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Jessica Austin is on a mission to help local children affected by fires and other emergencies. Austin was moved to action after the fire at Crowell Elementary School to collect small stuffed animals for the local fire fighters to distribute. “I just thought it was a good idea to replace what they handed out at the fire. (Firefighters) keep small stuffed animals with them to pass out to children who are scared,” Austin ... Read More
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Dennis Earl Elementary students, staff and families celebrated the third annual Sixth Grade Chinese New Year Parade on Friday. 2012 is the Year of the Dragon and Earl sixth graders went all out designing and building their dragons. In Chinese culture the dragon wards off evil spirits and brings good luck. Sixth grade curriculum standards include Chinese history and students learn about the dynasties, religions and governments of ancient China. Read More
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Schools in the Denair Unified School District saw both positive and negative academic results based on the annual School Accountability Report Card, released Wednesday. Denair’s two primary schools, Denair Elementary and Denair Academic Avenues, both performed well academically, however, Denair Middle School, Denair High School and Denair Charter Academy failed to compete with other Turlock area school districts and California state averages in nearly every statistically category. The SARC serves as a ... Read More
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Turlock's Nazareth Evangelical Lutheran Church, located at 4510 Crowell Rd., will expand its youth building, following Planning Commission approval on Thursday. Read More
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As the entire country ramps up to watch “The Big Game” this Sunday the pizza industry is also hustling to get ready for what Turlock Domino’s owner Greg DeGrandis called “our Black Friday.” This Sunday DeGrandis plans to sell 4,000 hot slices of pizza, about 80 to 90 percent more than a typical Sunday. “We always look forward to Super Bowl Sunday with great anticipation. It is our busiest day of the ... Read More
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Hilmar Unified School District Superintendent Isabel Cabral-Johnson held a special informational public meeting last Tuesday evening to discuss possible courses of action for the HUSD Board of Education to take in various budget scenarios. The only clear unanimous conclusion from the meeting was that the district should plan for the worst case budget scenario and that drastic expenditure cuts must be made throughout the district. “So we are really trying to build ... Read More
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The Turlock Police Department will be conducting a DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoint at an undisclosed location in Turlock on Sunday evening. This checkpoint is paid for through a grant from the Office of Traffic Safety. This grant pays for additional DUI and traffic enforcement. Read More
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A Turlock man has been arrested on a rape charge after allegedly admitting to attacking a female relative. Miguel Angel Mendoza, 37, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of rape and is being held in Stanislaus County Jail on a $150,000 bail. According to the Turlock Police Department, the alleged rape occurred in May 2011 but wasn’t reported until December. Mendoza initially denied the attack in December, but during a subsequent interview with ... Read More
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A preliminary hearing for the murder case against Denair teenager Shanna Wills has been set for June 12. Wills, 18, is charged with murder, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. The charges stem from an encounter between Wills and her father Kenneth Wills, 62, and her mother, Susan Wills, on Mother’s Day of last year that resulted in the death of Kenneth Wills and the hospitalization of Susan Wills for severe ... Read More
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Demand for nurses will surge through 2020, while jobs in farming and ranching will decline sharply, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' new job growth projections. The projections, released every two years, are the second set released by the BLS since the close of the recession. The projections are built on the assumption of a full-employment economy in 2020. By the end of the decade, 54.8 million total job openings ... Read More
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The California Public Utilities Commission voted to let customers continue using the old analog electricity and gas meters instead of the new wireless SmartMeters, but it comes with a cost. The commission approved by a 4-0 vote, an opt out program that will charge residential customers an initial $75 fee to stay off the SmartMeters and $10 every month thereafter. Low income customers who qualify for the California Alternate Rates for Energy program ... Read More
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Emanuel Medical Center is starting the new year with a change in board members and a new chief of staff. Read More
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Over 30 years ago Rick and Teresa Kaepernick became one of the thousands of parents who suffer the loss of a child due to congenital heart defects — not once, but twice in a two year span. Their son Lance was born with a hypoplastic left heart — missing parts of the left side of his heart. For weeks the Kaepernicks sat by his crib not knowing what to do to help him. ... Read More
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The Red Steer, which was once a staple of Turlock’s dining scene, has sat vacant in the two and a half years since it was ravaged by fire and has now been put up for sale. The property is being listed by PMZ Real Estate and agent Rob Stevens said it was being sold by the entity that foreclosed on the previous owners. The last listed owners, according to Stanislaus County property tax ... Read More
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At first glance, Tanner Woods appears to be just a normal one-year-old baby boy. But lift his shirt, and the crisscrossed scars tell the story of a boy who is truly “one of a kind,” as his shirt rightly proclaims. “He looks great,” mother Monica Woods said. “You would never know anything was wrong from looking at him.” But when Woods was born on Dec. 13, 2010, he suffered from an ... Read More
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When Bill O'Brien last chaired the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors – in 2007 – the county was surging with growth and “foreclosure” was a rarely-heard word. Though times have been tough since then, the future is once again bright, O'Brien said in his 2012 State of the County address Tuesday. “I tell you today that I believe hope is now returning; that the promise of ... Read More
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Sacred Heart School in Turlock celebrates Catholic Schools Week from Jan. 29 to Feb. 5 with events on campus every day. This year’s theme is “Faith, Academics, Service.” Read More
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For Turlocker Nana Bekoe-Sakyi a recent two-week volunteer stint in his native homeland of Ghana was the opportunity of a lifetime and a chance to bring agriculture technology to a developing part of the country. Bekoe-Sakyi is an agricultural information technology and business services consultant who volunteered in December for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Farmer-to-Farmer program managed by the non-profit group ACDI/VOCA. The program relies on the expertise of volunteers ... Read More
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The Hilmar Unified School District released the 2010-11 round of School Accountability Report Cards and schools district-wide are performing above the state average. The SARC serves as a compilation of information on schools and their respective academic performances as well as enrollment, demographic, discipline, facilities and basic financial information. However, the bottom line of the report cards is how the schools are performing academically — which is measured by the Academic Performance Index. The ... Read More
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