An award-winning newspaper for the people on the Mendocino Coast since 1877. The Mendocino Beacon began publishing in 1877, when William Heeser started what is today the oldest continuously operating newspaper on the Mendocino Coast. In 1889 Heeser started another paper in Fort Bragg, the Advocate, which he kept until 1892. His son, August “Auggie” Heeser, eventually succeeded William as …
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