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A Davis resident drove her car into the front of the Senior Center, 646 A St., Friday, partially smashing through the cement exterior and into a bathroom on the other side of the wall, springing a leak that flooded part of the building. Just after 10 a.m., Barbara Perkes arrived to the center to deliver [...]
The Animal Services Division of the Yolo County Sheriff’s Department is seeking the public’s help to identify the person who fatally shot a cat earlier this month in Woodland. Annie, an orange domestic shorthair tabby, was shot with a pellet gun on the evening of March 13 while her owners were away from home. They [...]
Before throwing old wood or pruned tree branches into the green-recycle waste bin, consider recycling them into a living sponge that will save you from higher water bills and your garden from wilting. Modeled after the nutrient-rich and sponge-like effects that fallen trees create on forest floors, hugelkultur is a self-sustaining, self-sufficient permaculture gardening technique [...]
Lots of dogs and cats are waiting to be adopted at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland. Among them are Leia (No. 110639), a 3-year-old spayed female black and white pit bull. Also hoping for a good home is Simon (No. 104496), a 1-year 10-month-old neutered male buff domestic short-haired [...]
The Davis High School ski team took second place Monday in a slalom competition at Sugar Bowl Resort. Coach Bob Brewer acknowledged that this was the teams’ “first slalom race of the season, which proved to be a challenge for some of the racers. We know what to work on, and I expect they will [...]
The Calder Quartet — which trained at USC and the Juilliard School, and has played in recent years at Carnegie Hall in New York, Disney Hall and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival — visits UC Davis this week as part of the Art of Migration festival. The group will give three concerts — one of which is [...]
Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed Karen Douglas, 39, of Davis, to the California Energy Commission, where she has served in multiple positions since 2008, including lead commissioner for siting issues and the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. Douglas was director of the California Climate Initiative for the Environmental Defense Fund from 2005 until 2008. She worked at [...]
The Associated Students of UC Davis is sponsoring a Blood and Marrow Drive from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 22-23 at The Pavilion near the Activities and Recreation Center. All blood drive participants will receive a $5 Togo’s gift card and MyBloodSource Rewards good for a variety of items. Join Be The Match marrow [...]
What do play groups, book and wine clubs, neighborhood associations, real estate agencies, local businesses, health care providers and a random collection of families and friends have in common? They each pooled resources to adopt families served by the Yolo Crisis Nursery, ensuring 25 such families wouldn’t go without over the holidays. Once again, I’m [...]
Well-intentioned children and aquarium hobbyists seeking to “free” their pet fish down a toilet bowl or into a local waterway may inadvertently be contributing to the threat of invasive species downstream, according to a new report from UC Davis. In a report released last week to the California Ocean Protection Council, lead author Susan Williams, [...]
By Leslie Lindbo If you live in one of Yolo County’s incorporated cities, your tap water and the systems that deliver it are likely provided by a public agency, and therefore regularly and rigorously examined per state law. Private wells, however, are a different story. The quality and protection of private well drinking water is [...]
Lots of dogs and cats are waiting to be adopted at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland. Among them are Minnie Mouse (No. 108762), a 1-year-old female, domestic short-haired. gray tabby. Also hoping for a good home is Cara (No. 112083), a 4-year-old spayed female cream and buff short-haired Chihuahua. [...]
Lots of dogs and cats are waiting to be adopted at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland. Among them are Sport (No. 112364), an 8-month-old neutered male brown domestic short-haired tabby. Also hoping for a good home is Daphne (No. 112063), a 6-month-old spayed female brown and white pit bull [...]
Woodland California Highway Patrol officers are pulling their patrol cars up to schools throughout Yolo County this week to collected donations for “CHiPs for Kids,” a toy drive that provides gifts to local children who are hospitalized or disadvantaged. The “Stuff the Patrol Car” event took place Wednesday at Birch Lane and Willett elementary schools [...]
