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Back in the fall of 2012 when she began the whole college application process, Valerie Hurst was feeling some ambivalence. The thought of picking a place where she would spend the next four years — not to mention a whole lot of money — without really knowing where she wanted to be or what she […]
Davis High School sends the vast majority of its graduates straight off to college every year.
Among last year’s Class of 2013, 70 percent headed to four-year colleges and another 20 percent to two-year programs, with many of those students now back in Davis having completed their freshman year. Valerie Hurst and Richie Farman had long expected to be among them.
As it does for so many Davis students, college was …
Much has changed since a group of Davis women formed a local chapter of the League of Women Voters 57 years ago. Davis was a small town back then — population about 7,000 — but already growing quickly, having doubled in size in just seven years. The league women, who numbered 40 in their first year, […]
More than 20 percent of students in the Davis Joint Unified School District were eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals at school this year, and thanks to a federally funded program, many may continue to receive at least one nutritious meal every weekday this summer. Beginning Monday, all children under the age of 18 will be able […]
The signs of early memory loss can be subtle: forgetting to take a medication, missing an appointment or struggling to manage finances. But often the individual suffering those losses can still manage his daily life quite well — driving, working and doing many of the things he’s always done, whether it’s making a meal, finishing a crossword puzzle or grocery shopping.
“Many people with early memory loss live independently still, but they’re noticing some changes,” says Cindi Unger, memory care director at Carlton Plaza, 2726 Fifth St. in Davis.
And with that awareness — that cognitive changes are happening — can come anxiety, depression, a loss of self-confidence and withdrawal.
WOODLAND — Yolo County supervisors approved a preliminary $308 million budget for 2014-15 on Tuesday and will give final approval to a spending plan in September. The budget features flat revenue growth and the only new positions approved by supervisors Tuesday were those funded by state and federal sources, all in the areas of health […]
U.S. News named Yolo County America’s 30th healthiest county for kids on a top-50 list dominated by Northern California. The rankings, America’s 50 Healthiest Counties for Kids 2014-15, were developed in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, which evaluates health data for the annual county health rankings released by the University of […]
Yolo County supervisors will take a first look at the recommended county budget for 2014-15 when the board meets on Tuesday morning. The proposed budget looks a lot like the one approved by county supervisors last year, with total expenditures of $308 million and three unfunded liabilities totaling $589 million, the largest of which — $305 […]
Protect yourself What: Yolo County Health Department immunization clinics When: 2-5 p.m. Mondays Where: In West Sacramento on the first Monday of each month, 500-B Jefferson Blvd.; in Woodland on the second, third and fourth Mondays of the month, at 137 N. Cottonwood St. Info: 530-666-8562 Pertussis has reached epidemic proportions in California and only nine counties […]
WOODLAND — Yolo County became just the third county in California to fully implement Laura’s Law when supervisors voted Tuesday to turn what was a yearlong pilot project into a regular program. Named after a Nevada County woman who was murdered by a man with a long history of mental illness, the law allows courts to […]
North Davis Elementary School students have extended the hand of friendship all the way to Africa, and thanks to a Davis High student and her mom, that friendship is now evident on the wrists of hundreds of children in Ethiopia. Lauren Cordano, who graduates from Davis High School this week, traveled to Ethiopia with her […]
Back in 1965, when polio was spreading through rural Honduras, a 29-year-old youth pastor in Houston named Guy Bevil decided to do something about it. He formed a team of teenagers and led them deep into Honduras where they joined efforts to inoculate people against the epidemic. “We wanted to work in the most abandoned […]
KNIGHTS LANDING — There was a calmness, a peacefulness to the Knights Landing cemetery on Friday morning. A late-spring breeze rustled the leaves overhead and the quiet was broken only by the occasional car passing by on County Road 102, a crop duster flying overhead and the goats that gathered at a fence dividing the cemetery […]
WOODLAND — Daniel Marsh’s trial on charges of fatally stabbing an elderly Davis couple last April has been delayed again. Yolo Superior Court Judge David Reed vacated the June 16 trial date on Thursday in the wake of Marsh changing his plea earlier this week to not guilty by reason of insanity. The delay allows […]
