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A warm winter has led to an early almond harvest and one of California’s largest almond crops to date. Yolo County’s almond crop alone is valued at $41 million — and its walnut crop at $49 million — and both are expected to grow as the total planted acreage moves from non-bearing to bearing, the county reports. […]
What can a teenager do when his friend’s mom is diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, beyond simply being there as a friend? Well if he’s Joe Blakewell, he can spearhead a campaign to raise thousands of dollars to support cancer patients and cancer research, and enlist his friend in the process. Blakewell, an incoming junior […]
WOODLAND — County supervisors this week heard the good, the bad and the ugly about the state of health among Yolo County residents when they received the county Health Council’s annual report on Tuesday. Outgoing council chair Dr. Michael Wilkes told supervisors that overall, “things are going very well.” “We’ve seen some amazing improvement in […]
WOODLAND — Efforts to update the county’s zoning code continued Tuesday as the Board of Supervisors approved a number of changes to the final draft, including several aimed at making it easier for residents in agricultural areas to do more with their land without triggering the need for use permits. At the request of Capay […]
WOODLAND — The Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday weighed in on the draft environmental impact report for the proposed expansion of the Valero oil refinery in Benicia — an expansion that would lead to some 70,000 barrels of crude oil traveling by rail through Yolo County every day. The board, by a 3-2 vote, […]
The pertussis epidemic continue to spread in Yolo County with 23 new cases reported in the past two weeks, bringing the total this year to 70. By comparison, Yolo County reported four cases in all of 2013, six in 2012 and five in 2011. Most local cases involve elementary-school age children and teenagers, according to county health […]
Behind every Davis teen doing something exceptional invariably stands an adult or two who help make exceptional possible.
Sometimes it’s a parent or a teacher, and sometimes it’s someone like longtime Girl Scout leader Brenda Cameron.
Cameron has served as director of the popular Davis Girl Scout Day Camp since 2008, and before that as an adult volunteer and registrar.
The weeklong camp takes place every summer at the Girl Scout Cabin in Slide Hill Park, drawing as many as 100 Girl Scouts between the ages of 6 and 12 from the greater Sacramento area for a week of fun activities, including a traditional Thursday night camp-out in the park.
Some Davis Boy Scouts have made flying the flag on patriotic holidays a breeze — and have made some residential streets very festive in the process.
From Rockwell Drive in Wildhorse to Joshua Tree Street in West Davis — and many places in between — flags were flying this Fourth of July thanks to the Scouts in Troop 139, who are offering a subscription service to residents. For a fee, the Scouts will come out early on the morning of six patriotic holidays, raise an American flag in the front yard and then return in the evening to lower and remove the flag.
The number of sexually transmitted diseases continues to increase in Yolo County, mirroring increases being seen statewide and across the country, according to data released by the state Department of Public Health this week. Locally, officials have seen the chlamydia rate climb steadily between 2010 and 2013, from a rate of 272.3 cases per 100,000 […]
The bounty of Davis school gardens doesn’t disappear just because the students do. All summer long, dedicated garden coordinators and other volunteers usually can be found taking care of upkeep and weeding, harvesting and watering at school sites around town. That’s the case this year at both Birch Lane Elementary School and Harper Junior High […]
The whooping cough epidemic continues to spread across California with 1,100 new cases reported in the last two weeks, according to the state Department of Public Health. Yolo County, meanwhile, reported an additional 15 pertussis cases during that time frame, bringing the total so far this year to 47. There were four cases in all of […]
Homelessness continues to be an intractable problem in Yolo County, with the number of homeless having increased during the recent recession with only a slight decline since, according to a report presented to county supervisors last week. The report, Homelessness in Yolo County, identified 474 homeless individuals in the county on a single night in […]
A group of Davis teens will celebrate the culmination of a four-month immersion in public art with a festival for the whole community at the Pence Gallery on Saturday.
Createfest will feature youth art, music, food and more, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Pence, 212 D St. The event, organized by Teens Take Charge, is free of charge.
Shoshana Zeldner has been running Teens Take Charge since March, opening a window into the world of community art for the 10 participating teenagers.
Yolo County’s annual tax roll topped $21 billion for the first time, County Assessor Joel Butler announced Tuesday. Butler credited an improving real estate market and “thriving agricultural economy,” coupled with new construction and changes of ownership for increasing this year’s tax roll to $21,818,600,599 of taxable value, a 6.56 percent increase over the prior year. All […]
