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Sacramento-area golf course aerification schedules, discounts

It’s the time of year when golf courses do the key maintenance procedure of aerification. Here’s our list of when each course is doing the work and what discounts are being offered because of it.

Chinese artists to be featured in Sac State exhibit

Sacramento State will host an art exhibit featuring the work of four award-winning artists from China.

SCOE Students Help Pups and Park Patrons Enjoy Renovated Howe Park

Federal Stimulus Funds Supported Service Learning Project On Thursday, August 12, 2010, to the cheers of park lovers and small dog enthusiasts, Sacramento County Office of Education ( SCOE ) community school program students helped unveil the result of a summer-long employment and service learning project at Howe Park . Students designed and built a small dog park, refurbished park benches and walking bridges, and remodeled landscaping as part of an employment training project.

Stockton road work funded by $10 million in federal stimulus dollars

It’s very difficult these days to drive around Stockton and not be slowed by road construction.  Much of the work is being funded by federal stimulus dollars.

Poll: English-speaking Latinos turn to Spanish TV

An automobile technician by day, Miguel Ramirez often returns home in a mostly white Dallas suburb to a world of romantic telenovelas, futbol or the latest U.S.

Malaria parasite research earns award for UCD grad student

University of California, Davis, graduate student Anna Drexler has been awarded a National Institutes of Health research fellowship for her work devoted to researching malaria parasites.

State halts railyard funding

Just as work hits high gear, the downtown Sacramento railyard redevelopment is threatened with stoppage.

Sacramento teens showcase their work from a Summer of Service

About 500 Sacramento teenagers who spent part of their summer working on civic-minded projects are scheduled to showcase their work Thursday.

Adams heirs skeptical about lost negatives claim

A trove of old glass negatives bought at a garage sale for $45 has been authenticated as the lost work of Ansel Adams and worth at least $200 million, an attorney for the owner said Tuesday, but the iconic photographer’s representatives dismissed the claim as a fraud and said they’re worthless. Rick Norsigian holds a glass negative in Clovis, California, on October 15, 2009, depicting Mirror Lake in Yosemite National Park

Aaron Dunn sentenced to death in Elk Grove slayings

On the day he was sentenced to death, Aaron Norman Dunn fiddled with a pencil while the judge spoke and mumbled under his breath when the wife of a man he killed suggested the defendant did the work of Satan. Aaron Dunn listens Tuesday in Sacramento Superior Court. Judge Michael W.