Sarah Reith
News DirectorSarah Reith was born into a circus family in San Francisco, and ran away to join the army as soon as she turned 18. She was a parachute rigger at the jump school on Fort Benning, Georgia, where one of her incidental duties was “wind dummy,” or jumping out of an airplane ahead of a class of airborne students so the instructors could check the wind conditions. After concluding that life as a dummy lacked intellectual stimulation, she used her GI Bill to earn a BA in creative writing at Mills College for women. She worked as a bike messenger and a barista for some years before going back to school in Germany. She studied for her MA in German literature in the shadow of a medieval castle.
She came to Mendocino County in 2008 and worked as a reporter and freelancer, joining KZYX as a community news reporter in 2017. In 2018-2019, she had the life-changing honor of working with local theater and history maven Kate Magruder and brilliant reporter and policy whiz Laura Hamburg on “Promise of Paradise: Back to the Land Oral Histories of Mendocino County.” The half-hour programs aired weekly on KZYX for a year.
Sarah became the KZYX News Director in March, 2023.
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Local NewsTwo supervisors recused themselves from a closed session discussion about the first round of botched ballots that were sent out for the March 5 primary election. -
Local NewsThe VSO will move back to the small house in a quiet neighborhood, after an unpopular relocation to the Public Health building less than a block away. -
Local NewsThe Fort Bragg City Council voted unanimously at its February 26 meeting to approve a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, after about twenty people spoke in favor of it.Abraham Cohen, of a group called SURJ, or Showing up for Racial Justice, opened by reading the document. It also condemns the October 7 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians and calls for the release of all hostages and the unrestricted entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza. -
Local NewsThe Board of Supervisors chambers, the overflow room, and the courtyard at the Mendocino county government campus were packed yesterday for a highly interactive public participation hearing about two proposals from AT&T. -
Local NewsSome voters will get a third round of ballots as the elections office scrambles to make sure they are voting in the correct district, according to boundaries that were adjusted three years ago. -
Local NewsSome voters are receiving a second round of erroneous ballots to replace the misprint that every voter in the county received earlier this month. -
Local NewsThe year of the Wood Dragon is underway, with the lunar new year starting on February 10.On Friday, students from Instilling Goodness Developing Virtue Schools at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas shared dance, music and artwork with visitors to the Ukiah Library. -
Local NewsCandidates threw punches and got a few laughs at a well-attended forum in Ukiah on Thursday night. -
Local NewsThe vendor the county uses for ballot compilation, printing and mailing services has misprinted ballots in numerous elections in Colorado and Utah. Last week, all 53,000 voters in Mendocino County received Republican ballots for the first supervisorial district. -
Local NewsThe Board of Supervisors voted unanimously last week to look into funding the county museum through a non-profit model, in hopes of expanding fundraising opportunities and freeing up some of the bureaucratic constraints currently in place on the museum.Museum Administrator Karen Mattson advocated for the model in Kern county and elsewhere, where the county would retain ownership of the collections but administration would be through a foundation.Local historians spoke in favor of the proposal.
