Sutter County Superintendent of Schools held its third annual Educators of the Year Awards on Thursday, celebrating teachers and staff members for their outstanding commitment to their schools.
Working for the ‘weekly squeak’ as 15 year-old for 15 cents per column inch PERSPCTIVE Unusual police vehicle crashes such as the one shown above 20 years ago when a Manteca Police unit ended up driving off a rural dirt road into a drainage ditch right after they vehicle the officer was pursuing did were a routine occurrence for a while in Lincoln in Placer County.
Forty-nine years ago in February I became the sports editor of the “weekly squeak”, the name that almost everyone in Lincoln called the News Messenger that has been publishing every Thursday since 1891.
It’s not as a big deal as it sounds. I was a high school sophomore at the time. I was paid a dollar for every photo that ran, a dollar for every roll of film I processed, and 15 cents per column inch. Depending upon the season it was 1½ to 3 pages a week.