

Business
Ruby's Books owner Stacy Gould purchased the former Fire and Rain Gallery at 705 Sutter St. in Historic Folsom for $1.67 million and plans to expand the building into a 6,000-plus-square-foot, two-story bookstore with a dedicated children's department, targeting a 2027 move.

Business
Ruby's Books owner Stacy Gould purchased the former Fire and Rain Gallery at 705 Sutter St. in Historic Folsom for $1.67 million and plans to expand the building into a 6,000-plus-square-foot, two-story bookstore with a dedicated children's department, targeting a 2027 move.

Business
Ruby's Books owner Stacy Gould purchased the former Fire and Rain Gallery at 705 Sutter St. in Historic Folsom for $1.67 million and plans to expand the building into a 6,000-plus-square-foot, two-story bookstore with a dedicated children's department, targeting a 2027 move.

Editor
Angela Yamamoto is an editor with a broadcast journalism background, and is passionate about stories that inform and connect. She started as a TV producer, anchor, and reporter at NBC16 in her hometown of Eugene, Oregon, covering breaking news and community features. A stint producing national news in New York City made her realize she missed community-focused storytelling, bringing her back to her roots.

Editor
Angela Yamamoto is an editor with a broadcast journalism background, and is passionate about stories that inform and connect. She started as a TV producer, anchor, and reporter at NBC16 in her hometown of Eugene, Oregon, covering breaking news and community features. A stint producing national news in New York City made her realize she missed community-focused storytelling, bringing her back to her roots.

Editor
Angela Yamamoto is an editor with a broadcast journalism background, and is passionate about stories that inform and connect. She started as a TV producer, anchor, and reporter at NBC16 in her hometown of Eugene, Oregon, covering breaking news and community features. A stint producing national news in New York City made her realize she missed community-focused storytelling, bringing her back to her roots.
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Local Government
All four candidates for the El Dorado Hills Community Services District board faced voters at an Oct. 1 League of Women Voters forum, staking out positions on the district's golf-course debt, tangled landscape assessments and the push for cityhood ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

Local Government
Folsom police deployed a drone to track e-motorcycle riders who fled a Sept. 25 enforcement operation, citing one juvenile and towing the vehicle, as the city steps up enforcement against illegal e-motorcycles.

Education
Vista del Lago High School music instructor Vince Martini created the Contemporary Music Ensemble when the Folsom campus opened, giving students the freedom to choose, arrange and perform their own music in a band-style setting.

Education
Two teams from Folsom Education Academy claimed first and second place at SMUD's KidWind Challenge Jr. on Sept. 11, outperforming more than 130 middle schoolers from across the Sacramento region in a wind-turbine design competition at the Aerospace Museum of California.

Public Safety
Mario Ortega, 47, died Oct. 6 after fellow inmate Shunki E. Fleming allegedly freed himself from hand restraints and attacked Ortega during a golf-cart escort at California State Prison, Sacramento, marking the facility's second homicide investigation in 2026.

Public Safety
The Folsom Police Department's Oct. 5 police log recorded three fraud cases totaling an estimated $41,600 in losses, including a $22,000 Apple Support impersonation scam and $19,000 in fraudulent credit card payments at a Folsom Boulevard business.

Community
The Rescue Union School District has completed a two-year solar installation project, bringing renewable energy online at all seven of its El Dorado Hills and Cameron Park campuses at no cost to the general fund, with guaranteed savings to be reinvested in facility repairs over 25 years.

Community
The Folsom Lake Symphony launches its 23rd season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Harris Center for the Arts, featuring violinist Joshua Brown in Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 and Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique" under Maestro Peter Jaffe.

Business
Ruby's Books owner Stacy Gould purchased the former Fire and Rain Gallery at 705 Sutter St. in Historic Folsom for $1.67 million and plans to expand the building into a 6,000-plus-square-foot, two-story bookstore with a dedicated children's department, targeting a 2027 move.

Business
Relove Consignment on East Bidwell Street in Folsom has been named Best Consignment Store in the Style Magazine Readers Choice Awards for the eighth consecutive year.

Sports
Folsom Lake College women's soccer enters Big 8 Conference play at 9-0 with a 31-0 scoring margin in eight on-field games, led by freshman Jada Ardoin's eight goals and a goalkeeper rotation that has not allowed a goal all season.

Sports
Folsom Lake College volleyball opened Big 8 Conference play 0-4 despite competitive showings, with freshman Aubrey Ballew leading the Falcons in kills in three of four matches and sophomore libero Madi Hyer recording double-figure digs in every contest.

Elections
California Propositions 41 and 43 on the Tuesday, Nov. 3 ballot would restrict new state and local taxes by reinforcing the Gann Limit spending cap, which applies to most local governments statewide including those in Folsom, El Dorado Hills and Cameron Park.

Elections
Democrat Amy Slavensky, a retired school superintendent from Fair Oaks, is challenging Republican Assemblymember Josh Hoover for the District 7 seat covering Folsom, Citrus Heights and Rancho Cordova, running on education funding, affordability and homelessness response.
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