City News

Following a meeting for the annual UC lobby day on Mar. 1, five students staged a sit-in in Rep. Jim Nielsen’s (R-Gerber) office. The students presented Nielsen with a document supporting increased funding for higher education and recruiting and retaining low-income students. The students refused to leave until he agreed to sign it, but Nielsen refused and the California Highway Patrol was called. UC director of gGovernment aAffairs Steve Juarez was present at the meeting that took place right before the sit-in.

Davis’s Varsity Theater is holding an open house today to showcase the technological improvements and additions that make the movie experience all the more thrilling. The theater is celebrating a second screen and further renovations on Thursday, Mar. 11 at noon at the theater on 616 2nd St. The Varsity was originally a single-screen theater in 1950 and became two screens in 1976. In 1992 it was reopened as a center for performing arts. It reverted to a single screen in 2006 when it began showing mainly independent and art house films.

Explorit Science Center on 2nd Street is making some scheduling changes.

Most teenagers anxiously await the day they turn 18, but not every young adult shares this same excitement. For foster youth, becoming a legal adult carries new responsibilities to lead an independent life.

Faced with rising water and sewer rates, the city of Davis is seeking to adopt a more efficient water treatment system.

At the annual “State of the Judiciary” on Feb. 15, California Chief Justice Ronald M. George said the structural developments of the judicial system in the past decade have been a successful fit for the economic downturn.

Members of the Davis Food Co-op want the grocery store to boycott Israeli goods in response to what they call, a pattern of severe human rights violations perpetrated by the Israeli government against the beleaguered Palestinian population that also inhabits the country.

THURSDAY

Big changes could be coming to the Davis City Council this spring, and they may not be simple ones to address.

Randii MacNear is not usually flaunting pigtails, a pink wig and a curly tail, but at Saturday’s event the Davis Farmers Market executive director became Ms. Piggy.

The light brown apple moth (LBAM) may be a native pest to Australia, but it has made its way to California – and most recently Yolo County.

Senator advances new levels of oversight, Russell bike path to undergo repair, California consumers gain access to used-vehicle information