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The Davis Joint Unified School District will be offering free lunches to all children 18 and under beginning June 23. Lunches will be available from 11 a.m. to noon at Holmes Junior High School, 1220 Drexel Drive, from June 23 to Aug. 8 and at Montgomery Elementary School, 1441 Danbury St., from June 23 to […]
Freddie Oakley easily held on to the newly expanded office of Yolo County clerk-recorder-assessor on Tuesday, defeating challenger David Schwenger by taking 67.1 percent of the vote. Oakley received 15,381 votes to Schwenger’s 7,540. Now, Oakley will oversee the merging of her offices — currently clerk-recorder and registrar of voters — with that of the county assessor, a […]
Pioneer Elementary School fourth-grader Ellie Bukowski was the grand prize winner in this year’s student art contest sponsored by the Water Resources Association of Yolo County. Ellie received a $100 cash prize from the Blue Wing Gallery in Woodland and her classroom at Pioneer, taught by Catherine West, received a $125 cash prize. Ellie and […]
Davis High School is warning of a possible case of pertussis at the school and urging parents to be on the lookout for symptoms in their children. The school sent an email to parents Wednesday evening that said there has been “at least one possible case of pertussis (whooping cough) at Davis High School” and […]
The two candidates for Yolo County clerk-recorder-assessor have largely financed their own campaigns, with two-thirds of incumbent Freddie Oakley’s donations coming in the form of a loan from her husband and all of David Schwenger’s donations coming from himself and his wife. Schwenger, a senior real property appraiser who has worked in the county assessor’s […]
WOODLAND — Efforts to save the Yolo Crisis Nursery took a giant step forward on Tuesday — a $200,000 step, in fact. Representatives of Woodland Healthcare and the Kelly Foundation each announced grants of $50,000, two family foundations donated $10,000 each, and the Yolo County Board of Supervisors voted to allocate $80,000 toward saving the […]
Yolo County supervisors will consider allocating funds to help save the Yolo Crisis Nursery when the board meets on Tuesday morning. County staff is recommending that supervisors approve $40,000 on Tuesday and commit to holding another $40,000 in contingency, dependent on finding a new host agency to operate the crisis nursery. The nursery provides emergency […]
EMQ FamiliesFirst threw a lifeline to supporters of the Yolo Crisis Nursery this week, announcing that it is willing to continue operating the nursery for an additional six months while the community searches for a new host agency for the facility, which provides emergency care for children ages 0-5 whose parents are in crisis. In […]
WOODLAND — A Yolo County Jail psychiatrist testified Monday that she thought Aquelin Talamantes might be embellishing her symptoms of mental illness after being charged in the drowning death of her 5-year-old daughter last September. Talamantes, 29, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to allegations that she drowned Tatiana Garcia in the bathtub […]
The Yolo Crisis Nursery is not the only child safety-net program at risk locally. First 5 Yolo, which funds numerous programs aimed at improving life for children ages 0-5 and their families, is facing a fiscal cliff next year, when the agency’s annual budget may be cut in half, forcing some tough choices on which […]
History moved out of the classroom and into the fresh air and sunshine at Holmes Junior High School last week, giving students an opportunity to experience in an interactive way what normally comes to them in textbooks. On Tuesday, all Holmes seventh-graders spent the day immersed in the Renaissance, traveling from station to station around […]
The number of pertussis cases in California during the first four months of 2014 is more than triple the number seen during the same period a year ago, and state and county officials are urging all pregnant women and anyone who lives with or cares for infants and young children to be vaccinated. Since the […]
WOODLAND — A Woodland man accused of fatally injuring his infant son returned to the stand on Wednesday and continued to insist, under cross-examination by the prosecution, that he never physically harmed any of his children. Quentin Stone, 40, has pleaded not guilty to felony and misdemeanor child endangerment charges handed down in August in […]
WOODLAND — A Woodland man accused of fatally injuring his infant son took the stand in his own defense Tuesday, repeatedly fighting back tears as he described the final month of his young son’s life. Three-month-old Samuel Stone died in October 2012 of what prosecutors contend were traumatic head injuries consistent with ongoing abuse — […]
