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Despite lack of progress for Yolo County, reopening still just two weeks away By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Yolo County failed to meet the metrics needed for the least-restrictive yellow tier in the state’s colorcoded COVID-19 blueprint this week and will remain in the orange tier until June 15, when all COVID19 restrictions on businesses and activities are expected to be lifted statewide. By then, the county will have spent nearly three months in the orange tier, where virus activity is considered moderate but capacity restrictions are still in place. For the second week in a row, Yolo County met two of the three yellow tier metrics — adjusted case rate and countywide test posi-
tivity rate — but exceeded the health equity quartile metric, which measures test positivity in the county’s most disadvantaged communities. Overall the county’s numbers differed very little from the previous week. The adjusted case rate reported by the state on Tuesday was 1.6 per 100,000 residents — the same as the week prior — and the countywide test positivity rate rose slightly from 0.3 percent to 0.4 percent. The health equity quartile rate improved from 2.7 percent to 2.4 percent but still exceeds the 2 percent threshold for the yellow tier. Several other counties made the move to yellow
this week, including Marin, Monterey and Ventura. Statewide, 19 counties are in the yellow tier and 35 in orange. All of Yolo County’s neighbors are now orange, with Sacramento and Solano finally making the move from the red tier this week.
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Yolo County has four COVID-19 vaccine clinics scheduled for this week. Two are in Woodland, one in Clarksburg and the fourth in Esparto. Three of the four are open to the public with no appointments needed. n Thursday, June 3: a first-dose, drive-thru clinic
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Yolo County will remain in the orange tier until June 15 when the state eliminates its color-coded, tier-based system governing what activities are allowed throughout the state.
Yolo DA won’t seek death penalty in infanticide case By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer WOODLAND — The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office filed court documents Thursday saying prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against a former Yolo County man accused of killing his five infant children. Paul Allen Perez, 59, was ordered last month to stand trial on multiple first-degree murder charges with special circumstances in connection with the deaths of his four sons and one daughter, who prosecutors say were brutally abused and killed between 1992 and 2001. The remains of one infant boy were found in Yolo County in 2007. If convicted, Perez faces life in prison without the possibility of parole. Attorneys in the case are scheduled to appear Tuesday in Yolo Superior Court to set a trial date. Linked by DNA to one of the allegedly slain children, Perez was just days away from release from state prison after serving time for a Yolo County vehicle
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theft and evading conviction when he was arrested in the current case in January 2020. The investigation began years earlier, in 2007, with a fisherman’s discovery of a weighted-down metal cooler in Conway Slough near Woodland. Inside were the remains of an infant believed to be less than 6 months old when he suffered blunt-force trauma and died, coroner’s officials said. Later in 2007, Yolo County coroner’s officials turned over the femur bones from the infant — then known as Baby Doe — to the California Department of Justice’s Richmond lab for DNA testing. But a break in the case didn’t come until August 2018, when the DOJ made a familial match that identified the biological father as Perez. From there, investigators looked for birth records connected to Perez, ultimately finding six children fathered with his second wife, Yolanda: Brittany, born in 1990;
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Tristan Samalley of Davis Boy Scout Troop 66 places a flag at the grave of a fallen World War II veteran Friday, in honor of Memorial Day.
Dodd releases fire-safe legislative, budget package SACRAMENTO — State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, and members of the Senate Wildfire Working Group have unveiled a comprehensive legislative and budget package to address a growing wildfire crisis in California that has taken life and property with an average of 1.6 million acres burned each year. “The escalating frequency and devastation caused by wildfires across our state and in my district demands that we seek out
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reducing combustible fuels, creating fire breaks, expanding prescribed burning and enhancing our firefighting forces. All the bills are up for a Senate vote over the next week. These actions build on legislation passed in recent years and a record $2 billion investment in wildfire and emergency preparedness in this year’s budget. Included in the blueprint are two of Dodd’s bills: Senate Bill 109, which would create the Wildfire Technology
Research and Development Office to harness innovation to prevent and control wildfires. Also, the package includes my SB 332 to expand the use of prescribed burning. The Wildfire Working Group is co-chaired by State Sens. Mike McGuire and Susan Rubio, and includes State Sens. Dodd, Henry Stern, Ben Allen, Monique Limón and Nancy Skinner as its members.
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