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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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Proponents of a post-dam diversion have decided what kind of structure they’ll ask for when PG&E submits its license surrender application for the Potter Valley Project. A number of questions have yet to be answered, especially about sediment management and how much water will continue to flow from the Eel into the Russian River. But after months of committee meetings and analyses across a wide spectrum of interest groups, a new joint powers authority decided unanimously on March 19 to pursue a pump station that would divert water from the Eel River into the Russian River during high flows.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Local NewsThe Fort Bragg City Council passed a resolution integrating the CV Starr Community Center into the city, with a compensation plan for employees, effective February 11. Stella Gerkins of KMUD news reports on the presentation by Fort Bragg City Manager Isaac Whippy and Mendocino Coast Recreation and Parks District administrator Moneque Wooden, who is now running the CV Starr center.
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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.
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Local NewsCandidates threw punches and got a few laughs at a well-attended forum in Ukiah on Thursday night.
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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.