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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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School reopening on hold as county returns to purple...

KZYX News ·

2020/11/17

November 16, 2020 — Last week, when the county was still in the red tier, school boards met to discuss plans to reopen schools for in-person instruction. We caught up with Michelle Hutchins, the Superintendent of the Mendocino County Office of Education, about an hour after the governor’s address on Monday afternoon.

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Back to school blues

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2020/11/16

November 16, 2020 — Coronavirus infections are rising again in Mendocino County, but for the moment, schools are still eligible to reopen for in-person instruction. The Ukiah Unified School District board met Thursday night to discuss the plan. The board voted last July to authorize Superintendent Deb Kubin to decide which option to implement. If the county is still in the red tier on December 1, the plan is to bring transitional kindergarten and first grade back to school on December

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Government Agency discusses how to manage future of...

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2020/11/14

Yesterday, the Ukiah Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency had their second public meeting, where they discussed how their mammoth project of sustainably managing the groundwater in the Ukiah Valley Basin is coming along. The Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) is in charge of creating a plan to regulate all groundwater (well water) in the Ukiah Valley Basin for decades to come. Basically, the GSA will decide how much water gets pumped and how much water stays in the ground in

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Schools, Veterans Day, and Homeless Housing

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2020/11/12

November 12, 2020 — The county has been in the red tier, for substantial rather than widespread presence of covid-19 for just over two weeks. The percentage of positive test cases, over a seven-day average with a seven-day lag, is low enough to qualify the county for the orange tier, but the numbers, at an average of 6.57 per day, just barely come in below the average of seven per day that qualifies us for the red. An additional death was also reported earlier this week, bringing the

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Courthouse closed, two weeks of the red tier, smoke...

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2020/11/10

November 10, 2020 — Not quite half the ballots from the recent election have been counted, assuming all of Mendocino County’s 53,651 voters participated. Both courthouses in Ukiah and Fort Bragg will be closed all week, due to two unrelated covid exposures last week. And if you see smoke in Anderson Valley tomorrow, chances are it’s the Anderson Valley Fire Department conducting a training burn at Gowan’s Orchard in Philo, starting at 8am. The site is ten acres of fallow field bordered by

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Willits Unified School District passes measure to...

KZYX News ·

2020/11/10

10/9/2020 -- For years, the Willits Unified School District has struggled to keep their aging facilities in good repair. There are eight school buildings in the district. The newest one is from the late ‘80s, and the oldest from almost a century ago. At Willits High School, the parking lot is badly in need of an upgrade, and at Blosser Elementary, the roof is leaking. Despite the urgency of these issues, superintendent Mark Westerburg couldn’t do much about it, because there was no money to

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After the vote: Mendo people tell us how they feel

KZYX News ·

2020/11/06

People in Mendocino Village are notoriously left of center politically. On November 4th, they shared their feelings of disappointment and frustration, optimism and hope.

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Early election results coming in

KZYX News ·

2020/11/04

November 4, 2020 — The entire country kept a long-awaited appointment with its democratic destiny yesterday. In Mendocino County, not quite half the ballots from 53,651 registered voters were counted by midnight. A huge amount of confusion resulted from the all mail-in procedure, with the majority of election-day voters casting provisional ballots because they lost track of the ballots they received in the mail last month.

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Red tier means some loosening of restrictions

KZYX News ·

2020/11/02

November 2, 2020 — Since the county entered the red tier on Tuesday, a few restrictions have been loosened. On Friday, Public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren addressed what will be allowed in the new tier, how to celebrate the holidays safely, and talked about plans to improve testing capacity, especially now that UCSF has canceled its lab contract with the county.

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Measure B Committee goes over strategic plan

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2020/11/02

October 29, 2020 — The Measure B committee reviewed the first draft of its strategic plan, went over some financial information, and discussed the training center in Redwood Valley at Wednesday’s meeting . Some commissioners were surprised that Measure B is now paying for services that have not appeared on previous budgets, but Commissioner Carmel Angelo said this is the beginning of the commission paying its own way. The decision about who will run the psychiatric health facility, or puff,

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City of Ukiah brings goats to town to eradicate...

