Citrus Heights Sentinel

‘Taste of Soul’ event to be held in Citrus Heights
By Sara Beth Williams– A free event celebrating Black history with food, arts and music, will be held on Feb. 25 at the Citrus Heights Community Center.

Citrus Heights promotes ‘SeeClickFix’ app to report potholes, problems
Sentinel staff report– Residents in Citrus Heights seeking to report potholes, homeless camps, street light outages, abandoned shopping carts and other non-emergency issues, can now do so on their smartphones using a “SeeClickFix” app. Meghan Huber, the city’s…

School district seeks input on ‘reimagining’ early ed in Citrus Heights
By Sara Beth Williams– San Juan Unified School District is seeking community input and feedback on “reimagining” early childhood and elementary education in Citrus Heights.

These were the top 5 stories of 2020 in Citrus Heights
The past 12 months of 2020 were filled with ups and downs, both in Citrus Heights and across the globe.

Citrus Heights police add new ‘Escape the Vape’ truck to fleet
A new police vehicle with a graphic wrap designed for community outreach to reduce youth tobacco use will soon be seen at local schools — that is, whenever schools return to session amid COVID-19 closures.

Need to get rid of your Christmas tree? Here’s how in Citrus Heights
Citrus Heights residents have several options for recycling live trees, or disposing of flocked trees.

Citrus Heights referral program helped families facing hardships in 2020
This year’s annual “Holiday Referral Program” in Citrus Heights looked a bit different due to COVID-19, but the Police Department and community volunteers still came together to support those facing hardships.

City manager’s holiday message says Citrus Heights to ‘decrease services’ next year
Citrus Heights City Manager Christopher Boyd in a holiday message posted on the city’s website Monday offered an outlook on the next year, saying residents can expect to see a decrease in services “for the forseeable future.”

Regional foreclosure filings drop 80% amid COVID-19 moratorium
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Citrus Heights News Briefs: homeless help, lights, obituary
Latest news briefs include a Citrus Heights sports bar handing out meals and supplies to homeless, another local light display being featured on CBS 13, and an obituary for a retired local car dealership owner.

Proposed future church site in Citrus Heights has not-so-holy past
The proposed site for a new 34,000-square-foot church building on Auburn Boulevard has a controversial and less-than-sacred past, according to historical records and interviews.

Struggling Citrus Heights restaurant ‘overwhelmed’ with surprise boost in customers
A struggling Citrus Heights restaurant and its small staff were treated to an early Christmas gift, thanks to an unexpected wave of customers who came to the rescue after learning the business was barely surviving amid the coronavirus…




