Auburnas new Fire Chief, Dave Spencer, spoke before the meddlers this morning and outlined his desire to create a model to address fire prevention, particularly with weed abatement throughout the city. He said that residents and business would begin seeing information that hopefully will educate everyone on how to keep…
Auburn police discovered a bedroll on top of the Alta Vista Elementary school as evidence of a homeless person using the roof as a sleeping location, all a part of an ongoing search program to locate homeless camps throughout the area. Alta Vista staff had reported someone was sleeping on…
Reports of car break-ins in Sacramento area counties show that over the past 10 years, Placer County has registered a 6% increase and leads the area counties in percentage of activity. Placer sill is much lower in the number of vehicle break-ins as compared to Sacramento and other counties;…
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More than 2000 people are expected to participate this Saturday in the traditional a Eppieas Great Race” in Sacramento. The one major difference after 45 years, this will be the final race. Started by Eppie Johnson as a marketing stunt for his restaurant chain was considered the first modern triathlon. The…
Three men, one from Lake Tahoe, one from Davis and the other from Sacramento were arrested Sunday after they parachuted from the cat-walk underneath the Forest Hill Bridge into the American River Canyon. The three were met on the ground by Park Rangers who had been alerted by Placer County…
The California state supreme court struck down the imitative to split California into three different states yesterday by ordering the secretary of state to take the imitative off the November ballot. Venture capitalist Tim draper who has funded the imitative said it was inappropriate for the court to block it…
Thunder valley casino owners, the auburn based united Indian community, could step up and contribute 24 million dollars to finance the construction of a new road that would connect highway 65 and 99 in Sutter County. The program proposal would have 9 million dollars advanced that would not be paid…
A public hearing was held last week in Shingle Springs on a new fuel station that has been built on highway 50 at Shingle Springs Drive. A The station includes two underground storage tanks for gasoline, one underground storage tank for diesel, three gasoline dispensers, three gasoline/diesel dispensers, one diesel…
The Department of Motor Vehicles has announced that several offices will extend hours in a effort to reduce waiting times for customers. Offices in Auburn, Carmichael, Davis, Rocklin and Turlock will open at 7 AM Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fridayas. Wednesday hours will remain 9AM to 5PM. Offices in Fairfield,…