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You may have noticed something in your office this week.  Small boxes of baked goods have found their way into break rooms across the country.  That's right.  It's Girl Scout Cookie time. My problem?  Candy and baked goods are lik...

Here are the results of our local boys' teams in tonight's opening round games:(Div-I) Sheldon 78, Pitman 43(Div-I) Pleasant Grove 72, Rodriguez 32 (will host Franklin Friday night)(Div-I) Franklin  , Turlock(Div-II) Cosumnes Oaks 55, Fairfield 54...

A successful community lecture series is based on collaboration. Here’s Heather Boushey, senior economist at American Progress, speaking on family friendly workplace policies. I wonder what the SES Foundation would think:

On Valentine’s Day, Save Mart Supermarkets announced the “Help Save Mart Save Our Pools” campaign.  Save Mart has pledged to match up to $500,000 in donations from businesses and the community at large, thus potentially making $1 million dollars available … Continue reading →

Here’s a cool project from the Town of Truckee: The launch of Nextdoor (www.nextdoor.com) was announced in Truckee. Nextdoor is the first private social network for neighborhoods to foster neighbor-to-neighbor and community-wide communication. Starting now, Truckee residents can use Nextdoor to create private websites for their neighborhoods where they can get to know their...

Yesterday the City Council meet to discuss the merging of the Design Commission and the Planning Commission to be renamed the Planning and Design Commission. This newly formed commission is expected to be adopted on February 28thand the recruitment pro...

Want to read about movies, movie stars, and the Academy Awards?  Look no further!  Each month the California History Section at the State Library displays books on a specific theme in its reading room, and the February theme is:  "The...

SACRAMENTO February 22, 2012 – The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today reduced its estimate of the amount of water the State Water Project will deliver this year. DWR dropped its projected delivery total, or allocation, from 60 percent to 50 p...

Thanks to several vigilant witnesses, Elk Grove Police were able to apprehend two men suspected of attempting to burglarize a car yesterday afternoon. According to police department reports, several witnesses observed two men attempting to enter a lo...