Yolo County Voices

May the Porsche be with you

I saw this beauty down on 2nd Street in Davis, opposite the Varsity. Lovely Porsche. I don't know the model, I assumed it was a Carrera, a 911 maybe. I should be like an expert on these things, bu...

Welcome to New Board Member Vishal Mehta

Vishal Mehta is an earth systems scientist who recently started his own small environmental consultancy in Davis. Previously, he was a Senior Scientist with the Stockholm Environment Institute’s W...

Davisville for 5:30pm on May 13th, 2024

Davisville, May 13, 2024: Founding DJ for vanished Davis station in the ’70s, then an astronaut, now KDRT: Steve Robinson comes full circle

Long before he flew four missions on the space shuttle, Steve Robinson was the first DJ of a now-vanished Davis commercial radio station, KYLO, in the late 1970s. Decades later, he’s a professor o...

the downtown aprils

Here are a few downtown sketches from recently, I have more but why drop them all at once, this isn't Netflix. Still you get four here, so that feels like dropping a mini-series and then dropping ...

a block of second street

After Spring Break, the Spring Quarter began, another busy time but at least it wasn't Winter Quarter. In my Quest To Draw Every Inch of Davis (not a real quest) I decided to go down to 2nd Street...

Statement on Local Media from Davis Media Access

24 hours in Vegas

At the end of the Utah trip, we spent the night in Las Vegas. We stayed at the Venetian - well, the Palazzo, the equally fancy and lavish massive hotel next door. It was very very nice. Our room w...

Pardon Our Dust, It's a Remodel

By Autumn Labbe-Renault , Executive Director

Kolob Canyons

It turns out the next national park we would visit was actually Zion again, but a completely different (almost completely separate) part of the park called Kolob Canyons. We were on the long long ...

Davisville for 5:30pm on May 6th, 2024

Bryce Canyon

It was a fairly long drive across southern Utah from Zion to Bryce Canyon National Park, most of which was filled with bluish grey scenery with mysterious mountain backdrops, until we passed throu...

Zion (part 2)

After our day one post-hiking rest at the hotel, we walked down to Zion Village to have dinner at the pub-restaurant there. We had to wait a while for the table, which = more sketching time. I sat...

Donald Terry (Bank of the Sierra)

Donald Terry is the Senior Vice-President & Community Development Officer for Bank of the Sierra and a member of GSEC's Board of Directors. Learn more about why he values economic development, wor...

Zion National Park (part 1)

For Spring Break this year we took another trip to southern Utah, to visit some of the beautiful national parks down there. In 2021 we had been to Arches and Canyonlands, staying in Moab after a v...

Plan A Family-Friendly Getaway in Yolo County

The summer travel season will be here before you know it, so now is the time to start thinking about the perfect destination. For those with kids in tow, planning [...]

Picnic in the Park returns: May through September

The music, food and family fun of Picnic in the Park returns to the Davis Farmers Market on May 1. The popular event is every Wednesday from 4 to 8 p.m., May through September. A local band plays ...

Davisville for 5:30pm on Apr 29th, 2024

Davisville, April 29, 2024: Capitol Corridor’s plans include underpass from Olive Drive to Davis station, more trains

The Capitol Corridor trains that connect Davis with the Bay Area and Sacramento are evolving as the service recovers from the pandemic. The corridor is adding passenger cars and resuming a full we...

as sure as eggs is eggs

Before I show you all my Utah sketches, I'm fast forwarding to this month, which was the 30th anniversary of the installation of the Eggheads by UC Davis professor and renowned sculptor, Robert Ar...