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COTHERSTONE has come home to the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle. A painting of the museum founder’s Derby-winning racehorse, on which he had bets worth £4m in today’s money riding, has been acquired at auction through a bequest left by a former headmistress of Polam Hall School in Darlington. John Bowes bred Cotherstone at his stud at Streatlam Castle, near Barney, in 1840, and, having named the horse after the Teesdale village, he sent him for training at John Scott’s yard in Malton in Ryedale. In those days, the sport of kings was notoriously crooked, and although Cotherstone...

During marathon meetings on Tuesday and Thursday, Jan. 19 and 21, the Davis school board burned a bit of midnight oil as the trustees approved a series of motions, as well as special instructions to staff regarding further work, that provide much of the framework regarding what school will be like w

Yolo County Public Health Officer Aimee Sisson offered an updated analysis of the county’s current COVID status at Thursday evening’s Davis school board. And much of what she said was not exactly music to the ears of the trustees. Sisson said the number of new COVID cases in the c

9 Jan 2021 SEA VIEW: Josephine Bowes’ painting Squally Weather: A Sketch near Boulogne. In the latest of her occasional columns, Dorothy Blundell takes a sideways look at the collections of The Bowes Museum where she is a volunteer WHY is the ocean green? Because the seaweed! A cracker-joke favourite, but it was no laughing matter for Joséphine Bowes. She was terrified of the sea – famously so. A report appeared in the Sporting Times in the early 1900s from a correspondent whose business had taken him to the Admiralty Pier in Dover in the 1860s. He recounted how his attention was drawn...

School board to hear virus update, discuss reopening Support Local Journalism On Thursday evening, Jan. 7, the Davis school board will assess the status of the coronavirus pandemic in Yolo County, after hearing an update from Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson. The school board trustees will hear a presentation by school district staff describing several different scenarios for the eventual return of students and teachers to school classroom, and consider an appropriate timeline for the resumption of classroom learning. In addition, the trustees are likely to discuss Gov. Gavin Newso...