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The grainy footage played in the multipurpose room at Da Vinci Charter Academy on Friday showed tiny bodies on stretchers being quickly unloaded from a helicopter and rushed away by U.S. military medics. Then, Vietnam War veteran Gilbert Gonzalez appeared on screen to explain the scene he had filmed more than 40 years before. A [...]
The Davis High boys volleyball team continued its recent trend of going toe-to-toe with quality opponents, this time winning a game in a 25-20, 25-16, 22-25, 25-19 loss at Roseville on Wednesday. Even in defeat, there were certainly bright spots for the Blue Devils as Andre Foster caught coach Julie Crawford’s eye with his smart [...]
A new report examines graduation rates nationwide; at UC Davis, four-year graduation rates climbed from 30 percent in 1994 to 52 percent for freshmen who entered college in 2006. The 2007 group finished slightly lower, at 51 percent. UC Davis students pedal on a bike path along Russell Boulevard just east of Sycamore Lane last [...]
The Davis High boys and girls cross country teams each posted perfect scores of 15, to dominated the Delta Valley Conference Championships on Saturday at Willow Hill Park in Folsom. The great performances bode well for the future, as the Blue Devils will run the same course at the Sac-Joaquin Section Championships. Before that, DHS [...]
The Farmers Market crew turned Central Park, Third and C streets, into a giant Fall Festival for all ages. Saturday’s festivities included a children’s costume parade, free pumpkin patch, piglet petting zoo, pony rides, hands-on crafts and science activities, raptors from the California Raptor Center, Americana music by the Peter Franklin Band and Dilly Dally [...]
