Last Tuesday, City Council approved a 5 and 3 percent increase in water and sewer rates, respectively, to take effect on Aug. 1. It is estimated that the average single-family household will see an increase of $1.23 a month for sewer and $1.76 a month for water services.

One hundred Davis City Employee’s Association (DCEA) members filled the Community Chambers at last Tuesday’s City Council meeting to address City Council’s approval of city employee contract adjustments.

Did the Aggies win a championship? Did they make the playoffs? Did they have a winning record? The answer to each of these questions is, “no”.

TODAY: Arboretum Writers in the Garden: Dorine Jennette; Eighteenth Annual Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture.

While the greek community enjoys floating homes on nearby Lake Shasta this weekend, veterans are being honored differently back in Davis. Members of the Davis Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 6949 are prepping for their annual Memorial Day ceremony, which runs from 10 to 11 a.m. at Davis Cemetery on Pole Line Road. Events […]

A lot can change in a year. That’s what a friend recently said to me. The moment she said those words, I couldn’t help but laugh a little – they sounded so dramatic and cliché to me. I imagined a season finale for “One Tree Hill” ending with some monologue and that sentence smacked right at the end of it.

TODAY Arboretum Folk Music Jam Session Noon Wyatt Deck, Old Davis Road Pull out your fiddles, guitars, mandolins and penny whistles! You are invited to an informal acoustic jam session. Meat Lab Sale 1 to 5:30 p.m. Cole C Facility

In their last concert of the ’09-’10 season, the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra (UCDSO) will present their annual Family Concert on June 3 at 7 p.m. at the Mondavi Center. Tickets are available to students for $5. The concert will feature two pieces showcasing the winners of the two different competitions held at UC Davis.

The UC Davis campus alone is home to over 10,000 trees, not including the Arboretum, with new species being planted regularly. For some students they provide shade or a place to hangout. For everyone, they provide oxygen. And though some of the trees have been around as long as the school, their origins are not widely known. In support of the trees and their stories, The California Aggie sat down with senior landscape architect Skip Mezger and assistant landscape architect Christina De Martini Reye to get the dirt on these campus giants. Tree: Cork Oak

UC Davis plans to establish a clean energy hub in the greater Sacramento-San Francisco Bay area. This hub consists of a network of researchers, government officials, corporations and investors united to utilize innovations in the marketplace. The event on May 12 was titled E3: Economic Prosperity, Energy and the Environment.

Co-captain Rachel Lee said the club’s success took awhile to register. With their first national tournament bid in club history, it’s likely they have now captured not only their own attention, but many others as well. “(The nationals) were on the radar,” said captain Rebecca Musser. “We just had to put in the work to get there. Last year was a building year and it came together this season.”

Over 100 students lined up to dance to the music of the Super Mash Brothers on May 20 at Freeborn Hall. But even for first-time listeners, the tunes were familiar. That’s because Super Mash Brothers creates mash-ups, or combinations of music originally created by other artists. Musicians, lawyers, corporations and music lovers alike have long debated the legality and legitimacy of the mash-up. And in today’s digital age, the argument is still far from settled.