and Mad Cad! For Real Estate Magazine and mendocino.coast.news. I have another fun one coming! Larry invited me out to take pictures of his shop and do a story for the Advocate many years ago. Big regret that I thought I was too busy.…
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Guest editorial: Fort Bragg name change would not be big deal and look good in history books
People change their names all the time. Many women take their husband’s name when they marry. Hippies took the names of animals or trees to show their affinity for nature and rejection of ‘the system.’. African Americans have rejected ‘slave names’ and taken African names. Sometimes people legally change their names to escape a notorious…
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Food
Come along for Willits Main Street culinary delight tour. Buzzard’s Roost Burgers and Beer coming!
The owner of Highway 101 Drive In gave a wonderful commentary to this story. I have posted it at the end of this article. Buzzard’s Roost Burgers!!! There is a new hangout for Wimpy in Willits I’ll tell you about this as part of a culinary march through the town that calls itself “the Gateway…
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Mendocino Town has water quality problem, Luna, Beaujolis, Frankie’s told to boil, most agree issue blown out of proportion. Town does NOT have widespread water problem
Cafe Beaujolais, Luna Trattoria and Frankie’s Pizza were the three business hit by the county’s order to boil water. Beaujolis and Luna both have switched from well water to trucked water after being notified by the state about the results of the tests and apparent citations. Beaujolis owner Julian Lopez said he had to flush…
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Pup Palooza! Little River Inn joins wave of giving guests with dogs chance for fun, games adoption
Pupapalooza! or Pup Palooza! It was Saturday sun, doggo buns and all kinds of other fun and games for more than two dozen, dogs but none left as happy as Daisy. Daisy got adopted by a couple visiting the Little River Inn, which put on the event to help with dog adoptions. Puppalooza is a…
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Fort Bragg Police: Missing man has been found.
The FBPD has announced this man has been located. It appears to have been a misunderstanding. I suppose this is why the police didn’t make a huge deal out of this from the beginning? The following is a post from Fort Bragg police’s Facebook page. It was issued Saturday evening. We need your help! Have…
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Silver alert issued for missing South Coast man
MEDIA ADVISORY/NEWS RELEASEDATE: “April 25, 2025”FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Incident Number: 2025-8178Crime/Incident:Missing PersonLocation: Old State Highway in Gualala, CADate of Incident: 04-24-2025Time: 04:15 A.M.Victim(s): Missing Person Clifford Souza (74-year-old male from Gualala, CA)Suspect(s): N/AWritten By: Sergeant Brandon Lee #1303Synopsis: On 04/24/2025 at approximately 4:15 A.M., the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office was informed of a possible missing person / overdue motorist in the area of Gualala,…
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News
Trump protests on Saturday will avoid conflicts with Noyo Food Forest’s Earth Day fun and Town Hall Craft Fair
The next big day of Trump protests is Saturday, April 19, 2025 Protesters from Indivisible Mendocino are making efforts to prevent the protests from interfering with two other events going on in Fort Bragg that day. Our pal Tami is not afraid to be for peace! Saturday is also the annual Earth Day celebration of…
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Crime Reports
Fort Bragg police assaulted with butcher knife, flower pots, toilet seat, residents terrified, cop treated for cuts, but no serious injuries
The police do a good job of telling the story below. It’s true, FB police are very good at de-escalating without violence or guns. Read this and think of some cases you have seen on the news where the cops fired sooner. Good not to have someone badly hurt or killed! The cops sent a…
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News
Big River-Jack Peters Creek projects tie up traffic in Mendo for up to 45 minutes.. will it continue?
Linda and I and Brutus went to Mendo on Wednesday afternoon for Sweetwater soaking and dog walking on Big River Beach. We were astonished at the traffic tieups, especially the one caused by the restriping of Big River Bridge, as this one is NOT on the Caltrans road site!. And it was causing the very…
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News
Look down, look up! Salamanders, banana slugs and forest floor life featured in new mural
A new mural was unveiled the same day as the big protests in downtown Fort Bragg. I walked up two blocks to get some photos. There I found others who had been at the protests, such as my long-time redoubtable pal Janet Ashford, who trekked through the whole protest, meeting old friends and joining in,…
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Mendocino’s kings and queens of the skies return for spring lovings and sushi
Brutus and I have two new friends in Caspar. George and Gracie the ospreys. A young couple that just moved into their parent’s massive treetop nest house. They were calling to each other as one stayed at the nest and the other flew off and brought back stuffing for the nest. Ospreys are literally coming…
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2024 Election
Protesters hug, chant, wave at counter protesters and act “square” at huge Fort Bragg protest
As “Hands Off” protest crowds in all 50 states and more than 1200 locales swelled beyond expectations, Coast residents gathered as Mendocino Indivisible under sunny skies to protest federal cuts to everything rural, low-income and senior people depend on, from Medicare to feeding programs. Over 1000 demonstrators (according to this reporter’s effort at grid counting) …
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2024 Election
Nationwide ‘Hands Off’ protests come to Fort Bragg on Saturday
Timothy Stoen has been practicing law for more than 60 years and will take to the streets not to defend a client but to defend America. “I am demonstrating tomorrow with our local chapter of Indivisible. My poster reads: “Stop the Cruelty – Impeach the Maniac.” It is a ‘big tent’ protest under the arching…
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News
Many contest my ID as a red-legged frog! But nobody can explain massive size of this “tree frog”
Last night, Linda found this big beautiful California frog crawling up our back door frame. I think it’s a female and maybe full of eggs. Her body was more than 3 inches long. I have seen these pink-red bellied large frogs for years around here. But whenever I have shown a picture of them to…
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Housing project approved, but will city take opportunity to make Ocean View safer?
87-unit apartment complex gets unanimous approval from Fort Bragg City Council Here is my story in the Mendocino Voice about the approval of Kosh Grewal’s rental housing project. Many questions remain. Caltrans asked the city to use the opportunity to finally make the Coastal Trail there more accessible to the disabled. The city didn’t discuss…
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Crime Reports
21-year old Fort Bragg woman arrested booked on elder abuse, fireworks charges for attacks on homeless woman
A 21-year old Fort Bragg hairstylist and a juvenile male, both from Fort Bragg, face charges for allegedly throwing lit fireworks at a homeless woman four separate times on July 8, 2024. A video of one of the alleged attacks became a viral video. The police would only say the boy in the car was…
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