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• Deputies investigating attempted infant abduction in Lockeford

• Flying off the shelves

• Five will offer challenge to Delta trustee incumbents

• North San Joaquin Water tries to remove groundwater charge repeal from ballot

• Herald Days fun festival this weekend

• Regional Roundup

November 21st, 2009

• Logbook

• Holiday drive spreads cheer to U.S. troops

• Galt High students want board to approve open-campus policy

• Poisoning victims remain hospitalized

• Expert: Half a mushroom cap can be deadly

• Tokay grad files claim over Lodi's Grape Bowl

• Lodi Middle School holds annual Turkey Trot

• Regional Roundup

• No motive or suspect in shooting

• Sacramento cop arrested for alleged kidnapping

November 20th, 2009

• Acampo woman killed

• Salvation Army Kettle Kickoff

• Advocacy groups sue East Bay Municipal Utility District over Pardee expansion

• Regional Roundup

• Galt plans to help residents with energy-efficient projects

• Stable southeast of Lodi approved

• One year after a heart attack, Lodi's Judy Mims thanks rescuers

• National Guard troops return home in time for the holidays

• Real estate market gets on more solid ground

November 19th, 2009

• Operation: Christmas

• Logbook

• Suspect arrested after hiding in fridge

• Chase ends in crash

• Galt Joint Union High School Distric hires new superintendent

• Sales tax hike yields dividends: 5 new officers join Galt Police

• Lodi Unified School District board votes to cancel summer school for 2010

• Water surges in Mokelumne River yield more salmon

• Lodi City Council will consider redevelopment next June

• Lodi City Council plans to cap number of taco trucks at 22

• Corrections

November 18th, 2009

• Regional Roundup

• Paranormal group conducts second investigation of building

• Congress allocates money for local water projects

• Sarah Palin's book hits the shelves: Locals react

• Lodi man finds wife's ashes during police display of stolen property

• Galt City Council rejects study on rent stabilization

November 17th, 2009

• Paying tribute to a Lodian

• Lodi Budget and Finance Committee to look into ways to save money on employee benefits

• Regional Roundup

• Decision on summer school expected at tonight's Lodi Unified School District meeting

• Clements gets free water rescue boat

• Redevelopment to be discussed by Lodi City Council again

• Court reinstates death penalty for killer of Lodi grad

• Clarification

November 16th, 2009

• Correction

• Public Meetings

• City Council 'triple-dog dared' to ditch cars, use Lodi buses

• Sierra Adventure store to close after four years in Downtown Lodi

• Lodi's First Sip event showcases area wineries' latest vintages

• Three members of Lodi-area family fall ill after eating poisonous mushrooms they reportedly found at Lodi Lake

• Regional Roundup

November 14th, 2009

• Galt school district narrows superintendent search to one

• Regional Roundup

• Despite budget cuts, some Lodi Unified School District salaries continue to rise

• Watchful neighbor in Lodi helped bust suspected burglars

• New Galt city manager juggles job, family

• Despite an increase in homeless students, school districts look to bolster enrollment, raise revenue

• A first look at 2009 vintages at Lodi's First Sip wine-tasting event

The following stories have received the most reader comments during the last 7 days.

• The country's mess is our fault (170)
• Obama is not a moderate (130)
• Public health care is a Christian option (80)
• Sarah Palin's book hits the shelves: Locals react (73)
• Lodi City Council plans to cap number of taco trucks at 22 (52)
• The haves should help the have-nots (31)
• Tokay in, traveling to unbeaten No. 3 Grant for football playoffs (25)
• Government-run health care is a bad idea (25)
• Young woman fatally shot at Acampo home (18)
• Sierra Adventure store to close after four years in Downtown Lodi (17)

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Business Briefs

Walnut growers to vote on assessment cap

A referendum of the California Walnut Commission will be held in the coming weeks for growers to consider an increase in the assessment cap from the current $0.01 to a new cap to be set at $0.015 per in-shell pound. This assessment cap can only be changed by a vote of the growers.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture will conduct the referendum in August 2008. Ballots will be mailed to all walnuts growers throughout the state in coming weeks, according to a press release sent out by the CWC.

Walnut growers established the CWC in 1987 to represent growers in export marketing activities. At that time, the assessment was established $0.01 per in-shell pound. Despite the cap, assessments for the first six years of the Commission's existence were set at $0.005 by the members. In 1993 in response to a long-term reduction in the federal funding the industry received the CWC members raised the assessment to $0.009 per in-shell pound. During the next nine crop-years, the rate was raised to the cap of $0.01. In 2003 the assessment was lowered to $0.009, in both the 2004 and 2005 crop-years it was lowered to $0.0088 and in 2006 the assessment declined to $0.0079. In 2007 the assessment was increased to the full $0.01 allowed and it remains there as of present.

Anzaldo elected to New York Life council

Oscar A. Anzaldo, LUTCF, has been elected a member of the 2008 Chairman's Council of New York Life Insurance Company. Members of the Chairman's Cabinet rank in the top three percent of New York Life's sales force of approximately 11,000 licensed agents.

As a Chairman's Council member, Anzaldo is invited to attend the Chairman's Council Meeting at The Westin Palace in Madrid, Spain on September 8.

Anzaldo has been a New York Life agent since 1983, and is associated with New York Life's Stockton general office.

Anzaldo is a member of National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, California Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Stockton Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Life Underwriters Political and Legislation Committee, AHIA, Million Dollar Round Table, Tracy Lead Finders, San Joaquin County Latino Business Exchange, Tracy Hispanic Leads Group and New York Life Hispanic Conference.

New York Life Insurance Company, a Fortune 100 company founded in 1845, is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States and one of the largest life insurers in the world.

Mary Kay consultant attends national seminar

Erin Griffith, of Stockton, joined more than 35,000 Mary Kay independent business owners from throughout the United States at the company's annual seminar, held in Dallas, Texas. The seminar lasts from July 17 to Aug. 2.

The annual event is held to educate, motivate and recognize the accomplishments of the growing Mary Kay sales force. There are more than 1.8 million beauty consultants in more than 30 worldwide markets that sell the cosmetic products.

Griffith began her Mary Kay business in 2006, and is currently an independent beauty consultant. At the seminar, Griffith was recognized for consistently keeping her customers informed of new products.

Attendees to the conference were encouraged to collect used pink Mary Kay compacts from clients to recycle at the event. For every returned compact, Mary Kay Inc., will plant a tree in the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana and Idaho through a partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation.