The Monterey Trail Mustangs defeated the Oak Ridge Trojans 48-20 to advance to the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section D-1 football finals vs. Folsom on Sat. Dec. 1. Monterey Trail's Jehiel Badgett ran for four touchdowns on 26 carries and 223 yards. Quarterback Zach Larrier ran...
Updated with new information and TV scheduling on Tues. Nov. 20, 2018 by Will James Hometown Sports The 2018 high school football season concludes with the CIF State Championship Games on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. But before the final curtains are raised, and finishing...
The #2-ranked Monterey Trail Mustangs continued their season-long win streak topping the #7 Pitman Pride 63-7 to advance to the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section D-1 football semi-finals next week. Coach T.J. Ewing's Mustangs were down 7-0 before scoring 63 straight points and...
by Will James Hometown Sports The CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Football Championships resume Friday in Quarter-Final Round Playoff action when the #7 seed Pitman (Turlock) Pride visit the #2 seed Monterey Trail Mustangs in a Division-1 bout live on Access Sacramento's...
In a battle of running games, the Sheldon Huskies defeated the Modesto Panthers 27-14 in the opening round of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section D-1 football playoffs on Access Sacramento's Hometown Sports Game of the Week. Sheldon running back Tyrell Smith ran for three...
Modesto Panthers vs. Sheldon Huskies by Will James Hometown Sports The second season has arrived. It's the post-season, and playoff time for high school football in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section. The expectations are high and the field of teams is daunting, certainly...
The Sheldon Huskies defeated the Franklin Wildcats 49-0 to conclude an undefeated 6-0 Delta League run as the regular CIF Sac-Joaquin Section season wrapped up on Access Sacramento's Hometown Sports Game of the Week. Sheldon's defense converted three Franklin...
by Will James Hometown Sports Regular-season high school football action in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section concludes this week as contending teams vying for a post-season playoff berth are going to the whip as they charge down the home stretch. Such urgency will not be...
The Elk Grove Thundering Herd scored 20 fourth quarter points in a come from behind Delta League match up topping the Cosumnes Oaks Wolfpack 27-17 to set up a possible playoff berth. Elk Grove scored first on quarterback Carter Harris' final one-yard keeper after...
by Will James Hometown Sports With the arrival of Week-9 of the high school football season, all contending teams hopeful of securing a post-season berth, now place extreme urgency toward notching victories that would afford them a better chance of reaching the...
LISTEN UP
This Wednesday May 30 on Access Sacramento's Live Wire show, host Ray Tatar interviews the director of the most recent theatrical production by "The Forgotten Theatre Company" and we enjoy four of the stars in a scene from their latest show. Tune in Wed. May 30 at 5pm...
This week on LiveWire Host Ray Tatar presents the International Kids Festival and Access Sacramento's High School Public Service Announcement (PSA) Contest Winners. Tune in Wed. May 23 at 5pm on Access Sacramento's channel 17. Looking for a fun way to spend the...
Musical Youth- Part 1 Listen Up! Sacramento has featured many young musicians over the years. These creative and musically talented kids have often been seen performing at the Jammies and Skip’s Stairway to Stardom. Most of them have now grown up and gone off to...
“Fo’Shang’s Thang” on Listen Up! Sacramento Listen Up! Sacramento presents “Fo’Shang’s Thang” with Poet, Vincent Kobelt. We introduced you to Fo’Shang a couple years ago and they’re back with a new line up and neo- poetic style. The band includes Poet, Vincent Kobelt...
“Amiah” Listen Up! Sacramento is happy to present Amiah. She is a young lady with an amazing voice that may make you think you’re listening to a seasoned performer. At the young age of 9 she began her singing career and now, at age 13 she performs for Listen Up!...
“The Hey Nows!” on Listen Up! Sacramento Listen Up! Sacramento is happy to present “The Hey Nows!”. The group is comprised of a handful of local multi-talented musicians lead by Lee Milhous and Roger Trott. Their style is a bit of southern rock, classic rock, and a...
Brian Rogers This week Listen Up! Sacramento is happy to present Brian Rogers. He is a one man band in best way possible. No harmonicas taped to bass drums are mounted on his shoulders. Brian uses the ‘loop’ system on his electronic device and creates an awesome...
Storytellers Part 2 Listen Up! Sacramento has created medley programs featuring many of our past guests. This episode features some of our favorite local storytellers. Guests on this episode include...
Flashback #20 Get ready to go back to the early 90’s with Listen Up! Sacramento. We’ve compiled several great performances from the Oak Park Concert Series that originally aired in 1990 and 1991. Performances include John Heartsman and his blues band (1991), Pancho...
Xochitl Listen Up! Sacramento proudly brings you “Xochitl”. She is a local guitarist and songwriter who recently traveled the country to return and perform just for you on Listen Up. She has an honest and lovely personality and brings that to her music. She plays...
LIVE WIRE
Host Ray Tatar has another great series of interviews lined up for Wed. July 17 with two great guests:the production, "Inner Vision" and nonprofit G.A.P. G.A.P. - Which stands for (Gang Awareness Prevention) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting at-risk...
Host Ray Tatar returns into the studio to interview two nonprofits organizations Meals on Wheels and the Wake Up Foundation. Meals on Wheels - Serving over 2000 seniors, Meals on Wheels, assists seniors in their homes and community by providing nutritious meals,...
LiveWire this week is not live, but is a special recorded show for you. GRAS - Jan Spencer and David Baker will be joining host Ray Tatar to talk about the upcoming event Creating Green and Resilient Homes and Neighborhoods. Jan comes all the way from Eugene Oregon...
I do love nothing in the world so well as Live Wire - is not that strange? We don't think it is strange at all for the Shakespeare Festival is joining us in the TV studio. To continue with all this literary joy, we are having Reading Partners Sacramento and young...
