On this week's Friday Evening News Magazine KVMR News Correspondent April Glaser brings us a look at a new exhibit currently on display at Nevada County’s Rood Center. Entitled We Are Not Strangers Here, the exhibit explores the history of Black life in rural California during the time of the Gold Rush. Nevada Union High School Senior Tony Kinderman shares a message for Nevada County youth about emergency preparedness and Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti brings us a commentary on monetary inflation and his views on the newly founded Department of Government Efficiency. We close with an essay by Nevada City poet Molly Fisk.

KVMR News correspondent April Glaser explores the history of Black life in rural California through the lens of a new exhibit Rood Administrative Center in Nevada City, entitled We Are Not Strangers Here. Glaser interviews Susan Anderson, history curator of the African American Museum of California, and then Linda Jack of the Nevada County Historical Society about the history of slavery in California, rural Black family life in the state, and one prominent family of Grass Valley, The Sanks.

The cause of death is pending an autopsy and toxicology reports and the circumstances surrounding the death remain under investigation.

The Community Input Meeting on the Continuing and Future Uses of Miners Foundry Cultural Center is scheduled for Thursday, March 6th from 5 to 7 p.m. at 325 Spring St. in Nevada City.
Learn more about the Nevada City-Miners Foundry partnership on the Nevada City website.

12 gray wolves were recently captured in northern California and fitted with tracking collars. Five of those wolves are part of the Beyem Seyo pack in Sierra County.

Local protestors met with mixed reactions.

On this week's Friday Evening News Magazine we look at Nevada County’s newly appointed poet laureate, Paul Emery and retired Fed Economist Gary Zimmerman discuss the how the new administration's policy decisions might affect inflation rates, and Al Stahler speaks with Dr. Scott Kellerman, Nevada County’s former Public Health Officer, about how technology influences the doctor-patient relationship. To close it all out, Nevada City poet Molly Fisk shares a special St. Valentine's Day essay.

The City will assume operational control beginning Monday, February 17th.