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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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Celebrating La Virgen in 2020

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2020/12/14

December 14, 2020 — December 12 is an important day for local Catholics, who celebrated the birthday of the Vigin of Guadalupe this Saturday in their cars, with no singing, no live music, and lots of social distance. It was unlike any of the previous celebrations, which were sometimes lavish, with parades to the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds and mariachi bands and lights and food and a Mass before dawn. Carlos Jacinto, a local playwright who helps organize church events and theatrical

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Historic cemetery under dispute

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2020/12/11

December 11, 2020 — A narrow section of land long claimed by the historic cemetery in Redwood Valley is under dispute, with a neighboring property owner saying the land is his and he wants it back. Now the district wants to find the descendants of people it believes are buried in unmarked graves in the fifteen by hundred foot strip.

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What will Ukiah look like in 2040? The city is...

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2020/12/10

The year 2040 may seem like the distant future. But the Ukiah is already making decisions about what the city will look like in 20 years. Currently, the city of Ukiah is working on it’s 2040 general plan. A general plan is a document that outlines the goals for the cities or towns creating them. The State of California requires local jurisdictions to update or re-write their general plans periodically. The 2040 general plan has the potential to define Ukiah’s future. It will lay out how

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Board of Supervisors discusses covid, other disasters

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2020/12/09

December 9, 2020 — The Board of Supervisors spent the whole morning yesterday on the novel coronavirus update, with reports from Dr. Coren and Dr. Doohan, high-level hospital staff, and the CEO of Redwood Community Services, who reported on the outbreak at Building Bridges, the homeless shelter and day program in Ukiah. Yesterday, 37 new cases were reported countywide, and the day before, another covid patient died on the South Coast, bringing the death count up to 24. Jason Wells, the

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6:28

PG&E rate increase coming on March 1

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2020/12/08

12/8/2020 - If you’re a PG&E customer, you should start preparing yourself for an increase in your electricity bill. On March 1st, a rate hike of 8 percent will take effect. The boost was approved by the California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday, December 3rd. And According to reporting done by the Associated Press, it will result in an average increase of $13.44 per month, or 161 dollars and 28 cents per year for residential customers across Northern California. Rate

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New technology increases water availability and...

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2020/12/08

12/8/2020 - Lead Park Ranger at Lake Mendocino, Poppy Lozzoff, admitted that the water level at the lake looks terrifyingly low. “As a visitor, it is a dramatic site to see so much exposed ground,” she wrote in an email.Lake Mendocino currently sits at 712 ft above sea level. That’s very low. But despite years of dry conditions and the fact that California water year 2019 to 2020 was the third driest in the Upper Russian River watershed in recorded history, it’s not the lowest the lake has

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Juan Orozco is Ukiah's first Latino mayor

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2020/12/07

December 7, 2020 — On Wednesday night, Ukiah City Councilman Juan Orozco became the city’s first Latino mayor. He took over from newly re-elected Councilman Douglas Crane, and will serve in the role for one year. Orozco has been on the council since 2018. Josefina Duenas, who was newly elected on November third, was seated on the Council for a four-year term. Orozco was born in Mexico and came to Mendocino County with his sister as a young man. He worked in the vineyards and orchards of

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High turnout in Mendocino City Community Services...

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2020/12/03

December 3, 2020 — More than 90% of the electorate turned out to vote in the race for board members in the Mendocino City Community Services District, which oversees sewer, water, and streetlights in the town of Mendocino. Given the famous saying about whiskey and water, it’s not hard to see why.

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MCHC planning winter homeless shelter

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2020/12/02

December 2, 2020 — For years, the Mendocino Coast Hospitality Center has worked with local faith groups to run a winter homeless shelter, which houses 15-24 people in addition to the year-round shelter and the transitional housing programs. This year, with pandemic safety measures in place, the year-round shelter has reduced its beds from 24 to 17, and the center is scrambling to find staff to operate the winter shelter at a new site. The Board of Supervisors recently passed an urgency

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Allman swears in as Shelter Cove's new resident deputy

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2020/12/01

December 1, 2020 — Last week, retired sheriff Tom Allman announced on Facebook that he would start serving as a peace officer in Humboldt County, where he was born and raised. The Humboldt County sheriff, William Honsal, wrote in his own statement that Allman would end a nearly decade-long vacancy in the Lost Coast Resident Deputy position, which includes the Shelter Cove, Whitethorn and Mattole Valley communities. Honsal added that Allman will spend about four days a week on the Lost

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Mendocino Village church creates "virtual choir"

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2020/11/30

For church choirs, vocal ensembles and professional musicians, one of the hardest sacrifices of the pandemic is not being able to sing together. Jim Culp explores how one local church choir has implemented unfamiliar technologies to create an even better choir, virtually.

