A fun event to kick start our summer reading program. Activities include kid and family friendly games, henna tattoos, and a drum circle with the Fenix Dance and Drum Company. Hot dogs, sodas, and ice cream will be available for a modest purchase price with proceeds benefiting the Friends of the North Sacramento Library ...
Teacher Laura Bowles, standing at right in doorway, watches her third-graders go to recess at Aero Haven Elementary from her classroom, which got new flooring. Budget and enrollment shortfalls have been blamed for the decision by the Twin Rivers district to close the school ... Think of it like buying a house with a hefty mortgage that looked good when home prices were spiraling upward – but threatens to pull you under now that the housing market has tanked and your pay has been cut ...
Motorists traveling Highway 160 in Sacramento County near the Antioch Bridge can expect delays beginning Monday ... The California Department of Transportation announced that a contractor will be working Monday through Thursday to repair damaged roadway just north of the bridge. One-way traffic controls will be in effect from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on a 1 1/2-mile stretch of the highway. Flaggers will direct traffic ... Motorists should anticipate delays of up to 15 minutes and plan extra time for
Hunter Greenwood might have bowed out if it had gone more innings, but doubtful. And Jason Taasaas wasn't going to come out unless his right arm was taken apart ... With guts, guile and bandages, Franklin High School scored a milestone moment for a program basking in all sorts of athletic achievement lately ... Taasaas epitomized his team's grit with a game-saving, inning-ending tag at the plate in the seventh, and Greenwood was the winning pitcher who scored the winning run by just beating a
Last week, I was reminded that San Francisco is an international dining destination while touring North Beach with lunch pal Bill Hawkins, a construction supervisor from northeastern Georgia who was visiting the city for the first time ... His observation: "This town is all about eating and drinking." ... And just think: Not a sausage biscuit in sight ... We camped at the Kensington Park boutique hotel near snazzy Union Square. The refurbished property is housed in the gorgeous Elks Building, a
Monster winning streaks take center stage today as high school baseball playoff teams look to bear down on championships ... In the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I North playoffs at American River College, Elk Grove, winner of 18 consecutive games, meets Pleasant Grove, winner of 13 in a row, at 7 p.m ... At 4 p.m., Franklin of Elk Grove looks to end Jesuit's 15-game winning streak ... In D-II play, Oak Ridge rolls into Sacramento City College with an area-best 25-game winning streak. It plays
Server Desiree Bush prepares to deliver a meal at House Kitchen & Bar ... Let's see. Open a restaurant in a part of downtown that's pretty much empty after 5 p.m. Have floor-to-ceiling windows so everyone can look out at how dead it is. Create a menu that is decidedly lowbrow, largely unadventurous and moderately affordable. Feature a dish that involves impaling a chicken carcass with a can of beer ... Sit back and watch the money roll in ... If I were a banker and someone came to me with a
The city's plan to launch a major downtown rail relocation project appears headed for a temporary sidetrack ... Officials had planned to begin this month to move the railyard tracks slightly north for development, but contractor bids came in too high, officials said ... The lowest of five bids was $57 million, considerably higher than the city's $45 million budget, city transportation chief Jerry Way said ... "We can't legally award a bid that we don't have the funds allocated for," he said ...
Tracy Dossman, with nephew Brandon Dossman, is no longer a fosterparent. The state wants to keep it that way, but she is fighting back ... Child abuse and neglect were rampant in a crowded North Natomas foster home, where children attacked one another, their phone usage was tightly controlled and their foster mother lied to social workers about the chaotic conditions, according to new accusations by the California Department of Social Services ... Former foster provider Tracy Dossman, 42, is the
Bernard Jackson had been charged with five felonies in an Oak Park sex assault ... For 22 years, five felony counts in a sex assault case against Bernard Jackson sat pending in Sacramento Superior Court ... No action was taken on the matter after it was filed in 1984 as part of the investigation into the Oak Park rapist case, which consisted of as many as 17 assaults that began in 1983 ... Then, on Nov. 13, 2006, the charges were dismissed and the case file was either carted away to archives or