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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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Ukiah police chief fired

KZYX News ·

2022/06/18

June 17, 2022 — Noble Waidelich has been fired from his position as Ukiah Police Chief, effective Friday. He was placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday, after city management learned that he was the subject of a criminal investigation into an allegation of an assault on a woman. The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the charge. The press release from Friday afternoon quotes City Manager Sage Sangiacomo saying that “Waidelich was also in violation of police department

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KZYX News Director Victor Palomino promises bilingual...

KZYX News ·

2022/06/18

June 17, 2022 – Victor Palomino joins the KZYX News team as its first fully bilingual News Director. He will collaborate with Program Director Alicia Bales and news anchor Sarah Reith to develop a daily news program in English and Spanish. The goal of the bilingual news program is to serve listeners with continued news reporting on issues relevant to our rural community, and to expand news coverage to engage Mendocino County’s growing Spanish-speaking and immigrant communities.

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6:30

Ukiah enters water sharing agreement, passes climate...

KZYX News ·

2022/06/18

June 16, 2022 — The Ukiah City Council took two actions in response to drought and climate change at its Wednesday night meeting, when they unanimously approved a climate emergency resolution and agreed to participate in a voluntary water sharing agreement with other water users on the Russian River. The city has a sturdy groundwater basin and holds durable senior pre-1914 water rights to flows in the East Branch of the river, which is also the destination for water that’s diverted

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6:29

Ukiah police chief being investigated for assault...

KZYX News ·

2022/06/17

June 15, 2022 — Ukiah Police Chief Noble Waidelich is on paid administrative leave, pending the results of a criminal investigation into an alleged assault on a woman. Waidelich is facing a jury trial in September over accusations of domestic violence and financial abuse by his ex-girlfriend, Amanda Carley. Carley’s adult daughter Madisyn is also suing Waidelich for damages over what she says is harm she suffered by witnessing her mother’s abuse when she was a teenager. The Carleys are not

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6:29

Waste hauler asks household recyclers to consider...

KZYX News ·

2022/06/17

June 15, 2022 — With the passage of SB 1383, Californians will be required to reduce organic waste in the landfill by 75% in the next three years. In a few weeks, a new large-scale compost facility will be available to most of Mendocino County, and buy-back recycling will re-open in Fort Bragg and Ukiah. Most of the county’s non-recyclable, non- compostable trash goes to a landfill in Fairfield. The county and cities have composting contracts with Cold Creek Compost in Potter Valley, which

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6:29

Board closes budget hearings

KZYX News ·

2022/06/17

June 14, 2022 — The Board of Supervisors has closed its budget hearings and will formally ratify the final county budget on June 21. The total county budget is over $355.8 million, with an operating budget of over $29.6 million per month, according to documents attached to the June 7 agenda. Talk of closing the county museum was notably absent from the list of recommendations. Several organizations asked the board to consider funding them from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), including

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6:29

Amanda Carley to get a jury trial

KZYX News ·

2022/06/15

June 13, 2022 — Five years after filing a lawsuit against Mendocino County and her ex-boyfriend, Amanda Carley will have a chance to make her case in court. Carley is suing the county, the probation department, her boss at the time, and Noble Waidelich, who is now the chief of the Ukiah Police Department. At a hearing on Friday morning, Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Jeanine Nadel granted Carley’s request for a jury trial, scheduled to begin on September 26 of this year. The

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6:28

Water, fire and libraries to ask for sales tax in...

KZYX News ·

2022/06/10

June 10, 2022 — By 7:00 on Wednesday night, the Board of Supervisors had agreed 4-1 to put a tax on the November ballot to fund county-wide fire and water needs. The amount of the tax has not been decided yet, but the split will be 60% for fire and 40% for water. However, it would be a general tax, which typically goes straight into the general fund for no specified purpose and only requires a simple majority to pass. A special tax requires a two-thirds majority. County Counsel Christian

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6:28

"The county hasn't done their homework:" union not...

KZYX News ·

2022/06/10

June 9, 2022 — Union members rallied outside the Board of Supervisors chambers during the second day of budget hearings Wednesday. The county is in negotiations with all its bargaining units, and the largest, SEIU Local 1021, says that on Monday, the county offered them a zero percent cost of living allowance increase, or COLA. Negotiator Jackie Otis, a social worker in adult and aging services, let supporters know that they were up against a bad precedent, when county workers took a 12%

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6:27

Preliminary results on election day show a few surprises

KZYX News ·

2022/06/09

June 8, 2022 — The last voter of the night cast her ballot with ten seconds to spare. She was heavily pregnant with a baby on her hip and a firm grasp on another child’s hand as they approached the dropbox in the parking lot outside the county administrative building. She spent the journey back to the car explaining the fundamentals of democracy. Preliminary voting results, with no precincts reporting yet, showed no surprises at the state level. The incumbents were defeating their

