Newcastle News

That well-worn phrase "as easy as riding a bike"? Don't even think of applying it to mountain biking.

Pilz Produce at Hillcrest, Penryn puts out some colorful pumpkins and winter squash.

Members of Placer High Interact Club left to right, CJ Stadtmiller, Jenna Harlacher and Michelle Deleon rehearse their deathly skit on junior Caleb Mitchell in a dressing room at the Placer Auditorium where they will have their haunted house 6-10 p.m. Friday, 2-5 p.m. Saturday for children and again 6-10 p.m. Saturday for adults.

Lynn Lewis, co-owner of the Newcastle Mandarin Ranch, inspects ripening mandarins that she says will be harvested a week before the Mountain Mandarin Festival in November.

Jan Thompson, owner of Newcastle Produce, and chef Chelsea Federwitz prepare mushrooms for quiche and burritos in the deli section of the store.

Twister, a 6-year-old Arabian and Quarter Horse, was spooked by last weeka s storm and was missing for four days before he was found Sunday morning.

The District Attorneya TMs Office has declined to prosecute a domestic violence case against an Auburn public official.

In our garden, little by little, every tomato plant but one has been cut off right at soil level.

Ghost hunter Jeff Dwyer's new ghost-hunting guide zeroes in on haunting happenings along Highway 49, including the Auburn area.

Placer Sheriffa s detectives arrested three men Thursday in connection with a a oehugea burglary ring.

Town of Loomis public works staff are kept busy cleaning up during the first storm of the season on Tuesday.

Dominick Granata of Lincoln, left, Bob Smith of Auburn, center, and Mike Granata of Newcastle stand next to the 1929 Ford Model A Roadster that Dominick Granata drove when he qualified for the Bonneville 200-MPH Club last month at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

Walter Taylor points to a photograph taken in front of the Blue Goose Fruit Shed in the 1940s that includes his father, Porter Lee Taylor, for whom Taylor Road was named.

Joanne Neft, right, serves Romano beans to Julie Rackey, center, and Cindy Wachob, left, during a recent dinner party at her Auburn home.

So, here we are... smack dab in the middle of what used to be salmon season in NorCal.

Local schools continue to prove their educational prowess, with many scoring above the statea s 741-point average and climbing above the statea s 800-point Academic Performance Index target goal.

A California Highway Patrol car caught fire and was totally demolished following a high-speed chase on Foresthill Road Sunday afternoon.

At the height of the 49 Fire, the number of trucks that responded was in the double digits and personnel numbers reached the hundreds.

Residents and business owners who saw their lives forever changed by the 49 Fire returned Tuesday to witness the deadly recipe of weather, wind and flame that ripped through their North Auburn neighborhoods Sunday.

Approximately 60 structures were destroyed in the 49 Fire area shown above. As flames tore through homes and businesses in North Auburn, a series of automated phone calls from the Placer County Sheriff's Department's dispatch office alerted residents to voluntary and mandatory evacuations.