Efforts to open a new campus in the central city’s Newton Booth neighborhood have stalled because of fundraising difficulties. Stephen Repsher, headmaster of Country Day School in Sacramento’s Sierra Oaks neighborhood, said the school is struggling to raise a remaining $1.2 million to launch a campus in the old Newton Booth School at 2600 V St. “We’d love to have the money right away, but we’re having a dickens of a time raising the funds,” Repsher said. At this point, the preschool-to-12th-grade school has collected about $1.3 million of the $2.5 million it needs to start a new campus, he said. The school enrolled 471 students at its Latham Drive location in the 2009-2010 school year,

When asked to talk about their neighborhoods, Sacramento residents have a lot to say. Sacramento dwellers who follow The Sacramento Press on Twitter revealed their feelings about their neighborhoods on Wednesday and Thursday. Check out their tweets: @ShermanLoehr: I dwell in River Park. Love being so close to the wonders of East Sac & Fair Oaks Blvd. And listening to trains at night! @journalistnate: I was born and raised in Oak Park. People from elsewhere are a lot more freaked out about my neighborhood than I am. @johntodd: RioLinda is not NEARLY as miserable as many make it out to be. It’s much more Mayberry than South Central. @swellyn: West Tahoe Park. Highly diverse, some artists