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Live updates: Sacramento cleans up after California storm’s winds pull down trees, cut power [The Sacramento Bee]
Jan. 27 An extreme atmospheric river storm that reached Northern California on Tuesday evening brought extreme wind gusts overnight and is continuing to wreak havoc Wednesday morning in the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada.
Here’s the latest on the storm and its effects on Sacramento and Northern California:
Sacramento begins cleaning up
Fierce, howling southerly winds knocked out power for tens of thousands in the valley, many of whom remain without power. The gusts toppled trees, and the mix of high winds with a half-inch and an inch of rain near the capital contributed to numerous traffic incidents on Sacramento-area highways. Downed power lines and trees also forced extended roadway closures, many of them overnight.
   The Pierz School Board approved the final 2020-21 property tax levy Business Manager Tracey Artner presented to the Board, Wednesday.
   The total final levy was set at $2.286 million, an increase of $46,833.69 (2.09%) from the 2019-20âs total tax levy of $2.239 million. With levy adjustments, the total levy is $2.016 million, an increase of $27,053.82 (1.36%) from the 2019-20âs tax levy of $1.989 million.  Â
   As part of the tax levy resolution, the Board approved that the total final levy of $2,286,006.89, include $1,156,930.04 for the general fund, $59,185.07 for the community service fund and $1,069,891,78.
   Total estimated expenditures for 2020-21 budget was set at $17.855 million with an estimated revenue of $16.295 million.
School board hears lots of comment on COVID and school reopening plans
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During the Dec. 17 school board meeting, the trustees discussed the current COVID-19 situation in Yolo County, as well as the emerging plans for an eventual return to campus at some point in the future, after the health threat from the COVID virus has receded to a sufficient degree.
Leading off the COVID discussion was Dianna Stommel, president of the Davis Teachers Association, who acknowledged that due to the virus-related closure of school campuses, and the switch to distance learning (by teachers giving their lessons online, etc.) the present school year has been “difficult.”
Graham ISD sent a ParentSquare notification yesterday to GISD parents advising that a kindergarten student at Pioneer Elementary was in possession of a handgun and showed it to a friend at school.
Graham Police Chief Brent Bullock said in a release that it was discovered that the six-year-old student found the gun under the seat of his parent s car. After placing it in his backpack, he showed a friend the gun before the start of class Wednesday.
The student who saw the gun notified a teacher and reported it as a toy gun. Graham Police School Resource Officer Corporal Blake Davis received the call at 7:30 a.m. According to the release, there was no evidence or reports of the student pointing the gun or threatening with it.
Preston Elks Lodge prepares to deliver hundreds of Christmas boxes
Misty Inglet, KPVI
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PRESTON (KPVI) The Preston Elks Lodge is helping hundreds of eastern Idaho families put food on the table this holiday season.
For more than 60 years, the Elks Lodge has been putting together Christmas boxes for families in need. What started out as just a handful of boxes – between 10 to 15 – has greatly expanded over the years.
Last year, the Preston Elks Lodge did 760 boxes and expect to do at least 700 again this year.
Each box contains many different food items, like canned foods, macaroni and cheese, packaged milk, and more. The boxes also have hygiene supplies and other household necessities.