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• Lodi fear factor

• Bones found

• 'My family is dead and in the ground, but their spirit is not'

• San Joaquin lead expert gives talk to local school

• Armed man robs Lodi gas station

• Regional board grants Lodi wastewater permit

• Legislation to double fines on Highway 12 moves forward

• Council of Governments to hear rail request

November 2nd, 2009

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

November 7th, 2009

• Lodi High graduate was at Fort Hood

• Lining up for flu shots in Lodi

• Tour packs buses as birdwatchers admire Sandhill cranes

• City of Lodi staff looking into possibility of limiting number of taco trucks

• Daytime thieves targeting Lodi homes

• Lodi High School rally featured on 'Good Day Sacramento'

• Out of control

• Homicide suspect Anthony Hubbard arraigned

• Regional Roundup

• New Lodi Memorial rule to combat spread of H1N1: Visitors must be older than 16

November 6th, 2009

• Short sales make up nearly half of Lodi market

• Regional Roundup

• Lodi man accused of smuggling drugs, weapons for inmates at state prison

• 'I-5 Strangler' sentenced to 6 terms of life

• Jury convicts Acampo man of torture, assault of his girlfriend

• Young girl is 200,000th person to assemble AIDS, HIV care kit

• Woman in wheelchair struck by car

November 5th, 2009

• A lower Lodi Lake

• Streetside scarecrows

• San Joaquin County considers moratorium on new Williamson Act contracts

• Speakers address Lodi Unified School District budget shortfalls, plea to keep programs

• Armed robbers still targeting Lodi shops

• Regional Roundup

• California voters have final say over $11 billion water bond

• Weekend bus service to continue until Lodi City Council makes decision

• Paul Tebbel shines spotlight on sandhill cranes

• Your complete guide to Sandhill Crane Festival

• David Diskin is first to give an invocation under new city of Lodi policy

• Man wanted in Acampo homicide gives up to San Joaquin County Sheriff's detectives

November 4th, 2009

• Candle fire

• Rep. Jerry McNerney sets telephone town hall for Thursday

• Regional Roundup

• Lodi City Council weighs raising fares to restore some bus service

• Galt City Council argues over ordinance hiring residents

• San Joaquin County sues state over prison hospital planned for Stockton

• Big win for Allen Baroni in reclamation election

• California sends Democratic loyalist John Garamendi to Congress

• Bicycling father raising awareness of teen suicide

• Jason Behrmann is unanimously named Galt's city manager

November 3rd, 2009

• 500 attend service for Kyle Coumas

• Correction

• Galt considers ordinance that would require city contractors to hire locally

• Regional Roundup

• Have you seen a missing guide dog puppy in Lodi?

• Galt man dies after weekend Highway 12 crash

• Jason Behrmann is top candidate for Galt city manager

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

• Clarification

November 2nd, 2009

• Downtown Lodi trick or treat

• Public Meetings

• Correction

• Kyle Coumas funeral today

• Regional Roundup

• Sandhill Cranes Festival comes to Lodi next weekend

• Lamborghini lovers gather for show, fine wine, luncheon in Woodbridge

• Lodi's 'Biggest Loser' Christy Richesin runs 5K Halloween race

• 27-year-old man shot to death Saturday night in front of Acampo home

• Group investigates reports of haunting

October 31st, 2009

• Area schools have no plans of closing due to H1N1 virus

• Tokay High evacuation

• Gated communities in Lodi

• Finishing touches on Hill House replica

• Regional Roundup

• In remembrance of Kyle Coumas

• Lodi-area Halloween events

• City of Lodi settles case of mistaken identity

• Lodi a reflection of Halloween's retail emergence

• Izzy Laviola and Seth Siddle-Mitchell crowned Tokay homecoming queen and king

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• David Diskin is first to give an invocation under new city of Lodi policy (70)
• The Treaty of Tripoli hoax (58)
• Universal health care solves big problems (57)
• Here's what my father knew about the assassination of JFK (35)
• Stuck in neutral? Hardly! (27)
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• City of Lodi staff looking into possibility of limiting number of taco trucks (20)
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Letter against helping aquifer made no sense

The letter printed by Bill Fuhs, which was against helping our aquifer, made no sense, other than he is consistent about blaming all problems related to a lower water table on Fred Weybret.

Can anybody who knows Fred readily imagine him out there draining our aquifer for the last 30 years? Yep, it was Fred who drilled all those wells into the aquifer. Yep, he installed all the pumps.

Yep, maybe he should be blamed for the dry winter, too. Yep, according to Fuhs, the efforts by Fred and the NSWCD to preserve and recharge our aquifer are bad and should be stopped by signing a petition.

So, here we are with a declining aquifer that has a river running across the middle of it (i.e. the Mokelumne) that two years ago overflowed its banks and gushed with excess water running off to the ocean.

It often does that in wet years. Yet it is a bad idea to channel that excess water into the aquifer. According to Fuhs, the water district's funding should be taken away by signing a petition so it can't build systems to put this water to beneficial use to replenish our aquifer.

Isn't this kookery? Is it better to send water rightfully belonging to the people of this area downstream to others, or to the ocean?

Dona Costa
Lodi