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🌱 How secure is Fort Bragg’s main homeless shelter right now?
And check out Noyo Center Science Social: What Washed Ashore in 2024 — Noyo Center for Marine Science on the Fort Bragg Patch calendar

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- How secure is Fort Bragg’s main homeless shelter right now?
Also on today's calendar: Adult Book Group and 5 more events.
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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Tuesday: Occasional rain, with a high of 57 and low of 53 degrees.
- Wednesday: A couple of morning showers, temps: high: 62, low: 53.
- Thursday: A few showers in the morning, with a high of 61 and low of 57 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Mendocino Coast Hospitality Center celebrates 40 years of service (ukiahdailyjournal.com) — Mendocino Coast Hospitality Center, backed by the City of Fort Bragg, local clinics, and the Fort Bragg Food Bank, is marking 40 years of helping coastal residents out of homelessness. Staff with lived experience run shelters, a wellness center, and street medicine, but looming state and federal funding changes threaten these Fort Bragg-based services that many vulnerable neighbors rely on daily.
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📸 Around Fort Bragg
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Fort Bragg
★ Featured events ★
- Noyo Center Science Social: What Washed Ashore in 2024 — Noyo Center for Marine Science
Noyo Center For MARINE Science, 338 N Main St, Fort Bragg
5:00 pm
Wednesday December 17
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Other local events
- Holiday Show
Partners Gallery , 45062 Ukiah St , Mendocino
11:00 am - A Woman’s Place Was Everywhere
Kelley House Museum , 45007 Albion Street , Mendocino
11:00 am - Holiday Show
Partners Gallery , 45062 Ukiah St , Mendocino
11:00 am - Adult Book Group
Fort Bragg Branch of Mendocino County Library , 499 E Laurel St , Fort Bragg
3:00 pm - Open Mic Night at Tall Guy
Tall Guy Brewing , 362 n. Franklin St. , Fort Bragg
7:00 pm - Holiday Show
Partners Gallery , 45062 Ukiah St , Mendocino
11:00 am - A Woman’s Place Was Everywhere
Kelley House Museum , 45007 Albion Street , Mendocino
11:00 am
Wednesday December 17
Thursday December 18
Friday December 19
📣 Fort Bragg Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Holiday Show
Partners Gallery , 45062 Ukiah St , Mendocino
11:00 am - The Kybalion
SPIRIT HOUSE CENTER FOR ATTITUDINAL HEALING , 16550 Franklin Rd , Fort Bragg
11:30 am - FB - LEGO®
Fort Bragg Branch of Mendocino County Library , 499 E Laurel St , Fort Bragg
2:00 pm - A Woman’s Place Was Everywhere
Kelley House Museum , 45007 Albion Street , Mendocino
11:00 am
Tuesday December 16
Thursday December 18
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- The end of half a century of a family owned business in Fort Bragg is coming to a close the end of this month.
My mom Gayle Bowman first opened Well House Needlepoint in 1975 in the Guest House Museum upstairs when Daly’s had their Boutique downstairs. She… (Nextdoor Fort Bragg) - I am wondering if anyone else have had a message from Google saying that you are out of storage.
The message said Google is going to stop my email unless I buy space in there cloud. I have no email in any boxes, inbox or trash or... all empty… (Nextdoor Hwy 20)
- Government Jobs posted a job opening for Temporary - Custodian - Coast Center - Pool in Fort Bragg. Apply here.
- SAS Retail Services posted a job opening for Retail Merchandiser Team Lead in Fort Bragg. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Fort Bragg here.
🗞 Nearby News
Mendocino
- Restaurants open on Christmas in Mendocino County • The Mendocino Voice (mendovoice.com)
- How Mendocino's early saloons shaped a town — and sparked local prohibition (localnewsmatters.org)
- Air Force technicians safely disarm WWII-era practice bomb discovered near Gualala (localnewsmatters.org)
Laytonville
- O'Neill: Balmy weather gave us time to install new planting beds • The Mendocino Voice (mendovoice.com)
Willits
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