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Ukiah Vice Mayor Josefina Duenas opened Wednesday's city council meeting where the The city of Ukiah recognized the contributions of Latinos and Latino culture, issuing the proclamation of September as the Hispanic heritage month.   City council member Juan Orozco read the proclamation acknowledging the contribution in different sectors from people whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Cari...

Over the last few years of drought, the village of Mendocino has struggled to keep the water flowing to taps.  Dry wells, water imports from adjacent communities and even emergency hauling from as far away as Ukiah has kept this town afloat.  The State of California’s Division of Drinking Water and the SAFER program are assessing the situation. Recently appointed MCCSD board member Donna Feiner an...

Ukiah High School’s burgeoning Women’s Empowerment Club, founded in 2021 and over 30 members strong, continues to hold weekly meetings to address systems of oppression that prevent women’s rights to thrive as realities on their campus and in society. Members of The Women’s Empowerment Club research feminist topics to create informative presentations, which are then shared at the weekly meetings. C...

El mes de septiembre y octubre se celebra el mes de la herencia hispana en los estados unidos, un mes de eventos dedicados a reconocer los aportes de la cultura latina en los diferentes sectores de nuestra sociedad. También es un momento en donde organizaciones culturales buscan mostrar el trabajo de las comunidades inmigrantes. Este es el caso de Ukiah center for the arts, una organización de art...

The first Friday of the month, galleries and art spaces in Mendocino county open their doors to the public for an evening of new exhibitions. KCYZ talked with the organizers of three events happening around the area. Grace Hudson museum presents the exhibit. Gathering Time: Pomo Artists in a Time of Pandemic The Ukiah Center for the Arts exhibition for the month of September is a Salon style exhib...

August 29, 2022--Over 100 Forest Activists gathered in Caspar on the Mendocino Coast on Sunday, August 28, at a Youth Led Rally to protect Jackson Demonstration State Forest. The rally, called by youth climate activists, took on heightened significance after CalFire announced this week they would resume logging on four controversial Timber Harvest Plans that were shut down last year due to protest...

As part of The Clean California Act, over 4000 cubic yards of waste were removed from Covelo free of charge. Caltrans partnered with Solid Waste of Willits and community members with the Round Valley Municipal Advisory Committee to offer a free week of services at the Covelo transfer station.

The women’s healthcare access debate is top of mind throughout the country, since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. But access to care was not equal even before that landmark decision.  On the Mendocino coast, women can face physical and economic stress regardless of their age and choices about having a family.  We talked to Lucresha Renteria, the executive director of the Mendocino Coast C...

Ukiah Vecinos en Acción held their community meeting with conversations about equity and community issues.

In 2002, a group of students of English as a second language and their teacher in Willits got together to solve the need for services and referrals for immigrants, forming what today is the nonprofit Nuestra Alianza.  Nuestra Alianza works on a train the trainer program, creating a sense of family in their work.  Sergio Perez, started as a student in the summer class 18 years ago, then serve as a...

August 22, 2022 — The Board of Supervisors last week discussed a media exemption to a new ordinance that charges hefty fees for public records. On June 21, the Board passed the ordinance, after hearing from County Counsel Christian Curtis that some people requesting public records were doing so in order to conduct market research or to take up county government time. He said then that the county r...

August 18 — Union members packed into the Board of Supervisors chambers at last week’s meeting, scoffing at claims of a financial crisis and calling for an increase in pay. “We’ve been hearing that the county can’t afford a cost of living increase because there’s a financial crisis,” said Patrick Hickey, the field representative for SEIU Local 1021, which represents most of the county’s unionized...

August 17 — A consent calendar item on the agenda for this week’s Board of Supervisors meeting revived concerns about mismanagement and delays at the equity cannabis grant program, which was the topic of a recent Grand Jury report. And cannabis issues will now be directed to the General Government committee, a standing committee that meets every other month under Brown Act requirements and will br...

August 16: The Drought Task Force Committee met Monday morning to hammer out more details about how to form a water agency, now being called a water resource team. But questions about where the entity is going, and what it will ultimately do, remain. The formalization of the task force, which is now a Board of Supervisors standing committee currently meeting under the rubric of the Public Health,...

Primer episodio de una serie de conversaciones con el Concejal de la ciudad de Ukiah Juan Orozco explicando cómo se maneja la ciudad, cuál es el trabajo de los concejales y las responsabilidades cívicas de las personas.

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August 11, 2022 — The Fort Bragg City Council had second thoughts this week about its own plans for a sales tax that would have been used to fund workforce housing. The proposal for a ⅜ cent sales tax would have been a general tax, needing only a simple majority to pass and going into the city’s general fund. An oversight committee was going to make sure the estimated $650,000 to $800,000 a year w...

August 10, 2022 — The new fiscal year is off to a rocky start, with miscommunication about the health plan deficit, uncertainty about federal disaster reimbursements, and the county’s main labor union filing a complaint with the state in the midst of contract negotiations. Last week, the Board of Supervisors agreed to ask the state controller for help with its books after Supervisor Ted Williams d...

August 9, 2022 — The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors is facing fierce criticism after its unanimous decision last week to send a letter to the state controller, asking for help with the county’s books. “I think we have a financial crisis here, and we just don’t know how bad it is,” said Supervisor Ted Williams, during a discussion about projected cost overruns at the project to build a new j...

August 8, 2022 — The Board of Supervisors agreed in a narrow vote last week to approve the idea of a water agency. During budgeting in June, the board agreed to allocate $250,000 from the PG&E settlement to form the agency. And, to comply with a new law, SB 552, which requires drought planning, the board agreed unanimously to formalize the drought task force into a standing committee, consisti...

August 4, 2022 — Abortion remains legal in California, but there have been barriers to access since well before the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade. In Mendocino county, where poverty is high and roads are long, religious hospitals and federally funded clinics dominate the healthcare landscape. But the pandemic has legitimized telehealth, and the use of abortion pills is on the rise. Organiz...

Entrevista con Adrian Mata, organizador del mercado de empresarios jovenes La Familia

KZYX Newscast for August 5. Sarah Right report on the Potter Valley Hydropower plant, followed by a bilingual interview with La Familia, a group of young Latino entrepreneurs and Stacey Sheldon with the Ukiah Observatory Park.

Following the Supreme Court’s overturning of the reproductive rights bill Roe v. Wade, members of Mendocino Country are now speaking up about the injustice. RoeRage Ukiah is a small orginazation that was born out from the reproductive rallies following the overturning of Roe on June 24th, 2022. Ellen Weed, a Ukiah local, had been gathering stories about women who had abortions or suffered from a l...