La Grange News

WHEN: Sunday, 7 p.m. WHERE: Gallo Center for the Arts, Foster Theater, 1000 I St.

By unanimous vote, the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday: * Accepted a $374,000 state off-highway vehicle grant, keeping services intact at two hilly parks popular with off-roaders, one near La Grange in east Stanislaus County and at Frank Raines Regional Park in the Diablo Range, 17 miles west of Patterson.

A former police officer-in-training escaped a prison sentence for driving drunk and killing his passenger in a rollover accident after the parents of his victim begged a judge for leniency Monday in Stanislaus County Superior Court.

Five school districts in Stanislaus County have been given a stern warning by the office of education to make deep cuts in their upcoming budgets or someone else will do it for them.

Modesto City Schools and Sylvan Union School District have been put on notice that their finances are seriously out of balance and need to be adjusted, likely leading to deeper budget cuts in the next school year.

It's been said that life is in the blood. In La Grange, the veins of this town for the first hundred years were filled with gold.

Slash and John Mayer turned ZZ Top 's Friday night show in Hollywood into a star-studded affair when the two modern guitar greats joined the Texas trio onstage.

What do you think of the new law which bans texting and driving, effective Jan. 1? Despena Saramadis, La Grange, University of Chicago student: "It really is a good idea.

The ninth annual Mother Lode VW Show and Swap Meet on Saturday drew people and cars from throughout California, as well as at least one competitor from Nevada.

PRAISE HIM WITH DANCE When: Sunday, 7 p.m. Info: In a performance sponsored by St.

It's time for the La Grange Odd Fellows' second annual catfish dinner fundraiser.

Next year Californians once again may be asked to go to the polls to do the job traditionally reserved for lawmakers; but this time it would be to create the biggest overhaul to state government in more than a century.

There's fun in the sun at Lake Don Pedro, where the water level is higher than it has been in three years.

WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: Academic Foundation for International Cultural Exchange, 1016 Shadow Ridge Drive INFO: AFICE is looking for people who would like to host a foreign exchange student.

The movement to rewrite California's Constitution is coming to Thousand Oaks. Repair California, the organization working toward placing a ballot measure on the 2010 ballot asking voters to convene the state's first constitutional convention in more than a century, announced Wednesday that it will conduct a town hall forum.

Rundown parks might be the first thing people notice if Stanislaus County leaders follow the advice of their money experts.

More than 40 people and 20 canoes on Wednesday traveled down an eight-mile stretch of the Lower Tuolumne River.