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KZYX News

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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6:29

County unlikely to purchase Old Howard

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2021/03/08

Mach 8, 2021 — About half the Caucasian population in Mendocino County has been vaccinated, compared to 16% of the Hispanic population. Still, with case rates dropping, Public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren says the county could enter the red tier by the middle of this month. The county Planning Commission unanimously approved a subdivision of parcels on Feliz Creek in Hopland for more winemaking, with the possibility of publicly available walking trails on a 40-acre parcel in the

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6:31

Save the Redwoods pays $24.7 million for conservation...

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2021/03/05

LITTLE RIVER - The largest coast redwood forest left in private family hands is now protected from subdivision and development permanently. This morning, Save the Redwoods League announced three conservation easements that will protect an extensive redwood forest, including a 300 acre section of true old growth, on the Mailliard Ranch, a 14,838 acre property in the Anderson Valley. Photography by John Birchard, Save the Redwoods League

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6:30

Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians requests...

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2021/03/05

On February 16, the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians requested a government-to-government consultation with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, better known as Cal Fire, to discuss the Tribes concern over the cumulative impact of around nine timber harvest projects lined up to take place in Jackson Demonstration State Forest over the next half decade. Jackson Demonstration, a 50,000 acre parcel of land, is the ancestral territory of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo,

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6:29

Murray to appear in court

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2021/03/04

March 4, 2021 — Former Ukiah Police Sergeant Kevin Murray is scheduled to appear in Mendocino County Superior Court today, to be arraigned on information. On January 26, District Attorney David Eyster filed a complaint against Murray, charging him with four felonies for crimes alleged to have occurred on November 25 of last year. The complaint says he entered an occupied motel room on South Orchard Avenue in Ukiah and violated the civil rights of a woman by intimidating her “under color of

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UVA steps up to get Spanish speakers vaccinated

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2021/03/02

March 2, 2021 — Spanish-language outreach about covid has fallen almost entirely to community groups and volunteers. In the Ukiah valley, UVA, or Ukiah Vecinos en Accion, has collaborated with Adventist Health to get Spanish speakers to vaccination events. Jackie Orozco, a member of UVA who runs the Spanish-language publication Periodico Al Punto, says the collaboration got off to a strong start, with UVA recruiting over 300 people in the Spanish-speaking community in the first two

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6:28

Robinson Creek Ponies have two sets of protectors

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2021/03/01

March 1, 2021 — The wild pony herds of Robinson Creek are part of the lore of Ukiah. They’re the descendants of Shetland mares and a Welsh stallion that escaped captivity in the middle of the last century. Over the decades, a few other breeds may have gotten involved, including some pintos and appaloosas. Now the vigorous little creatures are dots in the distance, a magical visitation, or a nuisance, damaging property and just waiting to cause a car crash on the 253. Even so, they are

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6:33

As massive die off of sunflower sea stars devastates...

KZYX News ·

2021/02/26

From Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, this is the KZYX news for Friday, February 26th. I’m Lana Cohen. “Well first if I can just tell you about the sunflower sea star and just how cool of a species it is in and of itself.” That’s Walter Heady, he’s a coastal marine ecologist for the California Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, an international national non profit. “Sunflower sea stars are one of the largest sea stars in the world. They can grow to be over three feet in diameter. They

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6:29

Measure B to have a strategic plan

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2021/02/25

February 25, 2021 — A day after CEO Carmel Angelo critiqued the Measure B Citizens Oversight Commission as having no common mission, the committee voted to hire a consultant to work out a long term strategic plan based on the Kemper Report.Commissioning that report was the first thing the committee did after electing Tom Allman as its first chair three years ago. The commission also formed an ad hoc committee to work with county supervisors to change its function. As Commissioner Shannon

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6:29

Angelo preparing to retire

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2021/02/25

February 24, 2021 — The Board of Supervisors approved a $200,000 increase to a contract with an armed guard service to monitor people in quarantine at hotels or Whitmore Lane, the county-owned quarantine facility just outside Ukiah city limits. The outbreak at Mountain View, a long-term care home in Ukiah, is up to 23 cases, with two people now deceased. Public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren said the outbreak grew rapidly during the full week it took for a positive staff member’s test result

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Great Redwood Trail, years of planning, moving ahead

KZYX News ·

2021/02/23

February 23, 2021 — As the pandemic drags on, the public demand for outdoor recreation has surged. At a town hall last week, Senator Mike McGuire invited panelists to talk about how they believe the Great Redwood Trail from Marin County to the Humboldt Bay will enhance outdoor recreation in the coming years. Some segments are already built, and some are underway. Some, like the one in Ukiah, will be built next to the abandoned railroad, while others will be built on top, if applications for

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Interview with Dr. Bessant Parker, Chief Medical...

