Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Florence Markhofer Elementary in Elk Grove Unified School District is offering families low-cost portraits in time for the holidays, in partnership with Excel Photographers. Portraits will be taken from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday. The sitting fee is $10 and must be prepaid at Florence Markhofer by Tuesday. No drop-ins are allowed. One hundred percent of the sitting fees will be used to help fund...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The city of Elk Grove has won industry marks for excellence in financial reporting and for creating a budget that reflects city policy and guides fiscal operations. The city announced last week it received a Budget Presentation Award by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada for its fiscal 2008-2009 budget, which took effect July 1. The association said...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Elk Grove police are looking for a man who attempted to rob a Chevron gas station over the weekend.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Elk Grove police are searching for a man who robbed a Rite Aid store Saturday night.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The city of Elk Grove's flood control and storm drainage master plan will be the focus of a two-hour public workshop starting 6 p.m. Wednesday. The session in City Hall, 8400 Laguna Palms Way, will include a discussion of ongoing city water quality monitoring projects' findings, including those from the Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. View Larger Map
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Twenty-five Elk Grove Unified School District elementary, middle and high school students have been named winners in the Internet Safety Video Contest, a collaboration between the school district and the U.S. Attorney's Office. The contest is one component of Elk Grove Unified's Internet Safety Initiative, which involves a three-pronged approach to educate staff, parents and students...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
C.W. Dillard Elementary School in Elk Grove Unified School District has invited parents of bilingual students to a special meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the school library. Spanish-speaking parents will have a chance to meet with Dillard staff to express concerns and to maintain communication between the school and home. C.W. Dillard Elementary is located at 9721 Dillard Rd. in Wilton.
The Sacramento Business Journal (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
General Growth Properties Inc., developer of the long-delayed Elk Grove Promenade, has received a two-week extension on $900 million in mortgage loans that came due on Friday. (GGP)
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Some California officials are quite zealous about nabbing drunken drivers. Chris Murphy, head of the state Office of Traffic Safety, spotted a driver on Highway 99 in Elk Grove weaving "coast to coast." He followed her off an exit and called the California Highway Patrol as she pulled into a convenience store lot. When she exited the store, Murphy was waiting. He grabbed her keys. Or at least...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Material Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ), a leading provider of material-based solutions for acoustical and coated applications, announced today that it closed the previously announced sale of its coil coating manufacturing facility in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, and select equipment."The sale of the Morrisville factory is an important step in restructuring...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Gustavo Barajas figures he saved about $600 by waiting until the day after Thanksgiving what is now popularly referred to as Black Friday to buy a big-screen television and high-definition controller. He made his purchases at the Circuit City in Elk Grove. The weak economy robbed Black Friday of some of its sizzle. Sacramentans flocked to the region's shopping centers in the annual post-Thanksgiving...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
This is the first winter for our bougainvillea patio tree. I've moved it under the solid patio cover to protect it from frost, but I noticed the leaves are turning yellow, and many are falling. Is this normal? If not, what should I do for it? Wendy in Elk Grove Your bougainvillea is reacting to the change of environment. It's suddenly in the shade and doesn't like it. The sudden switch...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Christmas music filled the room like at other stores. Clerks were friendly. Discounts of 30 percent or more would be taken at the register. Yet something was markedly different on a two-mile stretch of Elk Grove's Laguna Boulevard. At three stores there, and at 15 more across the metro area, it was Black Friday, the bankruptcy version. Thousands of shoppers at four Linens 'n Things and nine...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
For years, Wanita Zimmerman told people that when she turned 85, she was going to jump out of a plane. So she did. "I say, strap me to a good-looking guy, and I'll jump out of anything," says Zimmerman, an Elk Grove resident who celebrated her 85th birthday last weekend with a tandem sky dive in Lodi. "I had a great time. I'd do it again in a minute." When we asked you to tell us about the...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Best Buy's Black Friday opening was more than 57 hours away when Caliista Getchell and Monica and Ruben Alvarado Jr. pitched a canopy in front of the Elk Grove store. The youngsters were continuing a tradition started by their parents. They arrived at 8 p.m. Tuesday and will wait in line over several days to get the bargains offered at the store's day-after-Thanksgiving sale. So what motivates...
