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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

Coast Hospital President gives update

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2022/03/22

Judy Leach, President of the Adventist Health Hospital in Fort Bragg, explains ongoing improvements to the patient record system and why it matters; discusses staffing concerns and the impact the pandemic has had on the transition from a public to private hospital.

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Full interview with Judy Leach, Coast Hospital President

KZYX News ·

2022/03/22

Judy Leach, President of the Adventist Health Hospital in Fort Bragg, explains ongoing improvements to the patient record system and why it matters; discusses staffing concerns and the impact the pandemic has had on the transition from a public to private hospital. Additional subjects in the full-length interview include insurance access for the coastal area, and entry level job openings as well as Judy’s thoughts on Sherwood Oaks, Fort Bragg's only nursing home.

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BoS discusses water hauling, new plan to lease hybrid...

KZYX News ·

2022/03/21

March 21, 2022 — Today is the first day on the job for interim CEO Darcie Antle, whose one-year contract for salary and benefits totaling $338,000 was approved unanimously at last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Former CEO Carmel Angelo’s last day on the job was Friday. The board also discussed crafting an ordinance or revitalizing existing rules to regulate water hauling in a way that would ideally curtail diverting water to illegal pot grows while not preventing access to drinking

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6:29

Sherwood Oaks under new ownership

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2022/03/18

March 17, 2022 — As of last week, Sherwood Oaks, the only nursing home on the coast, is under new ownership. The buyers, Lucy Xie and Ronald Baldwin, are also the owners of two licensed nursing homes in Hayward, Serenethos Care Center and Saint Anthony Care Center. Although Sherwood Oaks has a license for almost 80 beds, over the past year, the pandemic, a million and a half dollars’ worth of deferred building maintenance, and a national shortage of nurses caught up to it. The facility now

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County faces potential deficit of $12 million

KZYX News ·

2022/03/16

March 16, 2022 — The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously yesterday to open the chambers to the public on April 19. Remote attendance will continue to be an option, and masking and social distancing will be implemented. Public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren pointed out that Mendocino County is now a low-transmission community, with mask mandates lifted at schools and hospital beds now widely available. But Interim CEO Darcie Antle opened her quarterly budget report with covid at the top

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6:28

Supervisors bid farewell to CEO, discuss mental...

KZYX News ·

2022/03/15

March 15, 2022 — Outgoing CEO Carmel Angelo received accolades from colleagues at the county, state, and congressional levels, as well as some criticism from local gadflies, at her send-off in this morning’s Board of Supervisors meeting. And an agreement with Redwood Community Services to operate the Critical Residential Treatment mental healthcare facility in Ukiah passed narrowly, with Supervisors Glenn McGourty and John Haschak dissenting.

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6:22

Restorative youth court offers options

KZYX News ·

2022/03/15

Ukiah High School Sophomore Cat Karpov Kinrad and twenty other teens participate in the Restorative Justice Youth Council, a newly implemented program sponsored, in partnership, by Mendocino’s Juvenile Probation Office and the Arbor of Redwood Community Services. The Restorative Justice Youth Council is a youth driven program designed to repair the harm caused to all individuals in juvenile crime by encouraging open communication between justice-involved youths and victims, and holding

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6:30

Whale festival underway

KZYX News ·

2022/03/15

The 2022 Whale Festival March 12 – April 3, sponsored by the Noyo Center for Marine Science, has a mixture of events that will please families, the science minded and those looking for a little adventure this Spring. Sue Coulter talks about the upcoming activities and gives us some insight into their expansion plans at Noyo Harbor.

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6:22

Beloved arts teacher memorialized

KZYX News ·

2022/03/15

A life well lived was enjoyed by Ukiah’s accomplished artist Adele Pruitt, who died late last month at the age of 99. An accomplished painter, art teacher, conservator, restorer, and educational reformer, Pruitt was a respected member of the Mendocino art community whose impressive breadth of work and accomplishments merit recognition. Jayed Scotti, Pruitt’s longtime student and co-worker, remarks on the qualities that made Pruitt a remarkable individual.

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6:29

Noyo Harbor has a new Harbormaster

KZYX News ·

2022/03/15

March 8, 2022—Anna Neumann is well known along the coast for her many leadership roles in the fishing industry. She has taken on a new role as harbormaster at the Noyo Harbor. In this interview she explains the role and challenges of being a harbormaster, how the harbor is funded and her plans for the future.

