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Heather Caswell figured out early on where she belonged: in a place that celebrated art and literature, theater and music, and where her philosophy of fashion as both art form and vehicle for self-discovery encompassed all of the above. She found that place in Davis, where for the past 25 years, her store, The Wardrobe, has […]
When President Franklin Roosevelt authorized an executive order in February 1942, calling for the internment of roughly 110,000 people of Japanese descent in states on the Pacific Coast, the repercussions were felt far and wide — including Davis. And those repercussions would continue long after World War II ended.
Davis was a small town then — the 1940 census reported 1,672 residents, not counting some university students living in dorms. And Yolo County as a whole had just 27,243 residents. Government records indicate that there were 1,109 people of Japanese descent whose last known address was in Davis, Woodland or Winters.
The Davis City Council basically slammed the door on the departing internees …
Davis police are still investigating the motive behind a suspected arson fire set Sunday morning at a West Davis fraternity house. No one was injured in the incident, in which an unknown suspect or suspects started a deliberate natural gas leak at the Kappa Sigma house, 642 Adams St., then set a fire inside the […]
The Vallejo woman fatally struck by a train Sunday night in Davis was a UC Davis graduate who was active in the genetically modified organism labeling movement, and more recently showed interest in the local water fluoridation debate. Andrea Laurette Mrotz, 29, died after being struck by an eastbound Amtrak Capital Corridor train that was […]
