Sacramento

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...

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 →

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...

The Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency is holding a public meetIng tonight at the SETA Building, 925 Del Paso Blvd.The purpose of the meeting is to provide information on the process of redevelopment now that state law has abolished redevelopm...

Professional genealogist Lisa B. Lee will speak this Sunday at a workshop intended to help African Americans learn about the variety of available resources for tracing ancestors and building a family tree. Owner of Got Genealogy.com, Lee has been been...

The Sacramento Police Department swarmed the East Sacramento region around the SMUD headquarters on S and 65th Street Tuesday night after a man apparently shot and killed another person before using the gun on himself. According to preliminary reports,...

Sacramento, will you please do me a favor? Honk at red light runners. Obviously the possibility of a stiff fine won't deter most people, so we've got to resort to peer pressure. Hardly anyone in this town honks. I drove home one night and saw 5 dif...

With all the technological advances in the past decade along came a little thing in the pet world called the Microchip or "chip". This little device is only about the size of a grain of rice, yet it could mean the difference between having your lost...