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From the City of Elk Grove | Minor repairs will require an overnight closure of the roundabout at Sheldon and Bradshaw Roads on the following dates from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.: * Thursday, June 30 * Tuesday, July 5 * Tuesday, July 12 * Wednesday, July 13 Increased Travel Times & Detours:
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Elk Grove is ‘led’ by four city council members and a mayor. Even though they are part-time legislators, one would expect them to have a basic grasp of the city’s budget. As Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen demonstrated yesterday during a question and answer session with the Sacramento Asian
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From the City of Elk Grove | In response to excessive heat temperatures forecasted this week, the City of Elk Grove and Cosumnes Community Services District will open a cooling center tomorrow through Monday, June 21-27, for residents who may lack shelter or adequate home cooling systems. The cooling center will
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June 2022, Mount Shasta, California – For the seventh year in a row, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, along with a collective of Indigenous women, activists, and allies will embark on Run4Salmon, a 300-mile Prayer Journey to restore salmon to the Mount Shasta area. Led by Chief Caleen Sisk of the Winnemem
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If all 75,000 signatures are validated by the Sacramento County Voters Registration and Election, Sacramento County voters will be asked this November if they support a 40-year $8.5 billion sales tax increase to fund road construction and repair. The group calling itself A Committee for a Better Sacramento
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Vote tallies released yesterday by the Sacramento County Voters Registration and Elections show Dave Jones maintaining a near identical percentage lead over Angelique Ashby is the District 8 California State Senate race. Jones remains in first first place with 45,211 votes for 46.56-percent. Tallies released last Friday had
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Last week Elk Grove’s former Mayor and his wife made an appearance on a show sponsored by the well-regarded Commonwealth Club. Appearing with host Michelle Meow was Steve Ly and his wife Cua Lo-Ly. During the hour-long segment Ly covered many topics including the controversial 2020 Elk Grove mayoral
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Proponents of a Sacramento County sales tax increase say they have collected enough signatures to place the measure on the countywide November ballot. Sponsored by a group called A Committee For a Better Sacramento is seeking a one-half-cent sales tax increase to fund transportation projects throughout Sacramento County. In a
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* 06/14 Rain Garden Online Workshop (11 a.m.) * 06/16 NeighborGood Market (4 p.m.) * 06/16 Cultural Connections: Juneteenth (6:30 p.m.) * 06/16 Arts Commission Meeting (6:30 p.m.) * 06/17 Planting for Beneficial Insects Online Workshop (11 a.m.) * 06/18 Oil Filter Recycling
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With controversy already stirred on a proposed supportive housing development in Elk Grove’s Old Town Special Planning Area, one candidate for the Elk Grove City Council has leveraged the issue for their campaign. That candidate is Felipe Martin, who launched the website notooakrose.com, the name of the apartment
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If there is one profession in the world, almost as old as the world’s oldest, it has to be politicians making outrageous campaign promises they cannot keep. That came to mind this morning during a traffic snarl. We were reminded of then-candidate and now Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie-Singh Allen’
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By Michael Monasky | Guest Contributor | Around noon today a solitary protester, seen with a simple, clear message on a poster board, declared his disgust for the Second Amendment to the US Constitution; it read, “Fuck your 2nd Amendment.” A city motorcycle cop announced on his public address speaker to the