The largest school district in Northern California, the Elk Grove Unified School District, canceled classes and sports games through Friday after a family associated with the Elk Grove Unified School District was exposed to the new coronavirus and placed on quarantine to see if they were infected with coronavirus and would get sick. All school activities were… Keep Reading
The old two-story Graham-Rice Furniture building at 1511 J St., home to the Antique Emporium for two decades but sitting empty since December 2015, has been whipped into shape to now help people get and stay fit. Its new tenant is the Tru-Fitness personal training studio, which will have a soft opening within a couple… Keep Reading
Two-year-old Aiden Jones from Turlock wasn’t interested in the county leaders’ speeches at The Book Club Opening Day on Wednesday. Instead, he was enthralled with all the books in the new children’s library in the lobby of the Stanislaus County Health Services Agency on Hackett Road. The goal of the library is to put a book in… Keep Reading
TURLOCK (CBS13) — A man whose last known address is in Turlock and is facing multiple counts of child sexual abuse in Crook County, Oregon, is wanted after failing to appear in court, the Crook County Sheriff’s Office said. William Redhawk Espinoza, 35, is accused of failing to appear in court in Oregon while facing charges… Keep Reading
Scattered along the stretch of Highway 99 between Service Road and downtown Modesto freeway off-ramps is a growing collection of homeless camps –marked by large piles of debris – offering visual blight impossible for motorists to ignore and shaking the heads of Chamber of Commerce folks. One such camp south of the Hatch Road overpass… Keep Reading
The Stanislaus County Office of Education (SCOE), in partnership with the California Department of Education, NAMI California and NAMI Stanislaus will host a National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) High School Training for student leaders and club advisers on Thursday, March 5 at the Martin G. Petersen Event Center, 720 12th St., Modesto. During the… Keep Reading
While Turlock Library will only be open for a couple of weeks in March before closing down for the start of renovations, there are still many activities for readers of all ages to participate in this month. The Turlock Library Book Club will meet at 10:30 a.m. March 4. This month’s selection is “The Husband’s Secret,” by… Keep Reading
Lilly Freitas (150) of Pitman High is a two-time, back-to-back CIF State Champion after she closed out another undefeated season for the Pride this past weekend from Mechanics Bank Arena in Bakersfield where she won out the bracket with five straight pins. “It felt amazing… at first it was like wow; I really just did… Keep Reading
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A Fresno woman who has spent the last month in quarantine is back home with her daughter. Della Metzler was enjoying her vacation with her sister in Japan when a coronavirus outbreak seized their Diamond Princess cruise ship in early February. Her sister, 81-year-old Sally Oberst, was one of the 46… Keep Reading
TURLOCK, Calif. — Turlock’s name is probably the only thing the city doesn’t owe to agriculture for its history. The city, 20 minutes south of Modesto, owes its name to “Bred in the Bone,” a serial novel from Harper’s Weekly Magazine and two brothers struggling to name the town, according to Scott Atherton, historian for the Turlock Historical… Keep Reading
