Auburn police and officials of the Placer Union High School District declined to make any enlightening comments Tuesday about the August 27 gun scare at Placer High School, which resulted in a campus lockdown for a few hours.
The board of supervisors has approved change orders totaling $370,000 on the Willow Creek Drive extension project in North Auburn, bringing the total contract amount to $1,709,308.
Gabe Mendez Inc. of Auburn is the contractor on the extension, which will link State Highway 49 with the county’s DeWitt Center and provide better access to the Home Depot megastore, which is due to be opened next year.
The murder trial of nanny Veronica Martinez Salcedo, who is accused of shaking to death the baby for whom she was caring, was underway in Placer County Superior Court this week.
Salcedo was arrested in May of last year after the baby, Hannah Rose Juceam, 16 months, died in a Sacramento hospital. The infant was the daughter of Lorena and Scott Juceam of Roseville. The trial is expected to last through next week.
The Auburn City Council got into the name-calling business this week but there wasn’t anything nasty about it.
The council named Auburn’s railroad/bus station on Nevada Street for Robert F. “Bob” Conheim, a train buff extraordinaire and nationally known passenger train booster who died July 15 at age 63, a victim of cancer.
Appointments of two new members to the Placer County Planning Commission were approved this week by the board of supervisors.
New Planning Official — Laurence Farinha, left, was congratulated by Planning Director Michael Johnson after being named the District 5 member of the Placer County Planning Commission. The board of supervisors also appointed Richard Johnson to the District 3 seat on the panel.
The increasing suburbanization of Placer County’s once-thriving farmlands was largely responsible for the glaring decrease in agriculture production in the county last year.
Things were back to normal at Placer High School on Tuesday in the wake of a campus lockdown that lasted for more than an hour Monday morning while police searched for a handgun-toting man who was seen in the vicinity of the Earl Crabbe gymnasium.
Auburn’s Mike Holmes is off and running — again — for Congress.
Holmes, an Auburn city councilman, retired U.S. Navy captain and decorated Vietnam War combat veteran, announced last week that he’ll take a second shot at replacing nine-term incumbent John T. Doolittle in the 4th Congressional District, which encompasses northeastern California from El Dorado County to the Oregon line. The primary election is next June 3.
