NEWS ARTICLE ARCHIVE — in chronological order, with pagination below
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Arts & Culture
Businesses close shop, workers and kids stay home on Monday as part of nationwide effort, which had little to no advance publicity
On Monday, Feb 3, 2025 many businesses closed in Fort Bragg. Many people spent no money and kids stayed home from school, participating in a “A Day Without Immigrants”. This was part of a nationwide protest against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. The initiative aimed at demonstrating the fundamental role immigrants play in the U.S.…
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Fort Bragg
Fort Bragg Veterans Hall tagged with huge gang gibberish graffiti, at least two other locations hit
Fort Bragg has been struck in the heart by graffiti, ragging Veterans Memorial Hall with vile scribbling as tall as three feet high. Some of the scribble is the usual gang markings. I would ask people to have respect for common decency and not launch tirades about who did this until we hear what the…
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Fort Bragg
All new coming to Fort Bragg: Booze outdoors, Five new murals, lots of new Police Gizmos, including see-all cruiser cameras
The biggest news from this week’s Fort Bragg City Council meeting was that Fort Bragg will get FIVE MORE murals this year. Hurrah! Murals have become the latest art wave across California. Dreary office buildings have turned into art attractions everywhere since the pandemic started, which is when the city launched the program to expand…
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Bridges
Police Chief makes progress with Caltrans on Noyo Bridge suicide prevention
The Dec. 7 death of a Fort Bragg teen by probable suicide off the Noyo River Bridge may one day prevent other such deaths with signs, cameras, fencing above the rails, and possibly even a statehouse bill requiring fencing or nets on bridges over 80 feet. Caltrans plans suicide warning signs on the approaches to…
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Frankly Speaking
PG&E, Kmart make separate $6 million Mendo land deals – come along as I follow the money!
Kmart just sold the Ukiah Home Depot store-lease property to a publicly traded Michigan real estate firm for $6.3 million. Say what? Kmart? A remaining morsel of Kmart, called, Msci 2007 1 Q16 Ca Kmart Properties LLC, sold the old Kmart lease, now attached to the property housing Home Depot, to Agree Realty of the…
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Frankly Speaking
It is the end of the world as we know it, but I feel whine
KOZT is playing Blowing in the Wind by Bob Dylan. It was one of the first popular songs I remember after my initial fascination with Roger Miller. “How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry? The answer my friend is blowing in the wind.” I truly believed that something was…
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Frankly Speaking
Summer firecracker attack on a homeless Fort Bragg woman goes viral in 2025 [Updated]
On Saturday, several people I know shared a video showing a Fort Bragg woman getting out of her car and throwing a firecracker under the cart of a homeless woman. The woman screams when the projectile flames up, and then it goes out as the woman drives off. I was horrified and I was worried…
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Frankly Speaking
Could “Suicide Nets” Stop Future Noyo Jumpers?
Are “suicide nets” a solution that Fort Bragg can embrace? Mendocino County Safe Space Project offers help to teens. How do we solve the problem of teen suicide? By putting nets or another barrier on local high bridges? By having some sort of community hug forum for all parents and teens? Although Manny Machado, Caltrans…
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Body found under Noyo Bridge matches the clothing and jewelry of missing Fort Bragg teen Roy Mora
FORT BRAGG, CA., 12/23/24 — A body found under Noyo River Bridge Monday morning was wearing jewelry that belonged to missing teen Roy Mora, a press release from the Fort Bragg Police Department said. Mora’s mother identified the necklace, the press release said. Police said the body was not identifiable otherwise. An unidentified person found…
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Missing Fort Bragg teen’s phone found on night of disappearance
FORT BRAGG, CA., 12/19/24 — Missing teen Roy Mora’s phone was found on the Noyo River Bridge the night the 15-year-old disappeared. The man who found it said it was lying on the sidewalk in the middle of the bridge. On Tuesday Dec. 17, he surrendered the phone to a local coffee shop. Police are…
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Foul play not suspected in disappearance of Fort Bragg 15-year-old Roy Mora
FORT BRAGG, CA., 12/17/24 — Fort Bragg police have listened to a psychic, read hours of social media posts, and gone to experts to have cell phone data obtained by a search warrant analyzed. They have talked to Mendocino Transit Authority bus drivers and reviewed footage of people riding on MTA buses. None of it…
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Psychics, drones involved in massive community search for missing Fort Bragg teen Roy Mora
FORT BRAGG, CA., 12/16/24 — A massive public search for missing 15-year-old Roy Mora has been underway all weekend in Fort Bragg. Mora has not been seen since the evening of the Lighted Truck Parade on Saturday, Dec. 7. The public is working separately from Fort Bragg police, who are also investigating and searching on…
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Highway 1 closed for 4 hours after overturned truck accident (updated 12:45 p.m.)