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Promotores de Salud working to prevent infection

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2020/11/30

November 30, 2020 — Earlier this month, the Board of Supervisors approved a six-month contact for a Promotores de Salud, or Spanish-speaking community health worker program with Nuestra Alianza, a non-profit organization in Willits. The contract, for up to $158,700, includes one lead community health worker and five part time promotores, who will provide Spanish-language education about covid-19 to the community that’s been hardest hit by the virus. A team of professional public health

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Final election results are in

KZYX News ·

2020/11/26

November 26, 2020 — Assessor Clerk-Recorder Katrina Bartolomie has something to be thankful for this week, with all the votes tallied as of late Tuesday afternoon. Glenn McGourty and Maureen Mulheren won their supervisorial races decisively, with McGourty claiming 57.7% of the vote in the first district and Mulheren winning in the second with 60.64%. But Steve Scalmanini, who was the second-highest vote getter in the Ukiah City Council race on election night, dropped to fourth place, losing

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As California fire insurance prices skyrocket,...

KZYX News ·

2020/11/25

When Ed Keller opened a letter from his home insurance company announcing that his policy had been cancelled and that purchasing a new one would cost four times what he had paid in the past, he was sure there had been a mistake. Bewildered, he picked up the phone and called his provider, Mark Davis Insurance, to clear things up, only to hear from a company representative that it was not an error at all. Keller’s insurance premium had been hiked up by around 400%, from around $1,000 to just

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What does it take to deliver in-person learning...

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2020/11/24

November 24, 2020 — Mendocino County is solidly in the purple tier, which means that most schools are closed, with narrow exceptions for extracurricular activities and students facing certain hardships. But some small schools got their waivers in over the summer and received the nod from the state to provide in-person instruction. We’ll hear from Sandy Peters, the administrator at Deep Valley Christian School in Redwood Valley, about what it takes to deliver all in-person instruction; and

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Klamath River dam removal demolition moving forward...

KZYX News ·

2020/11/23

A long contested plan to remove four hydro-electric dams on the Klamath River is moving forward, creating a path for restoring the river's decimated salmon fisheries and cleaning up a waterway that has long been central to local Native American tribes. The process of physically removing the four dams, which are owned by energy company PacifiCorp, is set to begin in three years. The agreement was announced at a Zoom meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

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Willits earthquakes: what do they mean?

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2020/11/23

November 23, 2020 — Between August 19 and August 23, as the August Complex fire was working towards becoming the state’s largest wildfire, almost fifty earthquakes were measured eleven miles east southeast of Willits. The first one was a magnitude 4.2, and most of the aftershocks were tiny, with just four of them above a magnitude 3. Cynthia Pridmore is a senior engineering geologist at the California Geological Survey. She says Willits, like most of California, is really close to an

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Election update, Measure B

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2020/11/19

November 19, 2020 — Current local election results have not been completely tallied yet, but a new batch of ballots has been freshly counted, bringing the percentage of counted votes up to just over 68%. Maureen Mulheren and Glenn McGourty’s leads in the supervisorial races have grown over their opponents, Mari Rodin and Jon Kennedy, but in the Ukiah City Council race, Steve Scalmanini and Josefina Duenas have switched places. Duenas is now the second-highest vote getter, with 17.90%, while

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On-the-job covid testing

KZYX News ·

2020/11/18

November 18, 2020 — Surveillance testing programs in Mendocino County have come and gone, as the global pandemic has lasted much longer than anyone expected. The contract with UCSF to process tests from the clinics expired on the fifteenth of this month, and yesterday, Public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren reported that the state had approved the county’s application for a mobile Optum Serv site, in addition to the site at the fairgrounds in Ukiah. Wineries have been testing employees

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County in the purple tier for the foreseeable future

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2020/11/18

November 17, 2020 — With most of California back in the purple tier, public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren has updated the county’s health order to limit outdoor gatherings to 12 people instead of 20 from three different households. He told the board of supervisors today that he does not expect the county to get out of the purple tier for the next six to eight weeks. On the consent calendar, the board approved $158,700 for a six-month Promotores de Salud program with Nuestra Alianza to train

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