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2020/10/30

The city of Ukiah’s newest employees have floppy ears, hooves, and will eat almost anything you put in front of them, which makes them the perfect fit for their job: eating the invasive species and flammable material on the Ukiah section of the Great Redwood Trail.Most years, the City of Ukiah hires contracts inmate crews from Chamberlain Creek Camp, a prison in Mendocino, to remove excess brush from the abandoned Ukiah train tracks and a few other city properties. But due to both COVID and

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Measure B Committee goes over strategic plan

KZYX News ·

2020/10/29

October 29, 2020 — The Measure B committee reviewed the first draft of its strategic plan, went over some financial information, and discussed the training center in Redwood Valley at Wednesday’s meeting . Some commissioners were surprised that Measure B is now paying for services that have not appeared on previous budgets, but Commissioner Carmel Angelo said this is the beginning of the commission paying its own way. The decision about who will run the psychiatric health facility, or puff,

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Reaching out to lonely friends and family during the...

KZYX News ·

2020/10/28

October 28, 2020 — As the summer of the pandemic fades into fall, the loneliness is getting acute, especially for kids and elderly people. Online platforms and handwritten cards have to take the place of in-person gatherings, especially since the two age groups tend to respond so differently to the virus. Meyo Marrufo, the environmental director for Guidiville Rancheria, has been heavily involved in the online curriculum at the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center in Santa Rosa,

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UCSF cancels surveillance testing contract

KZYX News ·

2020/10/27

October 27, 2020 — For most of the pandemic, the county has been able to send hundreds of surveillance tests every week to a lab at UCSF, free of charge. The community health clinics in Fort Bragg, the south coast, Anderson Valley and Long Valley have offered these tests for months to people who can’t get to the OptumServ site in Ukiah. The contract with UCSF was supposed to last until the end of the calendar year. But just last week, UCSF terminated that contract, based on unspecified

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Getting the word out about covid-19

KZYX News ·

2020/10/26

October 26, 2020 — As the US, along with much of the Western world sees surges in covid-19 numbers, local organizations like the chambers of commerce and non-profits are working to distribute masks and information about the virus. Lucy Kramer is a community wellness coordinator and the program manager for the mask awareness program at North Coast Opportunities, which has made more than a dozen mini-grants to organizations and individuals with ideas about how to spread the word. NCO

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Environmental group finds Eel River decimated by drought

KZYX News ·

2020/10/24

In this episode, you will hear from Patrick Higgins, managing director of the Eel River Recovery Project, and Andrew Ryple, a UC Davis scientist who specializes in cold water fish ecology. Ryple says that considering climate change, the poor river conditions Higgins witnessed are not surprising.

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Cell tower and hemp pilot program both moving ahead

KZYX News ·

2020/10/22

October 22, 2020 — The Board of Supervisors unanimously denied an appeal to block a cell phone tower on Pine Mountain about five miles from the Willits city center on Tuesday. And the second reading of an ordinance regulating a pilot program for growing industrial hemp passed along the same lines as the first reading, though it still meets with opposition from cannabis farmers.

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BoS approves purchase of Ukiah motel for homeless...

KZYX News ·

2020/10/21

October 21, 2020 — The Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed to purchase a Best Western Motel on South Orchard Avenue in Ukiah yesterday, after Senator Mike McGuire assured the board that the state has expanded program funding to support Project Homekey, a statewide program to purchase motels for homeless housing. And Public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren said he’s cautiously optimistic about the county’s prospects of slipping into a less restrictive tier, which would allow schools to open

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Rodin campaign continues

KZYX News ·

2020/10/20

October 19, 2020 — The second district supervisorial race took an unexpected turn earlier this month, when Mari Rodin canceled a candidate’s forum for health reasons. In an interview earlier today, Rodin disclosed that she was having an exploratory surgery in San Francisco that day, and that she found out the next day, October 6, that she has cancer. Rodin says her campaign for supervisor is still active, and according to Katrina Bartolomie, the county registrar of voters, as of this

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Black Lives Matter members get out the vote

KZYX News ·

2020/10/19

October 19, 2020 — On Saturday afternoon, seventeen days before the election, about fifty people gathered in Alex Thomas Plaza in Ukiah to rally in memory of Breonna Taylor, to encourage people to vote, and to put out the word that the public safety board is still looking for representatives.

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