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Just before 10:00 on Wednesday night, the Ukiah City Council voted by a bare majority to table a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The Council received over thirty letters on both sides of the question. Many supporters of the ceasefire resolution stated that they are Jewish, before citing their dismay over the Israeli bombing Gaza. But opponents advised the local governing body not to weigh in on international issues by passing a non-binding resolution. One questioned why the council was delving into foreign affairs when people are hungry and homeless in Ukiah.
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Local NewsIn what one Ukiah Valley water leader calls “the next big era of major water decisions,” the City of Ukiah has joined up with Redwood Valley and the Millview water district to form a new water authority. The aim is to qualify for state infrastructure grants to create a more reliable water supply for small communities. The new authority has around 8500 to 9000 water users, with about half of them in the city of Ukiah. That’s pretty small by state standards, but First District Supervisor Glenn McGourty, who is retiring this year, thinks the water authority will help smaller districts comply with ever-increasing state requirements.
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Local NewsVoter turnout at 14% shortly after midnight on Super Tuesday.
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Local NewsToday is the last day to vote in the presidential primary election, which includes supervisors races in the first, second, and fourth districts. It also includes Measure R, renewal of the abandoned vehicle abatement program. That will result in a one dollar fee for every vehicle registered to an owner with an address in the county. There will be an additional two or maybe three dollars for certain commercial vehicles, depending on whether the impartial analysis or the text of the ballot measure is correct. Presumably, if it passes, whatever the fee is will be renewed for another ten years.
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Local NewsA firefighter was late to the fire at the Leggett post office on Friday night — because he rolled his truck on the way to fight the blaze.22-year-old Brian Lewis caught a ride from the crash site to the fire, where he helped with the mopping-up effort. He’s borrowing a friend’s vehicle until he can replace the one that was most likely totaled after he hit a patch of hail.Snow fell even at lower elevations over the weekend, and as of Sunday afternoon, Highway 101 at the top of the grade was down to one lane from the Haehl Creek bridge to Highway 20, due to snow. And snow accumulated on 175 between Hopland and LakeportThe Leggett Valley Fire Department reported that at around 5:40 pm on Friday night, lightning struck a large redwood tree just outside the post office. “The tree was shattered and fell through the building,” according to a Facebook post by the department. Half an hour later, the post office was fully engulfed. It was a total loss, but the local market was saved.The seven-member Leggett Volunteer Fire Department did have help from the neighbors. Caltrans personnel and firefighters from Piercy, Laytonville, and CalFire assisted at the scene.As for Lewis, he spent Sunday morning driving around in a borrowed truck to make sure the neighbors were okay.Friends have set up a Gofundme account to help Lewis replace his truck. It’s up to a little over half of the $10,000 goal as of Monday.
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Local NewsSeven inmates appear to have overdosed on narcotics at the Mendocino County at jail this afternoon. Sheriff Matt Kendall reported that five of them were taken to the hospital, and one of them passed away. Kendall spoke to kzyx late in the afternoon on March first.
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Local NewsThe Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on February 27 to offer a hiring bonus to entice an Ag Commissioner to head up the ag department. The county has been without an ag commissioner since 2022. This puts farmers and customers of any business that uses scales or other measuring devices at a disadvantage, because the Ag Commissioner also serves as the sealer of weights and measures.
Friday, April 5th at 7pm
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SPACE Theater, Ukiah
General admission tickets: $35
Special VIP reception at 6pm: $100
All proceeds from this event go to the KZYX Building Fund.
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State Sen. Eva Burch hopes her experiences will convince her colleagues to leave abortion access up to doctors — and Arizona voters — this fall.
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One of the founders of behavioral economics, who incorporated human quirks into the study of how people make economic decisions, has died. Daniel Kahneman was 90.
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NBC's hiring and firing of former GOP chief Ronna McDaniel may inspire more distrust from conservatives. Yet journalists said her role in trying to overturn the 2020 election made her unacceptable.
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The Port of Baltimore handles high volumes of auto imports, so while it's at a standstill, some cars and trucks will have to be diverted to other ports, which could raise costs.
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Pew Research Center found that poverty rates range greatly among Asian American groups. While 6% of Indian Americans live in poverty, the rate is 19% for Burmese Americans.
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What do New Jazz Underground, Black Sabbath and Remi Wolf have in common? According to NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich, they put out the best tracks of the week.
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The bridge was built mere yards from where Francis Scott Key watched the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1814, inspiring him to write the song that would become the U.S. national anthem.
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With Russian troops on the offensive, Ukraine's second-largest city is taking the drastic step of moving classrooms for primary and secondary education underground.
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Support for Israel's war in Gaza has fractured along political and religious lines. But Trump's own remarks about Jewish Americans have been sharply criticized.
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The vice president has been traveling across the country, giving increasingly higher-profile remarks to key voting groups.
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