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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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Prominent Ukiah area water managers jockey for seat...

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2021/01/11

1/11/2021 - Last water year was the third driest on record in the upper Russian River watershed. In downtown San Francisco, the 2020 calendar year was the second driest since record keeping began in 1850, and forecasts are showing a dry January on the horizon. Needless to say, we may be barreling towards drought in 2021, which could lead to curtailments in water use like we saw in 2014. That year, entire municipalities lost their access to water. In anticipation of this, prominent leaders

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We start with a presumption of innocence: criminal...

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2021/01/11

January 11, 2021 — Last Monday, Public Health, Adventist Health Ukiah Valley, and the City of Ukiah administered 830 doses of the Moderna vaccine that were at risk of losing viability after a freezer failure at the hospital. They did it in about two hours, and had to turn people away. Not everybody who wanted one got it, but sometimes it helps to make a little bit of noise, as Anthony Adams, a lawyer in the public defenders office found after he called in to the board of supervisors meeting

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Sheriff asked for more data before requesting funding...

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2021/01/07

January 7, 2020 — The sheriff’s presentation before the board of supervisors this week elicited critiques of his data, a request for a resident deputy in Covelo, and demands for him to issue a formal apology for including an image of a hog-tied Black man on a PowerPoint slide. Sheriff Matt Kendall was asking the board to give him the go-ahead to request funding from the state to hire, train and equip ten more deputies to combat organized crime and cartel grows, which he says have

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6:30

Board hears after-action review of freezer fail

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2021/01/06

Jan 6, 2021 — Yesterday was the first board of supervisors meeting of the new year, and the first one ever for First District Supervisor Glenn McGourty and Second District Supervisor Maureen Mulheren, who were sworn in on Monday. Judson Howe, the new CEO for the local Adventist hospitals, was also on hand for a bit of an after-action review of a malfunctioning hospital freezer that set off a mad dash to vaccinate hundreds of people in two hours. There were 830 Moderna vaccines in that

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6:30

Freezer fails at hospital as new supes sworn in

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2021/01/05

January 5, 2021 — Two new county supervisors were sworn in yesterday morning, shortly before the compressor went out in a freezer containing 830 doses of the Moderna vaccine at the Ukiah Valley Adventist Hospital. Adventist Health and the county’s public health department get separate allocations of vaccines from the state. So far, the county has received one batch of 975 doses from Pfizer and one batch of 400 from Moderna. Most of the county’s allocation of 400 doses was in the

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6:29

Jail outbreak continues, has spread to women's jail

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2021/01/04

January 4, 2021 — The covid outbreak at the jail continues and has spread to the women’s facility. A total of 90 people have tested positive at the jail since the outbreak began on December 19th, including 77 inmates and 13 staff. As of Sunday night, there are 59 active cases among inmates and seven active among deputies and other staff. Eighteen inmates have recovered or been released, and six staff have completed their isolation. The population at the jail fluctuates, but it’s around 250

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6:29

Vaccine rolling out in midst of outbreak, surge

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2021/01/01

January 1, 2021 — The coronavirus vaccine has arrived during a surge in covid-19 cases and an outbreak at the jail that has tripled over the course of the week. There are currently 47 inmates in the jail who have tested positive. Nine employees have tested positive since the outbreak started on December 19, and four of them have made it through their isolation period. Another twelve inmates who tested positive have been released, for a total of 68 people so far who are known to have the

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6:28

Saying goodbye to 2020

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2021/01/01

People on the streets of Mendocino Village talk about how to say goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021.

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6:29

No applicants yet for Ukiah City Council seat

KZYX News ·

2020/12/30

December 30, 2020 — The Ukiah City Council will be short one member as soon as Second District Supervisor-elect Maureen Mulheren leaves the council to take her seat on the Board of Supervisors next week. Earlier this month, the Council voted to fill her seat by appointment rather than special election. The council has replaced departing members by appointment at least since 1947, according to a document put together by City Clerk Kristine Lawler. In 2013, when Mari Rodin left, the council

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6:29

Food banks meeting increased demand

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2020/12/29

December 29, 2020 — Food banks are a lifeline for people living on the financial edge: seniors, families, and those with little job security. We’ll hear from volunteers at three food banks from three very different communities in Mendocino County: Gualala, Anderson Valley, and Ukiah.