Elk Grove Food Bank: Run 4 Hunger - The 15th Annual Run 4 Hunger Event supporting the Elk Grove food bank. The food bank supports the local community by providing resources and access to food to help fill the gaps and needs of the community. The Run 4 Hunger event is...
Building Healthy Communities (BHC) - The BHC's Mission is to create a healthier living place for resident by improving opportunities for employment, safe neighborhoods, employment, education, environmental conditions, and access to healthy foods. The BHC is part of...
Music Landria - The Library of MusicLandria is a nonprofit dedicated breaking down barrier to explore music and inspire people to grown and learn through hands on experience. They offer such opportunities by providing a catalog of music equipment that can be borrowed...
Sacramento Children's Museum - Sacramento Children's Museum joins Ray Tatar and the LiveWire team to talk about their summer camps and activities happening at the museum. The Sacramento Children's museum first opened in Rancho Cordova in August of 2011 offering hands...
GRAS Suburban Permaculture with Jan Spencer - Jan Spencer and David Baker will be joining host Ray Tatar to talk about the upcoming event Creating Green and Resilient Homes and Neighborhoods. Jan comes all the way from Eugene Oregon to give this special...
FreeFall Stage - 5th Annual Masquerade Gala - FreeFall Gala - Masquerade! Life is a masquerade and we are all merely players...IT'S PARTY TIME! Saturday, May 18th, 2019 @ 7pm at the Rotary Clubhouse of Folsom. Join FreeFall Stage for a wonderfully fun evening full...
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
I’m Ivan Caballero and I have been working here at Access Local for almost four years now. Four awesome years of writing, podcasting, and reporting. This job has given me so many opportunities to expand my skills, so much so that I’m not even entirely sure if I...
The thought of being at Access Local since June of 2018 is truly astonishing. Not only did I gain work and journalism experience, but I gained connections with people who have a similar passion to me and gained connections that I otherwise would not have acquired....
Throughout the past 5 months of my life, Access Local has been a huge part of my life. Not only have I been able to attend so many amazing events, but I have also met so many phenomenal people. Through the work I have done at Access, I have...
On May 9th, Capitol Public Radio hosted the Making Meadowview Community History Night event where people from the surrounding neighborhood came out and brought old photos that they had of Meadowview and shared their stories of the area. This is a part of a long...
The kickoff event for the youth-led Skyland Youth Media Collective was a huge success. I went to speak to some of the artists and organizers to see what this event and this collective is all about.
In January of 2017, Philadelphia passed a 1.5 cent tax on sugary drinks. This caused an immense drop in sales of sugary drinks, including soda, by 38% percent. Many people opposed to the tax threatened that if the law were to pass, they would simply go to outside of...
Last month Assembly Bill 1482 was proposed which would put limits on the amount a landlord can increase the rent. This proposal comes in the face of the housing affordability crisis in California. Assemblyman David Chiu, who proposed the bill in March explained, “We...
Within the last two years, the homeless population has grown by 30% in Sacramento. Seemingly around the same time as an increase in housing, such as The Brownstones at Crocker Village and the rise of “North Oak Park”, the newly gentrified area of Oak Park. ...
Wikipedia defines the art world as “everyone involved in producing, commissioning, presenting, preserving, promoting, chronicling, criticizing, and selling fine art.” However, what this definition lacks is the fact that so often the art world tends to be very...
A new study suggests that transgender and non-binary teens in the United States are at higher risk of sexual assault in schools where they are prohibited from using the bathrooms or locker rooms that match with their sexual identity. Researchers conducted a study of...
ACCESSLOCAL FILM
Access Sacramento's 20th annual "A Place Called Sacramento" Film Festival named 10 winning writers today during a huge volunteer cast and crew call at Sacramento's Coloma Community Center. The announcement broadcast live on Access Sacramento revealed the names of the...
Ten Winners to be named in "A Place Called Sacramento" Script Competition Volunteer Film Actors and Technicians called for Live Announcement Access Sacramento's 20th annual "A Place Called Sacramento" Film Festival will announce this year's 10 winning writers...
by Danya Barrows Tonosommesso@gmail.com When a blind woman with heightened senses pursues her dream of becoming a Master Sommelier, she discovers a family secret that could keep her from ever reaching her goal. Awards: "BEST DIRECTOR" Dawn Spinella "BEST ACTOR in a...
by Nathan Reedy swiperightflick@gmail.com The very single and amused Will banters with the very committed and disenchanted Vanessa about the challenges of relationships and finding true romance in the hyper technological world of online dating.
by Eric Sanderson janeandjoemovie@gmail.com Jane and Jo may see each other every day, but will they ever hear the music of their hearts?
by Amy Lawrence never2latte4love@gmail.com Finding a partner is a project that requires time, energy and an extra clip for the Glock.
by William Mendoza justintimethemovie@gmail.com Leslie hates deadlines, but delivering newspapers late today could have a deadly penalty. "AUDIENCE FAVORITE" Award and "PRODUCERS' CHOICE" award Best Actor in a Supporting Role went to Griffen Dresbach-Hill
“The Gift” by Ritu Atwal pcsTheGift@gmail.com A young woman discovers that the greatest gift we can give to those we love, is honesty. Awards: "BEST ACTRESS in a LEADING ROLE" Rachel Brown "BEST ACTRESS in a SUPPORTING ROLE" Oliva Pratt "BEST EDITING" by Jag Sandju...
by Judith Plank escargot.the.movie@gmail.com Just your average everyday family, making big progress at a snail's pace.
by Romeo Trocino theengagementring2018@gmail.com Jason is ready to propose to the love of his life. When the big moment arises, the outcome is not what he pictured it would be.
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