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• More Lodi homes selling — but prices remain stagnant

• Lodi students go back to school, but bigger classes are common because of ongoing deficit

• Regional Roundup

• Suspect in woman's death arrested near Tower Park

February 8th, 2010

• Public Meetings

• Locals pick best, most memorable Super Bowl commercials

• Regional Roundup

February 6th, 2010

• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch

• Meet Larry, Curly and Moe

• Baboon business

• Regional Roundup

• Several Lodi venues let you watch the Super Bowl in style

• Lodi Library celebrates 100 years of serving the community

• Culinary craft

February 5th, 2010

• Kids, teachers help Haiti by collecting pennies for Learning Link

• Lodi, Galt students reach out to help Haiti earthquake survivors

• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam

• Hours of sweat and work go into putting on crab feeds

• Things looking up for state's real estate

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Stray bullet strikes Lodi home; police suspect gang activity may be factor

February 4th, 2010

• Managers at Geweke Toyota answer questions about recall

• Lodi City Council votes to replace play structure at Century Park

• Lodi extends ban on pot shops for another year

• Mokelumne River triathlon set for June

• Family, friends to run half-marathon in memory of Galt family

February 3rd, 2010

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Delta College trustees again collide over stipend committee

• Lodi-area senators Dave Cox, Lois Wolk admit to gifts; Tom Berryhill case pending

• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts

• Galt City Council avoids budget cuts — for now

• New Lodi Memorial Hospital emergency room opens to the public without a hitch

• Bad bugs, weeds are hot topics at Grape Day

February 2nd, 2010

• Big rig plows 7 cars

• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future

• Former Lodian Erica Davis is first paraplegic woman to summit Kilimanjaro

• Jumpers across California

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• No snow leopards, otters for Micke Grove

• McNerney leads in campaign cash

• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen

February 1st, 2010

• Find cuddly alpacas not too far from Lodi

• Public Meetings

• Patients can expect faster, better service when Lodi Memorial Hospital's new emergency room opens

• Man killed by Amtrak train in Lodi

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• Will terrorists be given Miranda warnings? (72)
• President Obama's first year (67)
• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts (64)
• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future (60)
• Islamic symbol in mosaic — what is all the fuss? (49)
• Writer comments on Neely column (42)
• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch (41)
• Many reject the politics of 'no' (41)
• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen (31)
• Time to shed the convenient sham of 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy (31)

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Fourth of July boat races

I keep getting asked what happened to the July 4 boat races? Looking out our front window on the Fourth, I noticed a few people at the pancake breakfast, very quiet around the lake until around 4 p.m.

This year should have been the 61st annual event. Lodi was the oldest annual boat race regatta in the USA. Northern California Outboard Association, also the oldest outboard racing club in the USA, was forced to move the July 4 races to Marysville in 2003. It is still held there today and includes the fireworks! Isn't that curious? Marysville with a lake similar in size and in the middle of town!

Bob Johnson and Ron Williamson forced us off July 4, then raised the prices so high the club was forced to leave town after 55 annual events. A friend told me their wives didn't like the noise.

Lodi News-Sentinel clippings state from 10,000 to 20,000 fans attended each July 4 regatta, free! The club is a nonprofit organization and the drivers sponsor themselves.

They want to have a boat race on another date but it will cost the club $10,000 to race at Lodi Lake. (Sounds like what I went through when I was promoting the races.)

Casey Parsons
Lodi