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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

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• 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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Lodi Flames light up Downey, Davis knocks out Tokay Tigers in boys water polo

The Flames have a shot at revenge. The Lodi High boys water polo team dominated Downey 18-5 in the first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs on Saturday at Johansen High School, setting up a rematch with Fairfield.

The Falcons eliminated the Flames in the quarterfinals of last year's playoffs 7-5 and also edged Lodi by one goal in a match earlier this season at Fairfield.

Now the Flames get to battle them in Lodi as the two teams will play at 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

Tokay High was also in action in Saturday's playoffs, but lost 19-3 to Davis, a team favored to win the section title.

Against Downey, Lodi took a 3-0 lead at the end of the first quarter and practically put the match away by going up 9-1 at half.

"It took us a little bit to get going, but once we got going, we did fine," Lodi head coach Robert Elrod said.

Lodi freshman Joe VanderLans played a huge part in the Flames' offensive explosion. He recorded a team-high six assists and scored three goals of his own as he was in on half of Lodi's goals. Jake Lear scored six times for Lodi, while Chris Orgon netted five goals, Allen Daniels scored two and Jake Dodd and Mitch Thomas each scored one.

Lodi goalie Daniel Shuler made five saves in the game before Andrew Watts entered the game in the fourth quarter and made one save and recorded two steals. Watts and Thomas moved up from Lodi's frosh-soph team to play for the Flames in the playoffs.

Fairfield upset Golden Valley on Saturday to set up Wednesday's rematch. The winner will advance to the semifinals at Tokay High at 2 p.m. on Friday

The Tokay boys were led by Danny Kemether with two goals and Cole Mahoney added the Tigers' other score. The loss ended the season for Tokay, which finished second in the Tri-City Athletic League this season.

The Tokay girls will take the pool in quarterfinal action on Wednesday in their home pool to face Vintage at 9 a.m. A win would put the Tigers in the semifinals for the first time in school history.