UPDATED 12:45 p.m. 12/12/2024 – The California Highway Patrol (CHP) said State Route 1 20 miles north of Fort Bragg was reopened after four hours following the rollover of a heavy construction truck that dumped a load of sand and pinned the driver in the vehicle. The highway was closed from about 4:30 p.m. to…
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Police hope phone records search will help find Roy Mora, missing Fort Bragg teen
FORT BRAGG., CA., 12/11/24 – A search warrant was served this morning for cell phone data from 15-year-old Roy Mora, who vanished the evening of Dec. 7 during Fort Bragg’s Lighted Truck Parade. Coast Guard and canine search teams have been looking for him ever since. Police Chief Neil Cervenka said that finding the teen…
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City Council
Frankly Speaking — December 11, 2024
Should Tess Albin-Smith apologize for attack on fellow council-member Marcia Rafanan? Skunk Train snarl, Fort Bragg Forever’s frustration play roles in conservative shift A younger, and more conservative generation seized control at Monday night’s council meeting, shutting out the two veteran council-members. Tess Albin-Smith lashed out. She strongly criticized the speaking skills of fellow council…
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Fort Bragg
Fort Bragg Council picks Jason Godeke as new mayor
FORT BRAGG, CA., 12/10/24 — A divided Fort Bragg City Council picked two already serving councilmembers for city leadership positions: Jason Godeke as mayor and Marcia Rafanan as vice mayor. A Pomo, Rafanan becomes the first self-identified Indigenous person to serve as a leader of the council. But controversy flared Monday night at Fort Bragg’s…
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Fort Bragg
Police chief says search for missing Fort Bragg teen is top priority
FORT BRAGG, CA., 12/10/24 — The Coast Guard’s big helicopters searched Monday for a missing Fort Bragg teen, whose family reported him missing after Saturday’s Lighted Truck Parade in downtown Fort Bragg. Dog search teams were on the way, Fort Bragg’s Police Chief Neil Cervenka told the City Council Monday night. Roy, 15, left with…
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Earthquake bounces houses and causes damage in Fort Bragg and elsewhere
MENDOCINO CO., 12/5/24 – Mendocino and Humboldt counties were impacted by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake Thursday morning, prompting a state of emergency by the governor and a tsunami warning for much of coastal Northern California and Oregon that was later canceled. The quake struck at 10:44 a.m. off Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County and a tsunami…
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Noyo Harbor
7.0 Earthquake in Northern California Coast
Earth’s 5th largest earthquake of 2024 bounces houses, and causes damage in Fort Bragg. A 7.0 earthquake at 10:45am today caused damages up and down the Coast and has triggered a tsunami warning. Noyo Harbor has an evacuation order and the Coast Guard has taken all its boats to sea. The intial quake was 60…
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2024 Election
Math teacher wins Willits Council seat by 5 votes
WILLITS, CA., 12/4/24 — Willits High School math teacher Matthew Alaniz works with numbers every day, but the number 17 was one that seemed to count against him on Nov. 5. That was how many votes he was losing by when the election night vote count was tallied. But when all the mail-in votes were…
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