Penryn News

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

This bear and its two cubs are being blamed for a rash of chicken killings in the rural Penryn area over the past three weeks.

A Northern California man and a Nevada man are facing possible life sentences after being convicted in a Placer County case involving drugs and torture.

Different juries found two men guilty of first-degree murder this week, according to Placer County court spokesman Art Campos.

This bottle from 1852 to 1854 was one of several found during work by Placer County to rebuild the courthouse on Maple Street.

Bears like this one are regular visitors to the Auburn area but rarer in lower foothills communities like Penryn and Loomis.

This imprint shows how a bear's claws dug into the door of a chicken hutch on a Loomis property before being treed and shot at.

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

The so-called Tsurunoko or Chocolate persimmon is a most mysterious, elusive and alluring fruit.

A PG&E crew member works to fix a downed power line on Rock Springs Road in Newcastle Tuesday.

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

"Go outside and play," was my late mother's command whenever the whine of boredom escaped my lips.

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.

Tom Aguilar inspects the crop at Mandarin Hill Orchards in Penryn shortly before last year's Mandarin Festival.

At the Santa Monica farmers market yesterday morning, farmer Jeff Rieger of Penryn Orchard Specialties wanted to talk about persimmons.

Gordon Takemoto, son of Main drug founders "Doc" and Rose Takemoto, is the pharmacist and owner of Main Drug Store.

Reader call: Do you have a cool mailbox? E-mail a color photo of your mailbox to h&g@sacbee.com by Sept.

Jaime Chinn, left, and Cheyenne Sanchez get ready to show sheep at the Gold Country Fair in Auburn this weekend.

It's time once again for the annual excitement that is the Gold Country Fair. Beyond the midways with their neon lights and exhilarating rides, past the hucksters hawking the latest innovations, a bit further than the corn dogs and cotton candy lies another world.

A jail sentence for a San Jose State University football player who was convicted of battery was increased from 45 days to 60 days this week by a Placer County judge, according to a news release from the District Attorney's Office.