With Diversity Awareness Month in full swing in Elk Grove, Mayor Steve Ly and three of the city’s council members this week shared their feelings on Elk Grove’s rich diversity. The city’s annual celebration of the community will culminate with the Elk Grove Multicultural Festival on Saturday…

Three seats on the Cosumnes Community Services District (CSD) board are up for election next year, and the board must decide who among nearly 190,000 Elk Grove, Galt, and Franklin residents will get to vote for which seat.

More than 30 neighborhood parties were held across Elk Grove on Aug. 6 during the annual National Night Out – an event that invites residents to know their neighbors and to casually meet law enforcement officers and firefighters.

The city of Elk Grove’s newly formed Diversity and Inclusion Commission is working toward moving beyond the more limited efforts of its predecessor, the Elk Grove Multicultural Committee.

By Lance Armstrong

The Elk Grove police on Aug. 7 arrested a 30-year-old man who was wanted for murder in Livermore. They reportedly found him driving through Elk Grove by using a new technology that tracked him down via video feeds from traffic cameras.

Elk Grove’s next police chief is a captain who has served in the city’s police force since the day it was formed 13 years ago.

A group of Elk Grove and Sacramento faith leaders gathered on Aug. 4 around a table at the Fo Guang Shan Bodhi Buddhist temple on Calvine Road.

The Elk Grove Planning Commission on Aug. 1 supported a rezoning of a 3-acre property for 21 single-family homes at 8965 Brown Road, east of Elk Grove-Florin Road and south of Calvine Road.

As a result of a two-day canned food drive at the California State Fair, the Elk Grove Food Bank has an additional 30,000 pounds of food on its shelves.

State wildlife authorities announced on Aug. 5 they seized more than 15,000 marijuana plants that were illegally grown at the Cosumnes River Preserve, south of Elk Grove, last month.