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Nearly 2,000 PG&E customers without power in Placer County amid heat wave
(FOX40.COM) — According to PG&E’s outage map, nearly 2,000 customers are without power in Placer County on the evening of the Fourth of July holiday amid triple-digit temperatures currently hitting the state. The utility company said the outage was first reported around 6 p.m. on Thursday and is affecting 1,793 customers in the Colfax area, […]
Cooling centers opens in Auburn, Colfax , and Foresthill
Auburn, Calif. – In response to the National Weather Service’s excessive heat warning, Placer County libraries are extending their hours at the Auburn, Colfax and Foresthill locations to provide residents with a cool and comfortable space to escape the heat. “Placer County libraries are committed to serving the...
Auburn budget adoption projects smaller structural deficit
The Auburn City Council unanimously adopted its 2024-2025 fiscal-year budget last week, revealing the structural deficit has dropped slightly. Since discovering the structural deficit earlier this year, council and staff have taken action to tighten budgets, freeze vacant positions and declare a fiscal emergency which cancels projected salary increases. Finance...
The Dark Underbelly of Your American School District, part 3: Funding
There are several key issues that are leading to children with learning disabilities not getting the education they need. Today, we’ll talk about funding. The federal government mandated special education services for kids in K-12 in 1975, with the Education For All Handicapped Children Act. At the same time, legislators promised the federal government would help states with funding special education. The promise was to provide 40 percent of the cost for each child. A special education student was found to cost the state about 150 percent of a non-special education student. Therefore, with federal help, the states would only have to come up with an additional 10 percent to meet the additional needs of a special education student. Unfortunately, the federal government has never come close to meeting that promise. Thus, states have a huge burden of new costs, which neither state nor federal funding has managed to meet.
Greater Auburn Fire Safe Council here to help serve community
The Greater Auburn Fire Safe Council (GAAFSC) is here to serve you. The council consists of eight community members and covers the area from Bowman to Penryn and including Auburn, Newcastle and Penryn. Our mission is to advocate for our community and provide resources for residents. For example, GAAFSC instructs volunteers in the community when to raise the Red Flags in extreme fire danger conditions. We communicate with the Auburn, Newcastle and Penryn fire departments and Placer County Fire. We provide educational materials to assist homeowners in making their properties more fire safe.
Brewer Fire contained burns west of Roseville in Placer County
PLACER COUNTY, Calif. — A fire was sparked Wednesday morning at an abandoned property west of Roseville in Placer County, CAL FIRE NEU said. A half-acre of grass, a building and a car were burned. Fire crews were dispatched around 10:31 a.m. to South Brewer and Baseline roads. The...
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