FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — MAY 15, 2013 – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor Sailor Joseph Pinola had been at sea for eight months on the USS John C. Stennis, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. So he had not yet met his five-month old daughter when he returned to town on April 29. Still, the 22-year [...]
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — NOV 28, 2012 – COLUMN BY DARYL FISHER Note: Longtime West Sacramento resident John Ohlson died last week at the age of 97. He lived a rich and rewarding life, spoke numerous languages, saw the good in everyone, and was always interested in everything that was going on around him. [...]
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — NOV 14, 2012 – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor West Sacramento has become the first California city to be certified by the state controller with a clean bill of health for the manner in which the city “wound down” its redevelopment agency assets. When the state abolished redevelopment agencies in a [...]
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — NOV 7, 2012 – The local River City Democratic Club presented West Sacramento’s John Ohlson with a plaque and a cake last month, in honor of his decades of service to the party’s work. “Others deserve it more,” Ohlson commented at the presentation. He and his late wife, Grace Ohlson, have [...]
FROM THE WEST SACRAMENTO NEWS-LEDGER — SEPT 5, 2012 – Former West Sacramento resident John Vinson reports that he will shortly begin installing hundreds of American flags at the corner of South River Road and Jefferson Boulevard in Southport. Vinson creates the annual flag display as a remembrance of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, [...]
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER SEPT 14, 2011 The flags went back up from Friday to Sunday to commemorate 9/11. The display, at the corner of South River Road and Jefferson Boulevard in Southport, was the work of John Vinson. He’s put up a flag display every year since 9/11. This year, in addition to several hundred [...]
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