EDITORIAL: public risk for hotel project

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — MAY 8, 2013 – NEWS-LEDGER EDITORIAL: The City of West Sacramento is working on a plan to boost a local riverfront hotel project, and that plan involves some degree of risk to the city general fund. That fund is the pot of money that pays for things like police and fire [...]

Saturday: everybody's an artist in West Sac

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — APRIL 17, 2013 – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor Help make some art: You’re invited to participate in West Sacramento’s “Grow Yolo Mandala,” a community art project expected to debut at the local farmers market on June 6. The art project will be a ground-level display that shows off the wide [...]

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER NEWSPAPER – Last month, a Yolo County jury found 57-year-old Fidel Alvarez guilty of “cultivation of marijuana” and “possession for sale of marijuana.”  The jury also convicted Alvarez of being armed during the commission of these crimes. According to the office of Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig: Last September, agents from [...]

'A Life's Ride': new bench is memorial

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — DEC 12, 2012 New memorial combines a West Sac man’s work, and his passion – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor In retrospect, it seems obvious: Andrew Yokoyama was a lifelong West Sacramentan, a farmer, an enthusiastic bicyclist. Why not commemorate his life with a bicycle-themed memorial right along the road so [...]

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — NOV 7, 2012 – Washington Unified School District in West Sacramento invites you to visit its redesigned website at www.wusd.k12.ca.us. The site boasts “several customer service-oriented features, including mobile-enabled viewing, a search feature, greatly improved navigation, news/announcements” and more, said a district press release. Copyright News-Ledger 2012

Elena Villegas lobbies the governor

 FROM THE WEST SACRAMENTO NEWS-LEDGER — OCT 10, 2012 – West Sacramento’s Elena Villegas (second from right) was part of a group that met with Governor Jerry Brown on Sept. 29 to promote keeping the state’s community colleges affordable to students. Brown is pictured at the left front. Villegas is a community college student active [...]

NEWS-LEDGER ONLINE — AUG 15, 2012 – Need a place to chill out during this heat wave? Do you know somebody — perhaps an elderly person — who has trouble staying cool at his or her home when it gets hot out? There are three West Sacramento “cooling stations” available, reports city spokesperson Art Schroeder. [...]

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