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By: Kayle Melicher Anxiety! This is a word many people know all too well, and I don’t mean that I get test anxiety or normal everyday anxiety; no, the type that is crippling. Now I don’t want to minimize any anxiety so if you get test anxiety or just everyday normal...
By Will James Hometown Sports When it comes to scheduling elite high profile opponents, Monterey Trail Head Coach T.J. Ewing reaches as high as possible. Friday night in Elk Grove the second part of a grandiose home-and home package unfolds when the fabled De La Salle...
By Bella Richmond The mask mandate was lifted on March 1 in Sacramento, but the coronavirus disease hasn’t gone away yet. It is getting kind of rare to see a mask out in the world. And yet, last week one of my meetings was canceled due to COVID shutting down a site....
Access Sacramento Celebrates 24th Season of Game of the Week Coverage by Will James Hometown Sports Summer vacation has ended, school is back in session, and a new high school football season gets underway Friday evening with explosive action all across the...
By Isaac Davis On 2251 Florin Road, Florin Square holds its annual African Marketplace event on the first and third Saturday of every month. This event will draw you to various parts of African culture through food, clothing, hair and skin products, and accessories....
By Bella Richmond: Sacramento Pride showed up this year for a spectacular celebration! Pride month is in June to honor the Stonewall riot on Jun. 28, 1969. According to the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Making History exhibit, patrons of the Stonewall Inn in...
Written by: Bella Richmond My name is Bella, and I am a new Neighborhood Youth Reporter (NYR). The Neighborhood Youth Reporters work for Access Sacramento. Access is a local nonprofit, providing television and radio content. I will write about relevant issues that...
Written by Isaac Davis: My name is Isaac Davis; I was born and raised in Sacramento, California. I am currently a rising senior at Laguna Creek High School. I'm engaged in various groups and organizations at my high school, which allow me to participate...
Written by Harlan Gonzales Hello! My name is Harlan Gonzales. I am a student at Sacramento City College studying Computer Science. When I am not studying, I am usually working as a supervisor at a coffee shop. Although my schedule tends to stay busy, I still find time...
-Featured image by Fauxels Written by Bella Richmond, Intern, Met Sacramento High School Today's job market is rife with contradicting expectations for applicants. Internships can help potential employees fit more of a job’s requirements. As a junior in high...
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Written by: Kayle Melicher Who am I? Well that’s a good question. I am the type of girl who is described as optimistic, I love to see the positive in a situation. I am the girl who believes that there can be hope even when hope seems to be all lost. So this article is...
By Bella Richmond: Sacramento Pride showed up this year for a spectacular celebration! Pride month is in June to honor the Stonewall riot on Jun. 28, 1969. According to the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Making History exhibit, patrons of the Stonewall Inn in...
Written by Lonnie Ford A (n)oun that is defined as noble, ready. Often, when asked to introduce ourselves, we tend to introduce ourselves by our age, birthplace, career and academic attributes, and another person’s perception of who they think we are. It is then we...
Written by: Bella Richmond My name is Bella, and I am a new Neighborhood Youth Reporter (NYR). The Neighborhood Youth Reporters work for Access Sacramento. Access is a local nonprofit, providing television and radio content. I will write about relevant issues that...
Written by Isaac Davis: My name is Isaac Davis; I was born and raised in Sacramento, California. I am currently a rising senior at Laguna Creek High School. I'm engaged in various groups and organizations at my high school, which allow me to participate...
Written by Harlan Gonzales Hello! My name is Harlan Gonzales. I am a student at Sacramento City College studying Computer Science. When I am not studying, I am usually working as a supervisor at a coffee shop. Although my schedule tends to stay busy, I still find time...
-Featured image by Fauxels Written by Bella Richmond, Intern, Met Sacramento High School Today's job market is rife with contradicting expectations for applicants. Internships can help potential employees fit more of a job’s requirements. As a junior in high...
-Featured image by Pixabay.com Written by Bella Richmond, Intern, Met Sacramento High School March was California’s arts education month, and in honor of the arts, I directed my attention to understanding the real prevalence of arts education in Sacramento high...
-Featured image by Vanessa Loring Written by Bella Richmond, Intern, Met Sacramento High School March is California’s Arts Education month and I am researching what high school students think about arts education and what our community can do to make sure it is...
Featured image by Syda Productions Written by Bella Richmond, Intern, Met Sacramento High School In the two previous articles, Adapting to Pandemic Learning...Again and The Challenges of Educating In Person, In a Pandemic, I interviewed four students and three...
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Featured image by Syda Productions Written by Bella Richmond, Intern, Met Sacramento High School In the two previous articles, Adapting to Pandemic Learning...Again and The Challenges of Educating In Person, In a Pandemic, I interviewed four students and three...
Featured image by Andrea Piacquadio Written by Bella Richmond, Intern, Met Sacramento High School In the previous article, Adapting to Pandemic Learning...Again, I interviewed four upperclassmen from the Met Sacramento High School about their back to in-person...
