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• On his way to the Cocktail World Cup

• Lodi Hall of Fame

• Lodi police kept busy over long Labor Day weekend

• Public meetings

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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

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• San Joaquin County considers moratorium on new Williamson Act contracts

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

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• Regional Roundup

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• 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

• Jason Behrmann is unanimously named Galt's city manager

• Regional Roundup

• 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

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

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

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

• Regional Roundup

• Group investigates reports of haunting

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Water district still longing for Lodi water

A local water district is still hoping to convince the city of Lodi to give it 1,000 acre-feet of water — free of charge — to help replenish the area's groundwater basin.

Meeting this morning, the North San Joaquin Water Conservation District board voted to send a letter to the Lodi City Council requesting the water.

District Manager Ed Steffani told the water board, which serves roughly the eastern half of Lodi and rural areas to the north and east, that Lodi hasn't used water it purchased from the Woodbridge Irrigation District the past five years because the city has yet to construct a water treatment plant.

While the city of Lodi has 30,000 acre-feet "banked" in storage, Steffani questions whether the city will be able to store all that water once the water treatment plant is completed.

Steffani and North San Joaquin board members have an idea — give 1,000 acre-feet to North San Joaquin for its Calfed-funded recharge project on the Mokelumne River near Woodbridge and Dustin roads.

The pump and fish screen for the Calfed project are in place, and a pipeline will be installed on Monday, and that should take a week to complete, Steffani said. So the district will be ready — except that it doesn't have any water to use.

North San Joaquin normally would have the water it needs for the project, but it hasn't received any Mokelumne River water because of the dry winter this year.

For more of this story, see Wednesday's News-Sentinel.

Contact reporter Ross Farrow at rossf@lodinews.com.

First published: Tuesday, September 2, 2008