NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Fort Bragg
Coast Guard conducts dramatic night training operation from Noyo Bridge to Pudding Creek
Helicopters were circling from 5pm to 950pm on Thursday over Noyo Harbor, Pudding Creek and Cleone They sounded like big Coast Guard Copters. I had no idea what was going on? Could this be a drill? At night? I went out and took pictures. YUP! I called the Noyo station and they confirmed it. I…
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Mendocino Indivisible draws huge crowd, what’s next?
The Huddle, or Indivisible Mendocino is a resistance movement that certainly has the right reaction to present insanity. Folks I think we need a bigger boat! Wood ducks are among the most beautiful and beloved poultry there is. But woodies are also the most fearful and don’t know how to resist and assimilate. As a…
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Sheriff’s Department issues statement on serial killler case.
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department has issued a press release that contradicts what daughter Galina Trefil has been saying on social media about authorities refusing to check the DNA of her father, whom she claims is a serial killer. The did check, the press releases says and results from a 1970s murder case that had…
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Fort Bragg Apartments developer responds to social media questions about proposed 87-unit project next to Outlet Store
Fort Bragg Planning Commision will get first look Wednesday at city's biggest proposed development of the century
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International Women’s Day in Fort Bragg in pictures
International Women’s Day in Fort Bragg generates protests and history Linda and I enjoyed taking photos at the two events in Fort Bragg for International Women’s Day, the one inside Town Hall celebrating history from the Daughters of the Golden West and outside, the big protest. Check out the Mendocino Voice story. Brutus almost became…
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Fort Bragg City Council
87 housing units proposed at Todd Point
Fort Bragg Planning Commission awaits first look at the project next Wednesday, March 12 In a town starved for affordable and worker housing, the biggest private housing development project in years will be on the agenda of the Fort Bragg Planning Commission on Wednesday, March 12. The plans are for 87 housing units on 2.7…
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Skunk-city visioning for millsite a lot like 2020 vision- KZYX broadcast
Here is my piece on KZYX radio about the millsite vision meeting last week. The text of the broadcast is below minus the quotes of residents who spoke. Click below to hear the broadcast! KYZX broadcast Some conceptual drawings from the wall of Town Hall. They were not discussed at the meeting but included the…
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Frankly Speaking- ‘deep thoughts’ and fun stuff to do, too.
Come enjoy a hometown stroll with Brutus and I and sometimes Linda on the north end of Fort Bragg. First responders have been touched and sometimes traumatized by suicide attempts and successful suicides. Since the heartbreaking death of a teenager in December, the Fort Bragg t, led by Cpt. Thomas O’Neal and Chief Neil Cervenka,…
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Crime Reports
Windsor police arrest man for huge illegal abalone haul from Elk, many undersized
The following is a press release from the city of Windsor Windsor Deputy Apprehends alled Abalone Poacher February 26th at approximately 10:30pm, a Windsor Police Department Deputy contacted the subjects of an occupied vehicle on the 700 block of Shiloh Rd. The deputy learned the male driver identified as Jason Ramos (46) from Santa Rosa…
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City Council
Did Skunk and City go too far in creating development agreements with mediation process?
Fibbing by Georgia Pacific, environmental extremism and Skunk-city squabbles may be put in the past, but should hotel, trolley, housing be in the future? After years of meetings about how we would all use somebody else’s property at the old Georgia Pacific millsite, we actually have a meeting on Tuesday where our input will count.…
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Redwood Coast Seniors
Fort Bragg senior center leads charge to put funding back- Mendocino Voice article
MENDOCINO CO., CA., 2/21/25 — Even with a microphone, Redwood Coast Seniors Executive Director Jill Rexrode would have had trouble getting her message heard over the cacophony of the daily lunch. Every table in Fort Bragg’s senior center dining room was filled. Lunchers enjoyed meatloaf, green salad, potatoes, and veggies. Volunteers and staff bussed carts…
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Fort Bragg
Big turnouts for Presidents’ Day protests in Fort Bragg, Ukiah, nationwide
MENDOCINO CO., 2/18/25 — A grassroots activist group whose web page claims it started with a Reddit post was behind nationwide protests that drew one of the biggest Town Hall protest rallies in memory to Fort Bragg as well as another in Ukiah. “Not My Presidents’ Day” protests drew big crowds across the nation, with…
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Westport grave mystery: Could it be a “peace” of unknown history?
Two brothers who died on a ranch in Rockport in the 1940s are buried side by side in Westport with a message on their wooden graves that defies written history. Peace! The two graves in the Westport Cemetery contradict all the published history of the peace sign, that two-fingered salute that once was also the…
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2024 Election
Not my president’s day protest draws 300+
A sunny day brought more than 300 protesters out. This is “just my photos” of “not my president’s day”. One person was putting a Trump doll under car tires. Some ran it over. A few swerved. Some had no idea what was going on and were unnerved by something in the road. Some danced. Many…
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Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo
Potter Valley Tribe adding, preserving lands in Westport, Caspar
Many California tribes have been buying lots of land – and not for Casinos Two markers in the southwest corner of the ocean blufftop Westport Cemetery tell how Native people, once banished in both life and death, recently returned to rest in a favorite spot of their ancestors. “Our ancestors from this place lived in…
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Arts & Entertainment
Famous Rockers, “drag and dance party” among Fort Bragg options for Valentine’s Day
Mendo High kids offer “More legs, more fun’ improv tonight Two legendary 1970s-era rockers will perform this Valentine’s Day evening in Fort Bragg just down the street from one another. And both bands will donate the proceeds of their night to two different and highly esteemed local charities. David Hayes will perform with and for…
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Wine and food industries lead the way in raising $150k for Mendocino Coast Clinics with the Crab & Wine Festival
Will a decline in wine prices hurt local health care? Every year, the big top goes up and scrumptious aromas waft out. The tent that takes up the entire block next to Century 21 in Fort Bragg hosts one of the most important events of the year. The fundraiser for the Mendocino Coast Clinics’ Crab &…
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Fort Liberty is Fort Bragg again, but no more Braxxie!
Let the mail mixups resume! Fort Liberty in North Carolina is now Fort Bragg again, but without the infamous slaver Braxton Bragg. The new Fort Bragg name is sure to throw left and right off their games.. As a bonus, we all remember how some people get the two Fort Braggs mixed up, sometimes by…
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Environment
Mushroom hunter who survived frigid night in Jackson forest says be prepared even on a ‘short hike’
Bring a whistle with you every time! Linda Doar got knocked out when she got separated from her group and fell into a hole in Jackson Demonstration State Forest on Jan. 28. After surviving a frigid night she wants to help others be better prepared to survive the redwood wilderness. “They say don’t turn your…
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Rival youths tag Veterans Hall on Monday, gang-style graffiti out of control in Fort Bragg, cops want help.
Did the criminals read mendocinocoast.news?
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