FORT… ??? America has once again discovered the "other" Fort Bragg — the one in California that was somehow named for a Confederate general before the Civil War even started. Braxton Bragg was in fact…
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ONGOING DEMONSTRATIONS On Tuesday, June 2, hundreds of demonstrators — peaceful, cheering, singing, chanting, mostly young, mostly female — lined Main Street in Fort Bragg, joining in nationwide “Lockdown Tuesday” protests calling for racial justice…
With the nation's major cities rocked by nearly a week of fiery protest over racism and police violence, and Sonoma County embroiled in a full-on confrontation between Sheriff Mark Essick and just about the entire…
FOOD BANKS across the country are groaning under unprecedented demand during the COVID-19 lockdown. The Redwood Empire Food Bank in Santa Rosa, the North Coast's hub for emergency food distribution, made an appeal last week…
With about a million and a half dollars worth of spending cuts made from its $3.3 million general fund budget — mostly layoffs, furloughs, early retirement, cancelled job offers, and salary and benefit givebacks from…
Saying tourism has taken a direct hit from COVID-19 is the understatement of the year. Starting on March 25, 2020, tourism in California, certainly on the Mendocino Coast, effectively vanished. And while motels in Ukiah…
After 49 years as a publicly run enterprise, the Mendocino Coast's only hospital and largest employer was handed over to California's largest rural healthcare provider at a balloon- and sunshine-filled ceremony May 4. The ceremony…
The Redwood Coast Inn is looking shabby these days, but it has a special place in Fort Bragg's heart. Partly that's because, even now, a fair number of Fort Bragg people were born there. The…
National figures and national issues take up most of the hot air, but most actual government we experience is local. Right now that experience is a state of shock. Calling COVID-19 a stress test for…