The Fort Bragg Branch of the Mendocino County Library at Fort Bragg, Calif., in an undated 2022 photo. (Lucy Peterson/Bay City News)

FORT BRAGG, CA., 10/16/26 — An arson fire destroyed Fort Bragg’s library in September 1987. The Friends of the Fort Bragg Library turned an old funeral home on Laurel Street into a library, according to the group’s own history. The branch reopened in July 1988.

Now the Friends are building again, right next door.

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