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Food Bank supplies essential to low income retirees, working poor
Philip Oleana was much more interested in talking about his woodworking projects than the food he was about to get…
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Local crabbers wait after Bay Area oil spill
The recent oil spill that fouled Point Reyes could easily have also soiled the Mendocino Coast, said Richard Charter, co-chair…
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Sonoma supervisors study seizing wave energy process
Sonoma County supervisors are considering claiming all the waters off their coast so that their county residents, not big companies,…
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Counselor: Iraq vets get better welcome than Vietnam vets
Dr. Guy Grenny”s Sherwood Road home includes a traditional psychologist”s office, complete with a wall of textbooks and even the…
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Turkey Trot kicks off Food Bank fund-raising season
When I stopped in to launch my series of “Season of Sharing” articles as both a reporter and a client…
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County asks for official role in PG&E wave energy project
Mendocino County wants to be an official player in the Pacific Gas and Electric plan to develop wave energy off…
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Fort Bragg festival features wags, kisses and huckleberry cobbler
If there was ever any debate that Providence loves dogs, the perfectly timed sunshine that greeted the Huckleberries and Hounds…
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CELL feast shows off local farmers, chefs, locally-grown food
If the way to a community”s heart is through its stomach, the heartiest organization on the Mendocino Coast must be…
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City, county, others officially jump into wave energy fray
For those who, like Socrates, like questions better than answers, the Oct. 5 wave energy forum sponsored by the Alliance…
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Caspar Fest now has sustainable features
There were flying trapeze acts, a petting zoo, local musicians playing all day, a Noyo Food Forest feast, and it…
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Locals unsure, curious about wave energy
Pacific Gas & Electric is seeking $6 million from the Public Utilities Commission to study wave energy off Fort Bragg…
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Coast”s last big wooden bridge is kin to Minnesota bridge, Part 3 of 3
The continuing look at the 14 Shoreline Highway state bridges between Elk and the Ten Mile River has shown that…
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County urged to catch a ride on wave energy
Two inland members of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors didn”t think it was worth sending a top county staffer…
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Locals say they love and fear Otis Johnson Park
With towering redwood trees and quiet, fern-filled canyons, Otis Johnson Wilderness Park draws many locals for its meditative qualities. A…
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Post-war bridges are showing their age, Part 2 of 3
A search for a missing Caspar Creek Bridge road sign found it deeply entangled in vines beneath massive but mostly…
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Skatepark will not be on school district property
By a 2-to-1 vote last Thursday night, the Fort Bragg Unified School District Board rejected the idea of a skatepark…
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City seeking input on future of Otis Johnson Park
If there is such a thing as a best-kept secret in Fort Bragg, Otis Johnson Wilderness Park is it. The…
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Search for local bridge data reveals national information gap, Part 1 of 2
Federal and state government agencies collect valuable data on the quality and safety of every publicly-owned bridge in the nation,…
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Schools seek quick decision on skate park
School, city and recreational officials are determined to get neighbors of a proposed portable skate park on Dana Street to…
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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…
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