Thursday, February 26th, 2026
KMUD’s new Community Resources and Calendar page is now live on the KMUD website, kmud.org, under the COMMUNITY dropdown menu. Our improved calendar provides addresses, phone numbers and up to date information for farmers markets, food distributions, public meals, blood drives and other community services.
Take caution on the roads today. There will be an increased risk of rock and land slides along roadways. Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Provided you have a valid Air Quality burn permit, Thursday, February 26th, is a permissive burn day in Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte counties. Residents in state responsibility areas must also obtain a Cal Fire burn permit. Please refer to your air quality burn permit for approved burn hours and restrictions.
In Humboldt, Food for Peopleis hosting food distributions in (McKinleyville from 10 until 3pm; Willow Creek from 10 until noon and in Garberville from 10:30 until noon.
The Food for People mobile pantry will in Blue Lake, at the Blue Lake Community Resource Center, 111 Greenwood Ave., from 10 until 1pm.
The Northern California Community Blood Bank blood mobile is in Safeway in Arcata from 11 until 3pm. And as always, the Northern California Community Blood Bank is open Monday thru Friday, located at 2524 Harrison Avenue in Eureka. To schedule an appointment to donate, visit nccbb.net.
In Mendocino, the Mendocino Food Network is hosting food distributions inUkiah from 9 until 2pm and theLaytonville PopUp, 100 Cahto Dr., from noon until 1pm.
Lunches are provided for seniors at the Willits Senior Center from 11:45 until 1:00pm, and the Redwood Coast Seniors Center in Fort Bragg from 11:30 until 1:15pm. Plowshares Peace and Justice Center in Ukiah provides a hot meal weekdays from 11:30 until noon.
Meals are provided Monday through Friday at Willits Daily Bread from 4:30 to 5:30pm and at the Mendocino Coast Hospitality House in Fort Bragg at 3pm.
There will be a KMUD Board Talk Show on Wednesday, March 11th at 7 pm where the Board will talk about their plans to appoint a new member to a board seat in March, and another in April. Those interested in being considered for the Board can email [email protected] by March 12th for the first seat; or April 13th for the second seat. Thank you to everyone who contributes energy to Redwood Community Radio.
Tune in to KMUD tonight from 7 to 8pm for Books We Love with B’ianna Federico and Sarah Brooks talking about – you guessed it – books they love. Tune in, listen, call in at 707-923-3911 to join the conversation. That’s Books We Love tonight from 7 to 8pm only on the mud.
This concludes the Community Safety and Awareness Report, read weekdays at 11 and 3pm and as needed to bring you up to the minute road reports, burn permission status, emergency updates as well as programming information. We encourage our listeners to bookmark our community resources and calendar page for up to date and detailed information of all the services our community offers.