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Creative Women’s Circle will meet

Saturday, Oct. 19, is the first meeting of the year for the Creative Women’s Circle, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 1029 Bienville St. in West Davis. Members who have art supplies they would like to exchange, give away or sell are invited to bring them. Up for discussion are activities for the year, possible […]

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Davis native receives college’s Young Alumnus Award

Dr. Bobeck Modjtahedi is the recipient of this year’s UC Davis College of Biological Sciences Young Alumnus Award. Modjtahedi, the son of two graduates of the Ph.D. program in economics at UCD, was raised in Davis where he continues to have deep ties to the community and university. He completed his undergraduate degree, medical school, internal medicine internship and ophthalmology […]

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County health clinics offer flu vaccinations

The Yolo County Health Department will offer free influenza vaccination clinics this fall: * Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at University Covenant Church, 315 Mace Blvd. in Davis; and * Wednesday, Nov. 20, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Winters Community Center, 201 Railroad Ave. in Winters. Separate from the free clinics, […]

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Washington man faces assault charge

A confrontation involving a suspected burglar led to a scuffle, then an arrest on assault charges, Davis police said. It began at about 5:20 a.m. Monday in the 900 block of Cranbrook Court, where a resident spotted a man trying to gain access to parked cars, Lt. Glenn Glasgow said. The witness and another person […]

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Attempted beer theft ends with robbery charge

A beer run gone bad led to the arrest of a 50-year-old man on robbery charges Monday, Davis police said. Lt. Glenn Glasgow said officers were summoned at about 3:25 p.m. to the Fast & Easy Mart, 1601 Research Park Drive, where an employee reported that a man had attempted to steal a 30-pack of […]

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Suicidal man saved from freeway overpass

Traffic was diverted from a portion of Interstate 5 in Woodland for about an hour Monday night as law-enforcement officers responded to a suicidal male on a freeway overpass, according to the Yolo County Sheriff’s Department and California Highway Patrol. Sheriff’s spokesman Mark Persons said deputies were notified shortly after 6:30 p.m. of a man […]

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Large pot stash leads to arrest

Yolo County sheriff’s deputies arrested a Vallejo man Monday after allegedly discovering 59 pounds of marijuana in his car. John Harrison Bedenfield, 35, was taken into custody following a 1:30 p.m. traffic stop on Interstate 5 and County Road 6 in Dunnigan, where a deputy made the find after smelling the odor of marijuana coming […]

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Poets featured Thursday evening at Davis gallery

Poets Alan Williamson and Jeanne Foster will read their works at 8 p.m. Thursday at the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. in downtown Davis, as part of the Poetry Night Reading Series. Williamson recently retired from UC Davis and is teaching his last graduate poetry workshop. He will continue to teach in the Warren […]

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