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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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County fees to go up in the new year for cost recovery

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2021/12/22

Dec 22, 2021 — Fees for many county services are due to go up in mid-January, leading to sticker shock after years of unchanging prices. Last week, department heads made their various cases to the Board of Supervisors as to how bringing up the cost of fees is the only way to achieve cost recovery, or in some cases, retain staff. Environmental health, the sector of public health that covers everything from land use to body art to Boy Scouts facilities, told the board that many of its fees

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County offers boosters at fairgrounds clinic

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2021/12/21

December 21, 2021 – Wondering what to get yourself or that special someone for the holidays? How about the free gift of a COVID 19 vaccination or booster shot? As Mendocino County experiences new, more transmissible COVID 19 variants, it is more important than ever to protect yourself and your community by getting vaccinated and boosted to fully fortify your immune system to stave off severe symptoms of COVID 19. Mendocino Public Health will offer a holiday vaccination clinic at the

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Crisis Residential Treatment center opens in Ukiah

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2021/12/21

December 20, 2021 – Sometimes the government does work to better serve its people, and when this happens, it is cause for celebration.Therefore, a celebration was held on the afternoon of December 16th when government officials and community members joined together to commemorate the grand opening of the new Crisis Residential Treatment Facility of Mendocino County. Members from the Measure B committee, Behavioral Health, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Mendocino’s Board of

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Diversion without dams: CDFW study suggests...

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2021/12/21

December 17, 2021 — The Potter Valley Project is in a phase of uncertainty, but a recent feasibility study could be a blueprint for a future that includes a diversion without dams. The deadline for the license application is coming up in mid-April, and PG&E, which owns the project, has made it clear that it does not intend to renew. The coalition seeking to take over the license hasn’t come up with the money it needs to fund the necessary studies. And PG&E is not paying for a

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BoS approves jail medical contract, with condition...

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2021/12/17

December 16, 2021 — The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors approved the contract, including a $3 million increase, with the medical provider for inmates at the county jail this week, with the proviso that the contract be amended to include a mental health clinician. Dr Jenine Miller, the head of the county’s Behavioral Health Department, agreed to work with NaphCare, the provider, on those amendments, and report back to the board in 60 days. Supervisor Ted Williams asked Miller for her

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Activist files hit-and-run report in JDSF

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2021/12/17

December 15, 2021 — About a dozen activists from a coalition that’s been pushing for a moratorium on logging in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest held an impromptu meeting with Assembly member Wood and Senator Mike McGuire’s field staff in downtown Ukiah Tuesday, asking them to convey their concerns to elected officials. Among them were Polly Girvin, an authorized representative of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians for government to government consultations with the state; and an

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Fort Bragg nursing home in crisis

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2021/12/14

December 14, 2021 — Sherwood Oaks, the nursing home in Fort Bragg, is in a serious crisis, according to a report by Dr. William Miller, the Medical Director and Chief of Medical Staff at Adventist Health Mendocino Coast. At last night’s meeting of the Mendocino Coast Healthcare District, he told the board that the property, but not the nursing home itself, is in escrow, and the nursing home is desperately short-staffed. Miller said if the California Department of Public Health does not

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“They don’t think about who we go home to” ...

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2021/12/14

December 13, 2021 -- What began as an act of civil disobedience in front of a store turned unlawful on Saturday, December 11, when 15 maskless protestors and their children boldly entered The Ukiah Natural Foods Co-op in Ukiah, California, to demonstrate their fury over the need to wear a mask and follow COVID protocol to shop inside the store. Apparently unsatisfied with the Co-op’s online shopping and curbside pick-up option for those who cannot or will not wear a mask, the maskless

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Rail Trail to expand in the new year

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2021/12/10

December 10, 2021 — Trails and railroads have been top of mind lately. Last month, the Skunk Train made a controversial move to purchase the Georgia Pacific mill site in Fort Bragg. And the master planning process for the Great Redwood Trail is poised to get going in the new year — under the shadow of the Coal Train, which could stall progress on the trail’s federal application indefinitely. In the meantime, some cities along the former railroad are quietly building segments of trail

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Schools host vaccine clinics for kids

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2021/12/10

December 9, 2021 — The Ukiah Unified School District has partnered with Mendocino County Public Health to host COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics at local elementary schools in November and December for children ages 5-11. The final clinic for this round of first shots took place Thursday, November 9th, at Grace Hudson Elementary school from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

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A Community Activist Gives Insight Into the Sale of...

