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• Guide dog found safe in Valley Springs

• Local schools reach out to needy students, families every year

• Sandhill Crane Festival soars over weekend

• Public Meetings

February 9th, 2010

• Middle College High School rated one of the best — and a bargain, to boot

• Lodi decathlon boasts top team in county

• Man who sparked counterfeit case pleads guilty

• Local businessman will visit Haiti to look for family

• Man who claimed to be Yosemite Sam pleads guilty to meth charge

• David Harmer seeks Republican congressional nod

• Lack of evidence in case against suspect in 'drug deal' stabbing

• Regional Roundup

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

• Delta College trustees again collide over stipend committee

• Bad bugs, weeds are hot topics at Grape Day

• 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

• Regional Roundup

February 2nd, 2010

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

• Correction

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

• Regional Roundup

• No snow leopards, otters for Micke Grove

• McNerney leads in campaign cash

• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen

• Big rig plows 7 cars

• Jumpers across California

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

• Will terrorists be given Miranda warnings? (75)
• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts (64)
• President Obama's first year (45)
• Many reject the politics of 'no' (45)
• Islamic symbol in mosaic — what is all the fuss? (44)
• Writer comments on Neely column (42)
• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch (41)
• Time to shed the convenient sham of 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy (34)
• We need to conduct respectful conversations (30)
• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam (25)

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With the colors

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brandon Murray takes

On Nov. 12, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brandon Murray will take over command of the USS Gladiator. Murray entered the Navy in 1995 and completed over three years of enlisted service as an operations specialist in USS Fort Fisher in San Diego and USS Vandergrift in Yokosuka, Japan.

In 1998, Murray was commissioned through the Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Fla., and then attended Surface Warfare Officer School in Newport, R.I. His first assignment was in USS Detroit in NWS Earle, N.J., where he served as first division officer. He was then ordered to join the crew of USS Anzio in July 2001, serving as main propulsion assistant and deployed for BALTOPS and JMC 2003.

He recently completed a tour on USS Mahan as engineer officer and deployed to the Baltic Sea, Caribbean and Western Europe as the flagship for Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 Flagship. Murray's shore assignment was at Surface Warfare Officer School in Newport, R.I., filling the Gas Turbine Engineering — Cruiser/Destroyer Lead Instructor and Lead Engineering Scheduler billets.

In June 2005, he earned a master's degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College and a master's degree in international relations from he Salve Regina University.

Murray is a graduate of Tokay High School. He is the son of Garold and Sharon Murray, of Galt, and Darla Watanabe, of San Francisco.