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THURSDAY Too cool to stand Someone refused to get up and move their car because their legs were cold on Vista Way. FRIDAY Knock on wood Someone uprooted a tree and put it in across a door on B Street. Mow them down Several landscapers were up on the roof of a house on Waxwing […]

While several Davis teachers turned their back on a meeting with the Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD) to show their outrage at a proposal to cut their salaries by 5 percent, other community members voted in Measure C. Others still discussed the potential of the Davis Schools Foundation launching a campaign to raise $500,000. […]

The percentage of California high school graduates entering the state’s public higher education has fallen 20 percent in the last five years, shows a recent report from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). The report examined the impact of state disinvestment in higher education on the percentage of high school graduates enrolling in University […]

While Davis is generally considered a relatively safe and crime-free area, there are times that require extra caution. On Monday, May 7 a Davis man wanted for a weapons charge allegedly barricaded himself in a house on Adrain Drive and kept the police occupied for over five hours before surrendering. According to Lt. Paul Doroshov […]

There will be a free community-wide festival organized by the Davis Chamber of Commerce from 4:30 to 9 p.m. at the Community Park located at 1405 F Street. Celebrate Davis! is part picnic, part music festival and part business expo. Businesses and organizations will have booths. Davis City Council candidates Lucas Frerichs, Sue Greenwald and […]

The University of California (UC) has announced that it will be consolidating shared services, including routine payroll, benefits, leave management and workforce administration, at UC Riverside as part of its Working Smarter Initiative. Each campus currently operates these functions independently. This new center called UCPath (Payroll, Academic, Personnel, Timekeeping and HR), will begin by serving […]

Family and graduate student housing apartment complexes Orchard and Solano Parks will be closing in 2014 and 2016, respectively. This separation of closure is to facilitate a transition for existing graduate students living on campus. These complexes are managed by UC Davis Student Housing and will be redeveloped. This means that properties will be closed, […]

As Pablo Picasso once said, “action is the fundamental key to all success.” Most have heard some variation of this advice many times over; UC Davis students, Corey La Rue and Evan White, took it to heart. As aspiring writers, La Rue, a senior philosophy major, and White, a senior English major, understand the difficulty […]

Thursdays at Sutter Davis Hospital this summer will feature the Davis Farmers Market for its second year running. Sutter Davis Hospital and the Davis Farmers Market have been partners for several years. “They wanted to bring the Farmers Market to people that work there, to physicians and to the neighborhood,” said Executive Director of the […]

Although the Davis Food Co-op was first established in the living room of a city resident, the grocery store now has quite the reputation as being high quality and sustainable. Since its origins as a seventies child — having been actualized in 1972 — the Co-op has come a long way now offering free monthly […]

Fifteen years of designing and 14 months of construction later, the sprawling 9,700-square-foot Davis Hillel House recently opened its doors to the community. Located at 328 A St. in Downtown Davis, the Hillel House has been dedicated to leading donor Sam Len, who passed away in January. The house offers students a convenient stop of […]

Beginning May 2, a dozen California State University (CSU) students held a hunger strike across six campuses, vowing to continue fasting until their demands for a five-year tuition moratorium, cutbacks on executive and administration pay and more freedom of expression on campuses were met. After nine days, the students called it quits after negotiations came […]