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2021/12/10

December 8, 2021 -- We revisit the controversial sale of the Georgia Pacific mill site in Fort Bragg to the Skunk Train and its parent company the Mendocino Railway with George Reinhardt, an associate at the non-profit, The Noyo Headlands Unified Design group or NHUDG. NHUDG has been advocating for the mill site clean-up and environmentally friendly reuse plans for over a decade.

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One step closer to tribal co-management at JDSF

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2021/12/08

December 6, 2021 — A local tribe learned last week that CalFire has decided to review its management plan of Jackson Demonstration State Forest, with an eye toward tribal co-management with the Sherwood Valley and Coyote Valley Bands of Pomo Indians. Polly Girvin, a longtime advocate for Coyote Valley, says the tribe is ready to get specific. “We have a plan in hand, at our fingertips,” she said. “A habitat management plan, crafted with the Save the Redwoods (League). We are going to be

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Skunk Train President Responds to Community Concerns...

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2021/12/04

Skunk Train president Robert Pinoli answers questions about their acquisition and plans for the Georgia Pacific Mill Site in Fort Bragg and the City’s lawsuit, short broadcast version.

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Extended version: Skunk Train President Responds to...

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2021/12/04

In this segment Skunk Train president Robert Pinoli answers questions about their acquisition and plans for the Georgia Pacific Mill Site in Fort Bragg and the City’s lawsuit.

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Tax protest one of many efforts to address...

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2021/12/03

December 2, 21021 — Tax revolts have a storied place in American history, going back to the Boston Tea Party, when the Sons of Liberty set off a revolution by destroying an entire shipment of British tea to protest taxation without representation. More recently, Flow Cannabis Company co-founders Michael Steinmetz and Flavia Cassani invited California cannabis businesses to join them in withholding cultivation taxes until they see real, actionable change, presumably in California’s cannabis

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Great Redwood Trail master planning process gearing up

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2021/12/02

December 1, 2021 — Senator Mike McGuire’s dream of a 320-mile Great Redwood Trail from the San Francisco Bay to the Humboldt Bay is a few million dollars closer than ever to becoming a reality. At a town hall on Tuesday night, he exulted over the funds he plans to tap to bring the project to fruition. “We now have funding to be able to move the Great Redwood Trail forward,” he told listeners, elaborating that this year’s budget act included several items significant to the trail. One, he

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Lone Pine Ranch preserved

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2021/11/30

November 30, 2021 — The Wildlands Conservancy, a conservation group that buys large tracts of land for preservation all over the state, announced earlier this month that it had succeeded in purchasing close to 27,000 acres along what it calls the Grand Canyon of the Eel River: the $25 million Lone Pine Ranch, which Dean Witter’s family bought in the1940s. Lauren Schmitt, of our sister station KMUD, interviewed Frasier Haney, the Executive Director of The Wildlands Conservancy, about plans

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Partnership possible to resolve wildlife conflict at...

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2021/11/30

November 29, 2021 — In the two weeks since a mountain lion killed two goats at the high school farm in Boonville, the remaining goats have been listening to a.m. radio all night long, and scarecrows have been giving off offensive odors to deter further losses. But the long-term solution is a high fence, ideally twelve feet tall, with a five-foot visual barrier around the bottom so predators looking for an easy meal won’t be as easily tempted. Project Coyote, an organization dedicated to

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City of Ukiah Censors Youth Project Mural in Todd...

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2021/11/30

by Stacey Sheldon November 25, 2021--The City of Ukiah recently censored the message, “No Human is Illegal on Stolen Land” on the new mural in Todd Grove Park. The mural is the creation of the Ukiah Valley Youth Leadership Coalition, a teen program of the Arbor Center at Redwood Community Services. The teens, with the help of lead artist Josue Rojas, designed a large-scale mural on the theme of immigration, and painted it on the exterior walls of the park’s restroom. When Rojas and the

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Bridge Installation Delayed by Winter Restrictions in...

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2021/11/27

by Alicia Bales November 23, 2021--Jackson Demonstration State Forest is roughly 50,000 acres of public land in the heart of Mendocino County, managed by CalFire. Although these state-owned woods are enjoyed by hikers, mountain bikers, equestrians and foragers, JDSF is not a park. It was once industrial timber land, and continues to be logged by CalFire. A coalition of groups, including the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians and the Mendocino Trail Stewards, have called for a different

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