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SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2020
Hair salons can reopen Monday Other businesses must wait for now SWAT officers stage near the scene of a reported burglary in progress and suspect standoff early Friday morning at Second and I streets.
BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer
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Burglary triggers lengthy standoff BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer A break-in at a Davis wellness center led to an hours-long police standoff that ended early Friday morning with the alleged burglar’s arrest. The chaotic situation began at about 9:20 p.m. Thursday, when the Davis Police Department received a report of a
burglary in progress at 212 I St., which is the offices of Turning Point substance-abuse recovery and mental health services. According to Lt. Art Camacho, an employee of the alarm company alerted police that the security system detected voices inside the building, and “the person inside indicated they would use violence against the police. We believed that he
might be armed.” Officers cordoned off the area and issued a citywide shelter-inplace order via text and email at about 10:40 p.m. A resident of the neighborhood told The Enterprise that several law-enforcement vehicles formed a perimeter outside the building, with officers using a loudspeaker to order anyone inside to “come out with your
hands up” and “you are surrounded.” SWAT and Yolo County Bomb Squad personnel also responded to the scene while a law-enforcement helicopter circled over the building. West Sacramento police assisted during the incident as well. Camacho said negotiations
Hair salons and barbershops in Yolo County will be able to resume indoor services beginning Monday, but other business reopenings are at least a couple of weeks away. That was the upshot of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement on Friday introducing what he called a new blueprint for safely reopening the state’s economy. “We’ve learned a lot over the last number of months on how this virus spreads,” Newsom said. And now, he said, “We want to make adjustments based upon the input we’ve received from county health officers, input we’ve received from experts, our own experience here in California.” That includes permission given for hair salons and barbershops throughout the state to resume indoor services beginning Monday provided the health officer in that county gives the OK.
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It’s back-to-school time, pandemic style
UCD ‘ambassadors’ will help with virus
BY JEFF HUDSON
BY CALEB HAMPTON
Enterprise staff writer School-age students began the 2020-21 academic year in the local public schools last Wednesday — but the clusters of kids didn’t greet their teachers in the usual classrooms at established campuses. Instead, owing to the ongoing health concerns prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, the new academic year was launched with teachers providing students with instruction online, via an approach known as distance learning. By now, Davis schoolteachers have developed some familiarity with the approach. Like other school districts up and down
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the state, the Davis school district quickly adopted the distance-learning approach during the final portions of the 2019-20 school year last spring, when it became clear that health concerns ruled out a swift return to traditional inclassroom instruction. Then, over the summer, the district revamped and finetuned its distance learning strategy, as the school district held a variety of training sessions focusing on effective teaching strategies for distance learning. Davis superintendent John Bowes told The Enterprise on Friday that he was pleased with what he’s seen thus far. “Last Wednesday, I had the chance to
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Veteran teacher Frank Thomsen, who has been on the faculty at Holmes Junior High for some years, was among the hundreds of teachers across the Davis school district who were instructing their students online. visit every school campus on the first day of school, and was able to check in with principals and front office staff,” Bowes said. “And I saw many of our
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Over the past few weeks, UC Davis has rolled out plans for reopening campus this fall in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. While most classes will be held remotely, several thousand people are expected to be living, working and studying on campus. UC Davis leaders have outlined extensive precautions. Last week, the campus announced an ambitious plan to screen all on-campus residents for COVID-19 at least once per week. Residence hall rooms will be single occupancy and no guests will be permitted. Before entering campus facilities, everyone will be required to
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