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2021/02/22

February 22, 2021 — Adventist Health in Mendocino County has administered 10,875 doses of the covid-19 vaccine, four thousand of them second doses. Vaccine shipments did not come in last week due to storms across the country. The hospital, which receives its own allocation of the vaccine, has been focusing on administering it to people over the age of 70. According to data from the California Dept of Public Health, 22,091 people in Mendocino County have been vaccinated. Healthy Mendocino

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RCMS Town Hall covers vaccines, finance, need for...

KZYX News ·

2021/02/19

February 19, 2021 — Redwood Coast Medical Services in Gualala has administered about 3000 doses of the covid-19 vaccine on the Mendonoma coast, about ⅔ of them to residents of Mendocino county and ⅓ to Sonoma county residents in its coverage area. At a quarterly town hall meeting last night, RCMS CEO Ara Chakrabarti said the clinic had 500 doses of the Moderna vaccine from Sonoma county public health and the rest from Mendocino County Public health. About a thousand of the doses have gone

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More about vaccines with Lucresha Renteria

KZYX News ·

2021/02/17

February 17, 2021 — There are so many different ways to get a vaccine, but the supply is still scarce. Adventist hospital, which gets its own allocation of doses from the state, is holding age-based mass vaccine events. CVS pharmacy in Ukiah is taking appointments for people 65 and older. The county public health department is administering vaccines to people who are at risk because of their occupations. And the federally qualified health centers, which get all their supplies from the

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6:29

“Like the first day of school again”

KZYX News ·

2021/02/16

February 16, 2021 — The Ukiah Unified School District is opening up to a hybrid model of some in-person instruction for pre-kindergarten through sixth grade today. Pre-Kindergartners through second graders, fifth graders at Eagle Peak Middle School, and sixth graders at Pomolita Middle School, as well as some special day classes throughout the district. will be back in the classroom two mornings a week.There are no fifth graders at Pomolita, and the sixth grade at Eagle Peak will start the

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The miniature trees that live in ancient soil - a...

KZYX News ·

2021/02/15

From Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, this is the KZYX news for Monday, February 15th. I’m Lana Cohen. “So we are standing in a section of Jackson State Forest that basically is vegetated by Mendocino Cyprus and another name for that is the Pygmy Cyprus and what people have kind of called this area is the Pygmy Forest, what we botanists call it is the …” Only 2,000 acres of Pygmy ecosystem remains on the planet, and all of it lies along the Mendocino and northern Sonoma Coasts. The

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6:32

Communication key to promotores work

KZYX News ·

2021/02/14

February 9, 2021 — The Promotores de Salud, a Spanish-speaking community health workers program that’s funded by the county with supplemental money from the Community Foundation to buy groceries for families in isolation or quarantine, is heading into its third month. The promotores focus on getting information out to people who need it, often in person, by handing out fliers or calling people at home. Promotore Sergio Perez said people who need information about how to stay safe or get

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Government agency moves forward with plans to manage...

KZYX News ·

2021/02/12

In the past, there has been no groundwater regulation in Ukiah. Municipalities, agricultural users, and individuals could use their wells to pump as much water out of underground aquifers as they wanted. But That is about to change. Groundwater regulation in the Ukiah Valley is on its way. Yesterday, the Ukiah Valley Groundwater Sustainability Agency, which is in charge of figuring out how to manage the groundwater, had their first meeting of 2021 where they discussed how things are

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6:29

Board approves Barney contract

KZYX News ·

2021/02/11

February 11, 2021 — The Board of Supervisors approved a social media services contract with Liz Barney this week, with Supervisors Dan Gjerde and Ted Williams dissenting. The board also unanimously approved an ordinance providing for the abatement of hazardous vegetation and combustible material to reduce fire hazards. Another unanimous vote updated Measure H, the 2004 voter-approved initiative to ban GMOs in Mendocino County.

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Outbreak at Ukiah nursing home, Measure B manager out

KZYX News ·

2021/02/10

February 10, 2021 — A covid-19 outbreak at a Ukiah nursing home has infected eighteen people, according to Bekkie Emery, of the county’s Department Operations Center. The outbreak was identified at Mountain View Assisted Living and Memory Care on Saturday. Twelve residents and six staff have tested positive, and another staff member is considered a close contact and is in quarantine. Alyson Bailey, the program manager for the Measure B Citizens Oversight Committee, is no longer working in

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How’s the Dungeness crab season playing out this...

KZYX News ·

2021/02/09

2/9/21 — The Dungeness crab season is off to a pitiful start this year. Some crabbers pulled their gear out and threw the towel in just one day into the season.However, scientists, seasoned crabbers, and even those new to the business all say that is to be expected — the crab fishery has a very cyclical nature. Some years bring in plentiful crabs and subsequently, money. Others, not so much. This year is definitely a ‘not so much’ year. The decade leading up to this year brought a pretty

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