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KZYX News Department

KZYX reporters and independent journalists cover local news for Mendocino County, California, Monday through Friday in six and a half minute reports. The KZYX News podcast is available for redistribution under CC BY 4.0, or the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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Magdaleno lawyer discusses case

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2021/04/08

April 7, 2021 — The family of Gerardo Magdaleno, the mentally ill man who was beaten by Ukiah police last week, is preparing to sue the city. Their lawyer, Isaak Schwaiger, is a civil rights attorney who specializes in police brutality cases. The case has not been filed yet, but Schwaiger says “It is primarily an excessive force lawsuit...but it also has a component that’s derived from the Americans with Disabilities Act.” Another claim will be inadequate training at the UPD for dealing

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6:29

Magdaleno supporters decry police violence, call for...

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2021/04/05

April 5, 2021 — A little over a dozen people marched on Civic Center in Ukiah Saturday, calling for an end to police brutality and more mental health services in the wake of Gerardo Magdaleno’s beating at the hands of Ukiah police officers. On April first, Magdaleno, a schizophrenic bipolar man, took some non-prescription drugs after running out of his psychiatric medications. He was wandering nude on south state street when an encounter with Ukiah Police Officers escalated into officers

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Ukiah Police officers beat naked mentally ill man

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2021/04/03

April 2, 2021 —In the wake of a summer of protests against police brutality, two short videos from behind a shop window show four Ukiah police officers repeatedly punching a man whose sisters have identified as Gerardo Magdaleno. One shows the nude man getting up off the ground and walking slowly toward an officer. The officer shouts at him repeatedly to get back on the ground. The video is blurry, but according to Ukiah police logs at that address, Officer Saul Perez responded a few

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6:29

The best part about volunteering

KZYX News ·

2021/04/03

April 2, 2021 — Yesterday, every Californian over the age of fifty became eligible for a vaccine. Later this month, every Californian over the age of 16 will be eligible. There haven’t been any clinics for first doses for weeks, but a combination of paid staff and volunteers are busy at second dose clinics around the county. With limited or unknown supplies, getting volunteers where they can be useful is a logistical challenge. Molly Rosenhal is a program coordinator with the NCO volunteer

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6:29

Why oak woodlands matter

KZYX News ·

2021/04/03

April 1, 2021 — Spring is here, and new growth is everywhere. But unlike the fields of yellow mustard that signal the beginning of the short season, some of that growth is old and slow. Like an 18-inch diameter, breast-height scrub oak, which could have been on the landscape since your great-great-great grandmother was born. Jennifer Riddell and Andrea Davis, fellow co-presidents of the Sanhedrin Chapter of the California Native Plant Society, recently encouraged the Board of Supervisors

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6:29

Dr. Doohan on the Ranch Proposal for a psychiatric...

KZYX News ·

2021/03/31

March 31, 2021 — With Old Howard Hospital decisively off the table for use as a psychiatric health facility, the Board of Supervisors last week directed county staff to look into two other possibilities. One is using the property at Whitmore Lane in Ukiah, formerly an alternative quarantine site, now in need of a $2.8 million roof. The other is finding a parcel somewhere in the unincorporated part of the county, purchasing it, and building a psychiatric facility where there would be fewer

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6:33

Local whale watchers contribute to a global species...

KZYX News ·

2021/03/26

POINT ARENA, 3/26/21 - When the weather is favorable, Teresa (Tree) and Scott Mercer drive out to the end of the windy Point Arena bluff, right near the lighthouse, where they position themselves above the rocky shore line in two camping chairs pointing south, out to sea. Snacks at the ready and binoculars in hand, they settle in for a four to seven hour stint of whale watching. The Mercers, who are both retired, are whale watching experts. They actually met on a whale watching boat

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6:29

"Ranch concept" would deplete Measure B funds

KZYX News ·

2021/03/24

March 23, 2021 — A detailed proposal for building a psychiatric health facility in a rural part of the county was filed under public expression on the agenda for yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, though the item came up Monday during Measure B discussions. On Monday, the board asked staff to come back with two proposals for a psychiatric health facility, one called the Ranch concept for a rural puff, and the other for Whitmore Lane. Earlier this month, Deputy Public Health Officer

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6:29

"The sandwich needs to be a puff"

KZYX News ·

2021/03/24

March 22, 2021 — The Board of Supervisors agreed to work on dedicating staff and funding to an economic development program run by West Business Development Center. Supervisors also agreed to spend Measure B money to remodel the behavioral health training center in Redwood Valley, purchase a gun locker for the site, and reimburse the sheriff’s office for crisis intervention training for law enforcement. And, now that the county is in the fourth year of collecting the half-cent sales tax,

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6:29

Planning Commission recommends expansion between one...