~Featured image by Cottonbro Written by Bella Richmond, Intern, Met Sacramento High School Despite my hopes, school is not back to normal. My name is Bella, and I’m a Junior in high school. I’m a student at the Met Sacramento, which has been in session since September...
Written by Arabesque Lynaolu, Intern 2021 “Public health is a discipline that doesn’t get enough attention,” Program Specialist Maria Rivas of Public Health Advocates says. “I think more people are focused on medicine and politics, and so public health is sort of this...
What a Graduating Senior Learned Over 4 Years of High School—Advice, Lessons, and General Knowledge 1. School is dumb If you’re under 18, you know this already. The United States’ educational system sucks. The vast majority of the information you learn in high school...
Over the past year, many students and young adults have found themselves with a lot more time on their hands. Some used that time to play video games. Many binged Netflix shows or watched YouTube. Some took to keeping up with the latest news about the virus. Others...
According to a study in 2017 by the Women’s Sports Foundation, girls are dropping out of sports at 1.5x the rate that boys do by age 14. Then by age 17, more than half of girls will quit playing sports altogether. Many factors play into this statistic, many connect to...
We are all well-accustomed to movies and films depicting the oppression of and racism against Black people. These stories are in high demand as social justice has turned into something of a trend over the past year. However, what we forget to consider is how...
For most, the isolation and loneliness of quarantine did not offer much to improve one’s mental health. In my case, the isolation was exactly what I needed. Before March 2020, when everything shut down, I struggled for years with severe anxiety and PTSD caused by...
As climate change becomes increasingly more and more relevant within our day to day lives, climate anxiety does as well. Civilians are experiencing an ever growing amount of stress when it comes to climate change, especially the youth. The unknown of what Earth will...
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By Will James Hometown Sports When it comes to scheduling elite high profile opponents, Monterey Trail Head Coach T.J. Ewing reaches as high as possible. Friday night in Elk Grove the second part of a grandiose home-and home package unfolds when the fabled De La Salle...
Access Sacramento Celebrates 24th Season of Game of the Week Coverage by Will James Hometown Sports Summer vacation has ended, school is back in session, and a new high school football season gets underway Friday evening with explosive action all across the...
Local Powers Monterey Trail, Elk Grove in Classic Runfest by Will James Hometown Sports If you enjoy the sophisticated elements of football's running game, then this is the ideal match-up for you to see on Access Sacramento's Hometown Sports Game of the Week. The...
CIF-SJS Football Playoffs Quarterfinal Round by Will James Hometown Sports Playoff opponents with two distinctly contrasting styles will collide head-on in second round action of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Football Playoffs Friday evening when the 4-seed Antelope...
#4 Antelope and #5 Inderkum Battle for Conference Crown by Will James Hometown Sports It's week eight of the high school football season, and contending teams striving to capture a league championship, or also-rans chasing a berth in the rapidly approaching CIF...
Bulldogs Brace for Spartan Invasion by Will James Hometown Sports When it comes to promoting a high profile football game, all too often the promotion far exceeds the actual attraction of the event. Fortunately, that's not the case for Friday's eagerly awaited marquee...
Sleepers Look to Surface in Delta League Win Column by Will James Hometown Sports Thus far, after just one week of play in the Delta League, the balance of power is taking shape as expected. After posting victories last week, Jesuit, Cosumnes Oaks, and Sheldon occupy...
by Will James Hometown Sports The high school football season has reached Week-5; a crucial juncture punctuated as a greater measure of seriousness and intensity emerges with the start of league play. The centerpiece among the top pairings this week unfolds Friday...
by Will James Hometown Sports Fall football in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section enters Week-4 of the rapidly advancing season, traversing the calendar at a better rate than the games actually being played. COVID-19 and lingering poor air quality in the region since the...
by Will James Hometown Sports Besides territorial bragging rights, an important early season outcome will be on the line Friday evening when the Grant Pacers tangle with the Inderkum Tigers in the featured varsity football match-up on Access Sacramento's Home Town...
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Access Sacramento's 21st annual "A Place Called Sacramento" (PCS) Film Festival postpones the release of 10 original local films for at least nine months to promote the health and safety of the film crews and expected theater audience. In consultation over the summer...
Ten Films to be produced over the summer before world premiere Oct. 3, 2020 Sacramento -- Access Sacramento's 21st annual "A Place Called Sacramento" Film Festival named 10 winning writers during a live televised and streamed virtual volunteer Cast and Crew Call...
Access Sacramento presents full televised coverage of the stage presentations and world premiere of 10 original 10-minute movies as part of the 20th annual "A Place Called Sacramento" Film Festival beginning Friday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. The program presents the...
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...
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 Nathan Reedy swiperightflick@gmail.com
Jane and Jo may see each other every day, but will they ever hear the music of their hearts? by Eric Sanderson janeandjoemovie@gmail.com
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
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