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Rocklin shakes up SFL

The highlight of this week’s beginning of league play was the Rocklin boys basketball team win at Del Oro. Anyone familiar with high school competition in this area knows the ...

Let’s Talk Mental Health: Juvenile injustice

The crisis is devastating and undeniable: An invisible population of youth lingering between the juvenile justice and mental health systems with unprecedented unmet needs. Current ...

Rocklin's museum: There’s history behind those walls

The Rocklin History Museum is at 3895 Rocklin Road, at the corner of San Francisco Street. Dr. Henry Fletcher erected this building as his home and office in 1905, boom times for ...

Fans make a difference

I wrote about this a couple weeks ago after covering the Rocklin Holiday Tournament. It had to do with the Thunder’s last game of the event against Weston Ranch. The boys in ...

Rocklin History Tour Stop 3: City Hall was a quarry store

This building is at 3980 Rocklin Road. Adolf Pernu, owner of Rocklin’s early 20th-century California Granite Company quarry, built it as a company store for his employees in ...

Putting on the show

This past week I had the opportunity to cover the Whitney Winter Tournament for boys basketball. I had a chance to visit with Wildcats head coach Matthew Rickabaugh before the var ...

Let’s Talk Mental Health: When caregivers need care

The extraordinary feats of our mythical superheroes, Superman, Wonder Woman and Captain America, pale in comparison to the strength, stamina and compassion of our real life, unsung ...

Focus on Diabetes Health: Diabetes and the feet

Case: HJ is a 62-year-old woman who has had type 2 diabetes for 12 years. Her average blood glucose is 220. She has had three toe amputations and now has an infection on her right ...

More predictions by the numbers

Last week, I introduced my ingenious method for predicting how the boys basketball teams would fare in the Pioneer Valley, Sierra Foothill, and Capital Athletic leagues. To repeat ...

Let's Talk Mental Health: Grandparents raising grandchildren

You assumed that your days of raising children were over. But surprisingly, a twist of fate happens with little or no advance notice. You have to raise your grandchildren, and one ...