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2021/03/22

March 22, 2021 — At a meeting that lasted nearly twelve hours, the Planning Commission agreed to recommend some of the expansion that was the main point of contention in 302 letters and four hours of public comment. The Commission held two hearings on Friday, one on a cannabis facilities ordinance proposed by the Board of Supervisors, and another on a proposed major change to cultivation policy. Phase III is likely going to be replaced with a new chapter in the county code, which its

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6:30

No Getaway for Hopland; perfect storm of absences...

KZYX News ·

2021/03/19

March 19, 2021 — The Planning Commission came up short at its regular meeting yesterday, with only three of the seven commissioners available for an application to extend a cell phone tower that generated about twenty letters of opposition. Without a quorum, though, the item was automatically permissible, due to federal law about the length of time allowed to review the application. A proposal for a campsite in Hopland was roundly rejected. The Commission is meeting again today to discuss

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Proposed ordinances 'decoupled'

KZYX News ·

2021/03/18

March 18, 2021 — The Board of Supervisors decoupled a proposed oak woodlands ordinance from the proposed Phase III cannabis ordinance last week and sent it to committee, pending an inventory of the oak woodlands in the county. Michael Jones, the UC Cooperative Extension Forest Advisor for Mendocino, Lake and Sonoma Counties, said the most recent data puts the local acres of oak woodlands and mixed hardwood canopy at 650,000, which is one of the highest percentages of such coverage in the

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6:27

20 children among those accepted at Project Homekey

KZYX News ·

2021/03/17

March 17,2021 — A former motel in Ukiah is getting closer to housing more than 60 people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Last week, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve a contract with Rural Community Housing and Development Corporation to manage Live Oak Apartments, which the county purchased in September with state funds under Project Homekey, a program to house the most vulnerable. Megan van Sant, a senior program manager working on housing and homelessness

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Fire and water departments could use PG&E settlement...

KZYX News ·

2021/03/16

March 16, 2021 — The Board of Supervisors is facing the question of how to spend the $22.6 million of settlement money from PG&E for damage caused by the fires of 2017. Last week’s list of proposed projects, copied and pasted from the list of capital improvement projects in the mid-year budget review, did not include any projects that were specific to Redwood Valley or Potter Valley, where the wind-driven fires raged for days. Don Dale, who’s been the Redwood Valley/Calpella fire

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Cannabis policy not based on science, according to...

KZYX News ·

2021/03/15

March 15, 2021 — Cannabis is in the spotlight this week. With the Planning Commission scheduled to hear about major changes to the Phase IIII cannabis ordinance this Friday, informational events about various aspects of cannabis have been highly visible. The Cannabis Business Association of Mendocino County is hosting an event this afternoon at 4pm on the MendoVoice facebook page, about a proposal to align the county’s regulations more closely with the state’s by introducing a discretionary

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6:28

The beginning of wildflower season - an exploration...

KZYX News ·

2021/03/13

Teresa Sholars has lived on the Mendocino Coast for 50 years, studying the diverse ecosystems that make up our small corner of the planet. Yesterday, Sholars took me out to the headlands, the flat bluffs that overlook the pacific, to look at the wildflowers which are just starting to appear, marking the beginning of spring.

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Whitmore Lane's many possibilities—once it gets a new...

KZYX News ·

2021/03/11

March 11, 2021 — A property on Whitmore Lane, just outside Ukiah city limits, is out of commission even as its potential uses multiply. Last March, CEO Carmel Angelo commandeered a former skilled nursing facility to use as an alternate care site for people who did not have another safe place to isolate or quarantine during the pandemic. According to a CEO report from April of last year, “the monthly lease rate of $31,550 is approximately $415 per bed, per month.” That comes out to 76 beds,

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Despite trolls, unmoderated MCN listserve is worth...

KZYX News ·

2021/03/11

Jim Culp talks to longtime members of the county-wide, unmoderated community forum, the MCN list.

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Supervisors discuss how to use PG&E settlement funds

KZYX News ·

2021/03/10

March 10, 2021 — Public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren reported to the Board of Supervisors yesterday that, if current covid case metrics hold for another week, the county can look forward to transitioning out of the purple tier and into the much less restrictive red tier next week. The county received its first shipment of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine yesterday, and is considering using it for people who are transient and homebound. Vaccine coordinator Darcie Antle noted

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Preparing for the worst — Cal Fire fears 2021 could...

KZYX News ·

2021/03/09

At the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection’s eight-hour-long meeting Wednesday, Cal Fire directors discussed the upcoming 2021 fire season, timber harvest plan sales, fire safe regulations, and carbon sequestration.

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