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SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2023
School-board meeting centers on choir director
Court denies Marsh appeal again
By Aaron Geerts
Enterprise staff writer
By Lauren Keene
Larson said students are taxed with all of their responsibilities and yet continue to hold Friday For Future gatherings; Vaitla committed to an ongoing conversation with
A California appellate court has rejected Davis killer Daniel Marsh’s petition for sentencing relief, ruling for a second time that a MARSH 2019 state Bid to law resentence regarding rejected juvenile offenders doesn’t apply to his double-homicide case. The Third District Court of Appeal issued its written opinion Friday, a week after hearing oral arguments from Marsh’s appellate attorney and the state Attorney General’s Office. “We are all very relieved that the the Court of Appeal has, once again, ruled in favor of upholding the trial conviction,” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said. “We are hopeful that this case will someday be truly and finally resolved for the
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Enterprise staff writer A tense school-board meeting Thursday was dominated by public comment around the fate of the Davis High Jazz Choir director, Amanda Bistolfo. As the meeting began, board Vice President Betsy Hyder stated, “The board moved to approve Resolution 2623 in closed session with three members voting ‘aye’ and two members voting ‘no.’ The board moved to approve Resolution 4723 in closed session with five members voting ‘aye.’” The meeting agenda listed closed-session items on “discussion and possible action ... for personnel employment/status/ actions” and “public employee discipline/ dismissal/release,” referencing California Government Code 54957, which governs public notice before any disciplinary action taken against public employees. It came to the attention
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Climate activists gather in a circle Friday at Central Park in Davis as part of the local climate strike.
Climate strike hits close to home By Monica Stark
and Bapu Vaitla.
Enterprise staff writer
“We're on a clock now. We have six years. We have to get to zero emissions by 2029 for a livable Earth in 20 years, so we're demanding the end of fossil financing with our local leaders,” said 16-year-old Eliot Larson.
A youth-led climate march took over B Street on Friday as part of the Global Climate Strike organized by chapters of Future for Fridays worldwide. About 25 Davis High School students walked out of class during lunchtime to join the movement, which ended at Central Park with a die-in, open mic, live music, and a roundtable with Davis City Councilmembers Gloria Partida
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A continuation of the 2019 global strike, inspired by Greta Thunberg of Sweden, organizers of the March 3 Davis event gave demand letters to each of the council members.
At the roundtable, Partida and Vaitla encouraged the youth to speak at the Davis City Council public comment, but students and some parents felt that was beyond the call of duty.
Sour note as Armadillo Music hit by flooding
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rmadillo Music has been closed since Feb. 24 when a drainpipe burst, spilling stormwater into the store and onto lots of valuable records, CDs, equipment and memorabilia. Armadillo owner Josh Chapman, vice mayor on the Davis City Council, said his employee showed up at around 9 a.m. last Friday to find nearly 2 inches of water on the floor. They estimate the leak started around 3 a.m. The store specializes in new and used records, CDs, DVDs, cassette tapes, books and other music
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merchandise. “We lost a pretty significant amount of records, three different genres of CDs, turntables …” Chapman said. Some of it is irreplaceable, like original Beatles posters, and a framed collage of Katy Perry memorabilia from a customer who was
WEATHER Today: Showers likely all day. High 52. Low 37.
in Perry’s band. Armadillo Music is at 207 F St. in the Brinley Building, which was built in 1963. The pipe that did the damage comes into the store from the roof, runs along a back wall above the stairs, then goes back into the wall about 20 feet away. He hopes when repairs are done, that can all be rerouted to the building’s exterior. “Along the stairs, half of that was all coming off,”
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Fans get to work on drying off Armadillo Music on Thursday. The store sustained damage along the right wall and flooding throughout when a water pipe leaked on Feb. 24.
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