After Mayor Alan Nakanishi welcomed Chief Tod Patterson and Capt. David Griffin of the Lodi Police Department to Monday evening’s town hall meeting on this year’s crime statistics in Carnegie Forum, City Manager Steve Schwabauer took a moment to thank the department for its continued service.

A planned estate sale in Lodi containing a vast collection of local historical items has been called off after it was discovered on Thursday that many items had been stolen the night before. The living estate sale of local historian Ralph Lea was scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at his property on North Locust Tree Road, where Lea had accumulated a massive repository of historic mementos and documents.

Lodian Ron Portal on Tuesday received a call from someone claiming to work for the San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters, he said, who told him that there was a mistake in the wording for Proposition 6 — which would require voter approval for certain fuel taxes and vehicle fees — on the sample ballot.

The Galt Joint Union High School District Board of Trustees on Tuesday voted 5-0 to approve the use of dogs to detect contraband such as drugs, alcohol and weapons at the district’s high schools.

The Galt Joint Union High School District Board of Trustees on Tuesday voted 5-0 to approve the use of dogs to detect contraband such as drugs, alcohol and weapons at the district’s high schools.

Approximately 500 vendors gathered in Downtown Lodi on Sunday for the Lodi Street Faire, which Elisa Bubak, director of communications for the Lodi Chamber of Commerce, said was busy from noon until the end.

Although the Lodi Public Library Foundation on Monday was still making a final count of all the money raised through ticket sales, raffles and a silent auction from the 18th annual Evening at the Library fundraiser held Saturday night, the “Mark Twain’s Golden Bucket Challenge” alone raised approximately $11,500.

In the front yards of some homes on South Sunset Drive in Lodi are signs reading “neighborhoods are for neighbors, not vacation rentals,” which Sally Skelton said were made in response to problems she and her neighbors have experienced from Airbnb vacation rental homes such as the one next door to her house.

Some time between 2:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Friday, the Lodi Fire Department received a report of a fire at an abandoned building at 20 N. Main St., Lodi.