Officials break ground on Highway 65 bypass - Lincoln News Messenger
Transportation officials broke ground on the $325 million Highway 65 bypass in Lincoln on Friday - more than three decades after a need for the project was identified.  Congressman Doolittle attended what he agreed may be his last major groundbreaking as our Congressman.

Archer going to trial - Marysville Appeal-Democrat
Earnest Rex Archer, a former Yuba County Sheriff's Department reserve deputy and one-time county supervisor candidate, was bound over for trial Friday on seven child molestation charges.

Auburn Police, commended by Placer County grand jury - Auburn Journal
The panel critical of Lincoln school district, praises animal shelter, North Auburn jail.

Auburn air quality 9 times worse than federal standard - Auburn Journal
I have cancelled my son's select soccer team practice all week due to the air quality.

Man hides overnight in Auburn store to break into pharmacy - Sac Bee and Auburn Journal
Placer County sheriff's detectives are looking for a man who hid inside a Target store in north Auburn when the business closed Thursday and then broke into the pharmacy.

Country club members in rough - Sac Business Journal
Members of a Placer County country club stand to lose an estimated $11 million in initiation fees because of the club's foreclosure.

Placer Vineyards lenders can't agree on sale - Sac Business Journal
More than 400 individual lenders to a defunct investment company are deadlocked on how to handle a 338-acre tract of undeveloped south Placer County land after finding themselves reluctantly in charge of the property's fate.

Phony water workers steal from elderly Loomis couple - Sac Bee
Two men tricked an elderly Loomis couple by posing as water workers Friday, stealing cash and other valuables as they distracted them.

Fire chief reminds 'no tolerance' - Placer Herald
Rocklin fire officials warn of a "zero tolerance" policy regarding the use of fireworks in the city during this Fourth of July season.

Pleasant Ridge superintendent resigns from post - The Union of Grass Valley
Linda Rooney has resigned from her post as superintendent of Pleasant Ridge Union School District, ending a 30-year career with the south county district.

Dry lightning forecast sparks more fire fears - Truckee Sierra Sun
Weather similar to what sparked hundreds of lightning fires last weekend is expected to return to the Sierra this weekend.

Who ya gonna call? - Folsom Telegraph
This article is linked to in most of the Placer papers, which are sisters to the FOlsom Telegraph.  I link to it because I am working with Andy Pugno on the YEs of Proposition 8/Protect Marriage campaign.