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Eleven coast churches collaborate on virtual...

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2020/12/28

Listen to the many contributions of area churches as they present a virtual Christmas concert on youtube.

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Incidental fentanyl exposure a myth, say researchers

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2020/12/24

December 24, 2020 — The synthetic opioid fentanyl is a huge problem in the US right now, according to Sheriff Matt Kendall, who sees some of the social effects first-hand. “It is the biggest problem,” he says, because fentanyl is so much cheaper than methamphetamine or heroin to make. “I believe there’s more fentanyl on the streets right now than heroin,” he added. “This is going to be the new epidemic.” It’s a scary substance. In 2018, the CDC, in partnership with the National Institute of

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Another year, another fight over the future of the...

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2020/12/23

MENDOCINO, 12/23/2020 - Cal Fire has six timber harvest plans lined up for Jackson Demonstration State Forest. The first plan is slated to begin this spring. Jackson is California's largest state forest and is home to a significant amount of the states redwood trees. Local conservation group, the Mendocino Trail Stewards, doesn't want the logging to happen. They think that, considering climate change, the forest should be left alone, only used for carbon sequestration and non motorized

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6:26

Miranda Ramos shares her Covid-19 experience

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2020/12/22

As a health care professional, Miranda Ramos has a heightened awareness of limiting exposure to the virus. Nevertheless, she contracted the disease, and chose to share her experience online, and with the KZYX audience.

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Time is running out for legal cannabis industry

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2020/12/21

December 21, 2020 — The legal cannabis industry in Mendocino County is more uncertain than ever, with a local ordinance that does not set up local growers for success in getting their annual licenses from the state. Those will be required by the first of the year in 2022. The local program started out in the ag department, which is on its fifth ag commissioner since the regulatory process started, then moved over to planning and building, where Megan Dukett is now the second cannabis

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6:28

Vaccines are here. What's next?

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2020/12/19

December 18, 2020 — The covid-19 vaccine is here, but leading medical experts urge continuing safety measures, like mask-wearing and staying home for the holidays. The list of who can be vaccinated in phase 1b, the next round of shots, is still being developed, but Lori Nezhura, co-chair of the vaccine task force at the California Office of Emergency Services, says food and ag workers, emergency workers, and people in the field of education are likely to be on it. We’re in phase 1a now,

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Covid-19 vaccines arrive in Mendocino County

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2020/12/18

December 18, 2020 — Uyen Thai, a pharmacist resident at Adventist Health Ukiah Valley, says she felt honored to be chosen for the historic role she played yesterday afternoon, when the first recipients of the first doses of the covid 19 Pfizer vaccine to hit the county rolled up their sleeves for her and her colleague Jenny Nyugen so they could be immunized in front of their friends, colleagues, and most of the English-speaking press corps of inland Mendocino County. Dr. Mark Luato, who

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Mendo Fire Safe Council rolls out new video series on...

KZYX News ·

2020/12/18

Globally, wildfires are getting more frequent and more extreme, and in Mendocino County it’s no different. Actually, wildfire is part of the natural ecosystem process in Mendocino, so it’s an inevitable part of life in this region of the north coast. And climate change, a failure to manage forests properly, and building in wildland-urban-interfaces has only made the situation worse. Earlier this month, In response to this issue, the Mendocino Fire Safe Council rolled out a video series to

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Covid update to the Board of Supervisors

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2020/12/16

December 16, 2020 — Supervisors Carre Brown and John McCowen were honored at their last Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday, with Senator Mike McGuire and Assemblyman Jim Wood sharing a retrospective of their accomplishments. Public Health Officer Dr. Andrew Coren disclosed new school guidance loosening restrictions on cohorts, which Ukiah Unified School District Superintendent Deb Kubin said will allow schools to open to in-person instruction for one period per day. That guidance can be

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6:29

Williams discusses upcoming cannabis town hall

KZYX News ·

2020/12/15

December 15, 2020 — The cannabis ordinance has been a puzzle for years: how to move culltivators through the county permit process and on to a state license, which will be required as of January first, 2022? The state requires site-specific CEQA review for every grow, which the county does not. State agencies and the county are short on staff, and there are over a thousand cultivators waiting in the queue to get their county permits. The Board of Supervisors formed an ad hoc committee,

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