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Board President Tom Dow talks about the KZYX building...

KZYX News ·

2022/03/08

Mendocino County Public Broadcasting Board President Tom Dow talks with General Manager Marty Durlin about how the station made the decision to purchase a new home, and how how the property at 390 West Clay Street was chosen and financed. This is the first in a series of KZYX Building Reports.

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6:28

Mask mandate downgraded to strong recommendation

KZYX News ·

2022/03/07

March 7, 2022 — The county indoor mask mandate is now a strong recommendation, though the most recent health order consists largely of reasons residents should follow Public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren’s advice to continue masking in indoor spaces. Businesses are still authorized to request that patrons mask up, and Coren expressed confidence in the community’s judgment after years of education about maintaining the health of the people around them. People do appear to have taken more

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6:29

Supervisors hold special cannabis meeting

KZYX News ·

2022/03/04

March 3, 2022 — The Board of Supervisors took up a full slate of cannabis issues at its March 2 special meeting, including fallowing, the tax code, an appeals process for application denials, and the proper uses of a seventeen and a half million dollar state grant, which is supposed to help local growers secure annual state licenses. Supervisors directed County Counsel and cannabis program staff to look into what it would take for growers to take a leave of absence from cultivating, without

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Board discusses opening chambers

KZYX News ·

2022/03/04

March 2, 2022 — With local mask mandates set to expire by March fifteenth, the Board of Supervisors is preparing to hear an agenda item about opening meetings to the public. And the board took the first step in diversifying its retirement investments, by agreeing to work up a resolution to start investing some of the county’s five million dollar pension fund with Public Agency Retirement Services, a multiple employer trust that supervisors believe will give them more flexibility than the

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Tribal leader, CalFire lead tours of JDSF

KZYX News ·

2022/03/04

March1, 2022 — Caspar 500, a timber harvest plan in Jackson Demonstration State Forest, has been the site of a lot of activity that’s neither logging nor protests in the last few days. KZYX Program Director Alicia Bales and reporter Sarah Reith review the events.

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Health officer optimistic

KZYX News ·

2022/03/04

February 28, 2022 — Public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren delivered an optimistic covid briefing on Friday afternoon, saying that, in spite of a new variant that’s edging its way into the state, he expects to see a significant drop in hospital admissions by the end of March. He may reconsider the county’s universal indoor mask mandate in the next week or so, and he has high hopes for the community health worker model in educating the public as the disease moves towards being an everyday

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Committee calls for more communication

KZYX News ·

2022/03/04

February 25, 2022 — Members of Ukiah’s Diversity and Equity Committee learned about state and federal programs to pay down utility bills for customers whose accounts fell into arrears during the pandemic. They also heard about existing practices to communicate with people who don’t speak English, and made suggestions for improving communications in general. Committee members also examined a posting for a job advertised by the city, and mulled over ways to make it more inviting to racial

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6:26

Tree death multi-faceted

KZYX News ·

2022/03/04

February 24, 2022 — Trees along the Mendocino and Sonoma coastline have been falling victim to a rogues’ gallery of foes in the last twenty years, according to Chris Lee, a forest pest specialist with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Lee spoke to the Mendocino Coast Audubon Society earlier this week about the many factors that have been decimating the coastal trees, including pests, drought, climate change, and land management practices. Bishop and Monterey pines

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Cannabis program meets with stakeholders

KZYX News ·

2022/03/04

Feb 23, 2022 — The Mendocino County Cannabis Program is holding public meetings separate from the Board of Supervisors, where participants can explore the often-confusing minutiae of ever-changing cannabis policy in a venue of their own. February 18 was the first Friday morning meeting, where applicants discussed fallowing permits, or what it means to take a break from cultivating without walking away from the program altogether. Much of the discussion revolved around taxes, since

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6:30

Lethal owl study seeks to determine impacts

KZYX News ·

2022/03/04

February 18, 2022 — As conditions in the ecosystem change, environmentalists and land managers grapple with increasingly difficult questions about what it means to be stewards of the forest and its inhabitants. A team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is engaged in a study involving the lethal removal of barred owls, which have been out-competing the iconic and endangered northern spotted owls. Barred owls originated in the eastern United States, and they’re larger

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