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6:29

Board funds water agency

KZYX News ·

2022/06/09

June 7, 2022 — In the first round of budget hearings on Tuesday morning, the Board of Supervisors agreed to use $250,000 from the PG&E settlement money for a water agency, though the structure and duties of the agency have yet to be defined. And the board asked staff to revise plans for enhanced code enforcement, even as code enforcement manager John Birx reported that in the last year, his staff has more than doubled the number of cases closed, with compliance. The board set aside

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6:29

Palliative Care celebrates new location

KZYX News ·

2022/06/09

June 7, 2022 — The Madrone Care Network celebrated its move from a cramped little shop behind an audio store to a 1700 square foot office building on Monday. The network started offering palliative care to patients in Mendocino County just a few months before the start of the pandemic. Physician’s assistant and founder Lynn Meadows, who was a well known longtime midwife in the community, said now, at 71, she has “evolved along this pathway of life,” to the transition for people in their

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6:28

There's no train in that coffin

KZYX News ·

2022/06/03

June 3, 2022 — Senator Mike McGuire may have taken his victory lap a little too soon at a town hall about the Great Redwood Trail on Wednesday night. “Tonight we are able to announce — and this is late breaking,” he declared; “We have finally put a nail in the coffin of Big Coal. We have beat back Big Coal and the toxic coal train.” The nail may be in the coffin, but there’s no train in it yet. McGuire was exulting about what he thought was the extinguished threat of an anonymous coal

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6:29

Public Health stretched thin

KZYX News ·

2022/06/03

June 2, 2022 — With a state budget surplus of $97 billion, a coalition of state public health departments and community advocates is weighing in on how to invest a promised $300 million to rebuild the state’s public health infrastructure, especially the workforce. The PublicHERO initiative spells out how much money the coalition wants to be allocated to which priorities in training, recruiting, and retaining people for specialized positions. In addition to organizational backing, the

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6:29

Inland water budgeting for water right, study to...

KZYX News ·

2022/06/01

June 1, 2022 — As another dry summer heats up, the Board of Supervisors is considering asking voters to approve a sales tax for local fire districts and county-wide water projects. The tax for Measure B is due to decrease this year, and the Board hopes voters will agree to replace that reduction with the new tax, which is expected to generate about $7 million per year. At a meeting in mid-May, firefighters and Russian River water users expressed their support for the tax, though details

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Requested variance would result in drastic curtailments

KZYX News ·

2022/05/31

May 31, 2022 — Russian River water users are preparing for another dry year, with water rights curtailments for those who depend on Lake Mendocino, and the possibility of just a trickle coming out of Lake Pillsbury. PG&E, which still owns and operates the Potter Valley Project under an annual license, has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to give it permission to release five cubic feet of water per second from Lake Pillsbury into the East Branch of the Russian

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6:29

Sheriff faces challenger

KZYX News ·

2022/05/27

May 27, 2022 — Sheriff Matt Kendall is facing a last-minute challenger in the coming election. Trent James is a former Mendocino County deputy and Willits police sergeant whose YouTube channel “Confessions of an Ex-Cop” focuses on claims of corruption and malfeasance in local law enforcement agencies. He was sworn in as a write-in candidate one day before the filing deadline, on Monday May 23rd.

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Full-length interview with Sheriff candidate Trent James

KZYX News ·

2022/05/27

May 27, 2022 — Sheriff Matt Kendall is facing a last-minute challenger in the coming election. Trent James is a former Mendocino County deputy and Willits police sergeant whose YouTube channel “Confessions of an Ex-Cop” focuses on claims of corruption and malfeasance in local law enforcement agencies. He was sworn in as a write-in candidate one day before the filing deadline, on Monday May 23rd.

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6:30

Rights to cold water a hot topic

KZYX News ·

2022/05/25

May 25, 2022 — The struggle over the water of the Eel River continues. With PG&E operating the Potter Valley Project on an annual license, environmental groups like Friends of the Eel River are claiming violations of the Endangered Species Act, and asking regulators to reconsider authorizing the annual license. Meanwhile, Russian River water users, whose attempt to take over the hydropower license was stymied by a lack of funds, are now strategizing how to acquire the water rights held

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6:27

County Museum has community support

KZYX News ·

2022/05/23

May 23, 2022 — Well over 120 people, representing political, business, and arts and history interests, turned out for a behind-the-scenes tour at the Mendocino County Museum on Friday night. There was even an impromptu concert, featuring flute, kazoo, harmonica and guitar by musicians Malakai Schindel and Kyle Madrigal. The event doubled as a mixer for the Willits Chamber of Commerce, and did triple duty as a show of support for the museum, which is in danger of losing its funding amidst

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