Yolo County Bulletin Board

Yolo Earth Day Celebrate and Share Event at the Library

Saturday April 13 10am to 12:30pm at Yolo County Stephens Branch Library in Davis

Davisville for 5:30pm on Apr 8th, 2024

the rest of my Saturday, from USC to DTLA

After the day at the Natural History Museum, the sun was starting to think about setting. It was a nice evening in South Central LA, around Exposition Park, and some fans were starting to arrive f...

mammal bones at the NHM-LA

I drew more than dinosaurs at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum.  I explored as much of the place as I could (I was there all day after all, I wasn't going anywhere) but when I saw the big ma...

Cherry Blossom Fest celebrates hope, art

From the Bay to the River: Greater Sacramento is ready for Major League Baseball

In a historic announcement that reverberates beyond the sports world, the Oakland Athletics have chosen West Sacramento’s Sutter Health Park as their home for the 2025-27 Major League Baseball (ML...

David Sander (City of Rancho Cordova)

David Sander is the mayor of Rancho Cordova and a member of GSEC's Board of Directors. Learn more about why he values economic development, working with GSEC and living and working in the Greater ...

Dinosaurs at the LA Natural History Museum

Part of the reason for taking a weekend in Los Angeles before the conference in Riverside is that I just really wanted to draw dinosaurs. I'd never been to the LA Natural History Museum before, bu...

Earth Month Goings On 2024

Earth Month April 2023

Free Virtual Screening: “Carbon: The Unauthorized Biography”

Cool Davis has partnered with the One Earth Film Festival based in Chicago to offer free tickets to our community to a global online screening and discussion program of "Carbon: The Unauthorized B...

Climate Change May Lead to More Cases of Valley Fever

Cameron Kiongo is a Sacramento Valley College Corp Fellow with Cool Davis and a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Biochecmistry and Molecular Biology. Cameron is from the Moreno Valley...

Standing Together and Sharing the Future

Editor’s note: Thank you to NJ Mvondo and Robin Datel, Yolo County Climate Action Commissioners, for collaborating on this article and working with Cool Davis towards a climate resilient region wh...

the scum and villainy cantina

I arrived in downtown Los Angeles after dark, checked into my very nice hotel and nearly decided not to head out to Hollywood because it was already past dinnertime. But how often am I down this w...

Three Davis Farmers Market vendors featured in new Food Network show

Six Davis restaurants are featured in the premiere of Food Network’s newest series “Best Bite in Town,” which airs Sunday, April 7 at 10 p.m. Three of those restaurants are vendors at the Davis Fa...

Climate Change Affects the Availability and Quality of Food and Water in Yolo County

Wendy Zhong is a Sacramento Valley College Corp Fellow with Cool Davis and a third-year undergraduate student majoring in Food Science at UC Davis. Wendy is from Oakland, California, where she dev...

Coping with Climate Anxiety through Action

By Patricia M. Moore, M.A., re-published with permission, see original post on the 350 Sacramento website. Part 2: Coping with Climate Anxiety through Action In Part 1 of this series, we discussed...

Yolo Earth Day Pledgers Make Good Progress, Not Finished Yet

Jessie pledged to … Encourage 1x month at least 1 person to ride a bike, bus, or walk Reduce air travel emissions Pre-cool my home during summer to avoid peak usage and rates Eat a meatless meal 3...

Stand Together on Big Day of Giving May 2

Big Day of Giving is one of the biggest fundraising events of the year. It's also a time to celebrate our partnerships and collaboration with other non-profits in our region.  We hope you'll go al...

pause at the airport

I've been travel-busy lately, so let's start posting some sketches. I was at Sacramento airport, waiting for a delayed Friday early evening flight down to Los Angeles, where I'd be spending the we...

Davisville for 5:30pm on Mar 25th, 2024

Davisville for 5:30pm on Apr 1st, 2024

Davisville, April 1, 2024: A year later, less panic about chatbots

In winter 2023 we talked with Andy Jones and Margaret Merrill of UC Davis about ChatGPT, a new artificial-intelligence app that was setting off alarms for its advanced ability to "write" reports a...

Arbor Day Tree Planting and Festival Hosted by Tree Davis

What does it take to make sure that trees thrive in Davis? Tree lovers of all ages are encouraged to join the City of Davis, Tree Davis, the Davis Manor Neighborhood Association and Creative Actio...

Meet the “Climate Restorers” at Sunrise Rotary Screening

Ready for some good news about the climate? The Davis Sunrise Rotary Club Environment Committee is hosting a pre-release screening of the documentary film The Climate Restorers – Leading the Way B...

look who’s in Sactown

Here is some exciting news! The current edition of Sactown magazine (March/April 2024) features a whole load of my sketches from Sacramento and Davis, going back from 2007 up to 2023. The feature ...

to rest my eyes in shades of green

I sketched this in my small Fabriano sketchbook, I really like using that one, especially with pencil. I have a larger one I might start using at some point. This is that bridge in the Arboretum t...

Davisville for 5:30pm on Mar 18th, 2024

Davisville, March 18, 2024: Secret Spot creates a new home for the creatively weird in Davis

Today’s Davisville is a story about the new — and about getting started in Davis, as well as art, life after the pandemic, ambition, and the weird. We talk with Toni Rizzo and Harry Greer, who alo...

Golden 1 Center Serves as Major Economic Driver in Greater Sacramento, Providing $665 Million Annually

Golden 1 Center, home to the NBA's Sacramento Kings and a community hub for major events, concerts and shows, continues to stand as a powerhouse contributor to the economic vitality of the Greater...

chemistry latest, almost nearly there

The latest chapter in the construction of the new extension on the UC Davis Chemistry Building, it's nearly ready. I was going to hold off on sketching it until it was all done, but the light was ...

"Open Country' screening to benefit KDRT

Yolo election results: So far, Davis schools tax is winning by a few dozen votes

Startup Elk Grove

engagED voices feature key initiatives in the region to educate community members about the developments and critical work underway in our region. For this month’s feature, we talked with the City...

armadillo music

Another two-page spread, though I didn't reach the edge of the right-hand page. I went downtown right after work that day and the light was so nice that I decided to do a sketch, and decided to dr...

Davisville, March 4, 2024: DMA looks into creating a new information source for Davis and Yolo

Finding information and news about Davis is harder than it should be. The Enterprise still prints and posts local stories, but lacks the scope and heft it had before the rise of internet technolog...

positively tired on fourth street

More sketching downtown on the last weekend in February. This was done on 4th Street, and I guess I've drawn this panorama before several years ago, just from a little bit further down. This was d...

the very hart of campus

Last weekend we held another meet-up of local sketchers as part of the monthly ‘Let's Draw Davis' sketchcrawls, this time in the very heart of the UC Davis campus, meeting up outside the imm...

New Used EV Rebate Higher for Lower-Income Households

With spring blossoms peeking through, exciting incentives for electric vehicles (EVs) are now available, including a new rebate for up to $4,000 from PG&E for used EVs. Driving an EV is now more a...

a familiar sight, slightly different height

Today is a Leap Day, isn't it. It's always exciting to have an extra day in February, but this February has felt longer than most other months so that extra day feels like a day too far. It's a lo...

Making a Plan to Replace Zinsco Electrical Panels

The Covell Commons Homeowner’s Association alerted resident members last year they would need to replace their Zinsco electrical panels by May 1, 2024, due to pressure from their insurance company...