City's incumbents reelected, but West Sac school board race too close to call

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — NOV 14, 2012 – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor West Sacramento voters spoke last week on several local issues. A week later, what we know almost for certain is that city council incumbents Bill Kristoff and Oscar Villegas fended off professional boxer Oleg Maskaev to retain their seats on the council, [...]

NEWS-LEDGER ONLINE — TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012 – UPDATED Nov. 13. With about 3,000 “provisional ballots” (representing about 25% of the vote in this race) still being sorted at the Yolo County Elections Office as of Nov. 13, the results are still early & unofficial. But here is how the local races in West Sacramento [...]

CANDIDATE INTERVIEW: Oscar Villegas

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — OCT 31, 2012 –   EDITOR’S NOTE: This News-Ledger has interviewed each of the candidates running for city council and school board in West Sacramento this fall. Below is the article resulting from our chat with Oscar Villegas, the city councilman seeking another term. We hope these interviews help you make [...]

Katie Villegas, school board candidate

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — OCT 17, 2012 –   EDITOR’S NOTE: This interview comes from the Oct. 17 edition of the News-Ledger newspaper. It is part of our series to bring you an in-depth look at each of the people running for city council and school board in West Sacramento this year. By Steve Marschke [...]

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 8, 2012 – In today’s News-Ledger newspaper, we mentioned that Alicia Cruz (“parent/community volunteer”) and Coby Pizzotti (“consultant/legislative advocate”) have filed candidacy papers for the school board election. Fresh news this morning is that Katie Villegas has just done the same. She is executive director of the Yolo County Children’s Alliance [...]

Villegas is new 'mayor pro tem'

NEWS-LEDGER ONLINE – DEC 9, 2011 – The West Sacramento City Council selected Oscar Villegas as Mayor Pro Tem for the next year, effective Dec. 7, 2011. He succeeds William Kristoff, who will continue his term on the City Council. The Mayor Pro Tem serves in the absence of the Mayor when the Mayor is [...]

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