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Fort Bragg Pomo tribe seeks BIA recognition
With some Native American leaders praising and others criticizing a new marine life protection area compromise, Eric Hontou is part…
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NOAA effort pushes more ocean fish farming
The Obama administration has launched an effort to increase fish farming in the nation”s oceans, as a way of creating…
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Radiation monitoring nixed
Fort Bragg City Hall never got the radiation monitoring equipment on its roof that was suggested following the Japanese nuclear…
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Lost Coast, other ocean protected areas celebrated
Despite ongoing questions about Native American uses, the final map of new marine protected areas is being saluted as a…
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PG&E to install SmartMeters despite opposition
Despite an ordinance imposing a temporary moratorium, PG&E has begun to install SmartMeters in Mendocino County. SmartMeters tie the electric…
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Salmon barbecue funds help create new stream restoration industry
As a board member of the Salmon Restoration Association, this reporter voted several years ago to spend $30,000 from the…
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World”s Largest Salmon Barbecue
When a vibrant Fort Bragg commercial fishing industry came together to create the World”s Largest Salmon Barbecue 40 years ago,…
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Obama ocean policy meeting set for Bay Area
A location and time has been set for the Obama Administration”s meeting in San Francisco to take input on ocean…
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Some tie cancer to cell phones, Wi-Fi and SmartMeters
Despite a recent World Health Organization reclassification of cell phone radiation as possibly carcinogenic, a Thursday meeting at the Lodge…
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MLPAI: Native gathering rights still in question
After two years of controversy, camaraderie, meetings and maps, the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPAI) process ends with the…
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Albatross returns from extinction”
A very rare “good luck” bird from Japan, which has endured more than a century of misfortune, delighted a Mendocino…
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Salmon Film Festival scheduled for 4th of July weekend
The first-ever Salmon Film Festival, co-sponsored by the Salmon Restoration Association, the City of Fort Bragg and North Coast Brewing…
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Abernathy cleanup costs $180k
On a trip up the Noyo River on this chilly Memorial Day weekend, perhaps the busiest site was Ralph Abernathy”s…
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Dredging not likely in 2011
With some boats sitting on the mud during minus tides, Noyo Harbor District would really like to dredge the mooring…
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Are jumbo squid gone or just shrinking?
Heralded as both a ruthless sea monster and a potential economic salvation to Fort Bragg”s fishing industry, the Humboldt, or…
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New proposal given for Baxman property
A last remnant of Fort Bragg”s industrial glory days may get new life and decades more of use — but…
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Bids rejected, school renovations on hold
At a special meeting last week, Fort Bragg Unified School District trustees rejected all bids for the modernization of Fort…
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PG&E abandons last study site
Five years ago, Pacific Gas and Electric Company came to Fort Bragg to sell wave energy as the key to…
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Hopes remain for 2011”s open salmon season
Yes, salmon fishing season has opened. But will anglers and commercial fishermen be able to “hook up” with the guests…
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Noyo Bowl to become Calvary Chapel, nursery
Noyo Bowl will become the first permanent home of 13-year-old Calvary Chapel, after the Fort Bragg Planning Commission unanimously granted…
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