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Fort Bragg City Council: New Rules

Rules to handle a summer of expected drought and the longtime challenge of chain businesses topped the Fort Bragg City Council's June 28 (Monday, last wee) agenda.  The council adopted both unanimously. The city's new…

The Georgia Pacific Millsite: A Deal In the Works

The Fort Bragg City Council has its third closed session discussion in less than a month scheduled for Monday night, over what appears to be a deal for the city to acquire the remaining millsite…

The Salt, The Sea, The Smell, The Software

The Fort Bragg City Council held its third face-to-face meeting with the public Monday night, after more than a year of lockdown Zoom democracy.  There were a couple of major items on the agenda, though…

Fort Bragg Notes (May 26, 2021)

CHAIN STORES — Monday evening, the Fort Bragg City Council considered extending its moratorium on formula businesses in the "inland zone" - basically the part of town not in the Coastal Zone, where development often…

Fort Bragg Notes (May 19, 2021)

The Fireman's Ball, Fort Bragg's annual Labor Day Weekend shindig and fundraiser, is on for 2021, after being COVID-cancelled last year. “We're going ahead with it until somebody tells us to stop,” Fort Bragg Fire…

Coast Notes

Fort Bragg: Boar's Nest update: James Lindsay got a 60-day reprieve in Ten Mile Justice Court last Thursday. Sixty days to finish clearing out his yard — or more accurately, the quarter acre of 20th…

Fort Bragg’s Looming Water Catastrophe

Taking the “sudden” out of the almost-certain water use restrictions to come this summer is part of the purpose of the water emergency ordinance the Fort Bragg City Council will consider at its meeting May…

Cleaning Up Jim’s Boar’s Nest

James Lindsay and Gary Bromaghim will probably always have to make an effort to get along. Bromaghim is the kind of guy who builds small fences around his planter boxes and keeps his back deck…

Fort Bragg Notes (April 21, 2021)

Baseball Baseball has returned to Patton Field, Fort Bragg High School's diamond in the woods. The decades-old ballfield, shaded by 60-foot redwoods, is named for Bill Patton, a longtime high school coach. Within a few…

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