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• Ahead of nationwide trend

• Local program reaches out to students, parents

• Delta board gets serious about accreditation

• Two San Ramon Valley residents battling for 15th Assembly seat

• Galt students kept home to protest teacher union against Proposition 8

• Regional Roundup

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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Community forum on gang issues to be held

A group of community members hoping to increase awareness of and fight back against gangs will hold a public forum Thursday.

The 2:30 p.m. meeting will feature talks by several former gang members, as well as brainstorming for a citizens' group that Lodi resident Doug Chaney is forming.

"It's an open forum; we're going to let the community know what kind of short and long term goals we have," Chaney said. "We need the citizenry to help stop it, especially the parents."

Ultimately, Chaney dreams of a program that would involve former gang members counseling children and keeping them from getting into gangs.

The public is welcome to attend the meeting in the community room at the Lodi Police Department, 215 W. Elm St.

Machete-wielding man robs Lodi gas station

A man wielding a machete or possibly a type of sword, robbed a Lodi gas station Tuesday morning.

Around 6:45 a.m. the man entered Econo Gas, 800 Victor Road just east of Highway 99, and demanded cash, Lodi Police Cpl. David Griffin said.

Nobody was injured, and the man fled east on foot with cash.

He was described as white, wearing all black clothing, 5-feet, 9-inches tall and about 160 pounds.

Hospital, police will stage drill today

If you see police officers and vehicles at Lodi Memorial Hospital today, don't worry — it's a drill.

The exercise is designed to help improve emergency response and communication in the event of a disaster or suspect at the hospital, according to the San Joaquin County Emergency Medical Services Agency. Such exercises are being held at all seven acute care hospitals in the county.

Coordinators said patients and visitors will not be affected and should not be alarmed at the sight of extra police presence between 2 and 6 p.m.

Federal funds for Lodi programs reallocated

The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors signed off on a $132,000 allocation of federal funds to help pay for the LOEL Center's kitchen renovation project.

At the Lodi City Council's request, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors transferred $132,173 to the LOEL Center as part of a $500,000 renovation to take over the preparation of senior nutrition meals in the county. The $132,173 allocation was transferred from a city fund for community-based organizations because several organizations' proposal were not ready to proceed, according to a city of Lodi report.

The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday also transferred $100,000 from a project to build a new community center at Blakely Park. The city shelved the Blakely Park project in order to maintain a timely expenduture of the federal funds, according to the city report. Instead,, $85,000 will be spent for the first phase of improvements for the Lodi Public Library, and another $11,000 will be used to pair tutors with adults for literacy training at the library.

Supervisors also increased allocation from $15,000 to $19,000 for the Lodi Animal Shelter's newly funded spay/neuter program.

Editor's Note: This brief was updated at 10:38 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22 to clarify the action taken by the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Oct. 21.

Hearing date set for LUSD discrimination suit

Attorneys met briefly in Stockton on Tuesday to continue the lawsuit filed earlier this year by three Christa McAuliffe Middle School teachers against the school's former principal. A new hearing date was set for Feb. 18, 2009.

The suit was filed earlier this year in San Joaquin County courts and is currently in the discovery phase, which means attorneys are taking depositions and gathering records, according to the plaintiffs' attorney Stephen Jaffe.

Jaffe is representing Tracey Singh, Sharon Verle and Kevin Duncan, who sued Lodi Unified and Russom Mesfun, Christa McAuliffe's former principal. All three are white and older than 40, and accuse Mesfun, who is black, of "creating an atmosphere in which older employees, white employees, female employees and disabled employees" were discriminated and retaliated against and received unequal treatment, according to the suit filed Feb. 27.

The teachers are seeking more than $25,000 each for damages and attorney's fees.

Mesfun, who resigned from his post as principal in August 2007 after less than a year in the position, took a principal job in an Oakland school district.

McNerney endorsed by area firefighter unions

The Lodi Professional Firefighters' Association, Stockton Police Officers' Association, the Stockton Professional Firefighters' Association and the San Joaquin County Deputy Sheriffs Association announced their endorsement of Congressman Jerry McNerney's, D-Pleasanton, re-election campaign.

"Congressman McNerney works hard to make sure we have the tools we need to respond to emergencies and save lives. His ability to bring home federal funds for police training equipment is critically important," said Lon Hudson of the Stockton Police Officers' Association in a statement released by the McNerney campaign. "Jerry McNerney listens to us and is a strong voice for us in Washington."

These police officers and firefighters join other law enforcement officials in endorsing McNerney's campaign, including former two former Stockton police chiefs, Ed Chavez and Lucian Neely.