Fort Bragg News

Two private companies will soon offer the mental health services the county has offered for decades after the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the two contracts, worth a combined $15.5 million.

The drug trafficking case started in Lawrence, Kansas as an investigation into a $17 million drug distribution ring involving an ex-con and his brother.

Caller at the Ukiah Municipal Airport reported at 6:38 p.m. Thursday that "unwanted subjects" were near the B-17 Bomber there.

The news that Mendocino Coast Television must give its building back to Footlighters stunned supporters of local cable access television and has created both positive suggestions and acrimony.

Four of the seven Mendocino County residents charged in a Kansas federal court for drug trafficking have pleaded guilty and another has a plea change hearing scheduled this week.

FORT BRAGG – Train tunnel No. 1 on the old California Western Railroad has endured a lot of punishment since it was hacked out of the serpentine and metasandstone rock east of Fort Bragg by Chinese and Italian laborers a century ago.

Today's WRAL.com said that Demeo, 23, died on base at Ft. Bragg's Womack Army Medical Center.

Caller at the corner of West Standley and Pine streets reported at 7:28 a.m. Tuesday that a transient was circling her car and not letting her out of it.

A Fort Bragg man accused of beating a 5-month-old baby girl to death in December while she was in his care was bound over for trial in Mendocino County Superior Court Wednesday.

The Occidental Hotel in this place changed hands last Wednesday. Frank Gorman of Cuffey's Cove having purchased the stock, fixtures, etc., from C. C. Johnson, who has been proprietor for a year or more.

The news that Mendocino Coast Television must give its building back to Footlighters stunned supporters of local cable access television and has created both positive suggestions and acrimony.

A military judge has ordered two U.S. Army generals to testify about whether they were pressured by superiors to charge another general with the alleged sexual assault of a female captain.

College of the Redwoods campuses from Crescent City to Fort Bragg graduated students on Saturday and Humboldt State University's ceremonies are set for this coming weekend, making it a busy weekend from restaurants, stores and hotels.

The preliminary hearing was put off until next week Thursday morning in Mendocino County Superior Court for a Fort Bragg man accused of beating a 5-month-old baby girl to death in December while she was in his care.

Fifty-five students at College of the Redwoods Mendocino Coast Education Center will be honored this Sunday, May 12, during commencement exercises at Cotton Auditorium in Fort Bragg.

In general, salmon fishing remains strong and steady in the Santa Cruz area. The same cannot be said for the remainder of the coast.

Located at 248 E. Laurel St., the former Footlighters building has been used by MCTV since 2007.

Fort Bragg was again visited last Saturday by fire, which, though, not entailing such general losses as the one of last fall, was great in its aggregate loss, and resulted in the total destruction of the splendid mill of the Fort Bragg Redwood Co.

During a visit to the former Georgia Pacific mill site and future Noyo Center for Science and Education, the Fort Bragg City Council chose the locations for two prominent buildings.

Heidi Kraut has won this week's special mail-in election to fill the Fort Bragg City Council seat left vacant when Dan Gjerde was elected to the county Board of Supervisors.