Penryn News

Heritage turkeys like these at the Minkner family's ranch don't look anything like supermarket turkeys.

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

Betty Doupnik and Roy Draper, co-directors of the Loomis Basin Food Pantry, are appealing for donations to restock the shelves of the community food closet.

Not everything is sweet in Placer County's citrus country. California growers are anxious about the threat of the Asian citrus psyllid, an insect that feeds on citrus leaves and stems.

Merridee Smith demonstrates how to make a wool, silk & tinsel vessel, one of her many creations on display at Old Library Art Studios.

The 15th Annual Cowpoke Fall Gathering is ready to take over the Blue Goose Fruit Shed for a weekend of poetry, storytelling, music, food and laughs.

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.