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Bridge to Lathrops future under way
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A boat passing under the bridge being built across the San Joaquin River to connect West Lathrop with River Islands at Lathrop. - photo by HIME ROMERO
LATHROP - The Bridge known as Bradshaw’s Crossing over the San Joaquin River will be completed later this year. It won’t carry pedestrians or vehicles, though, until at least 2016. That’s because Cambay Group is going ahead with major infrastructure - including a $25 million state-of-the-art school that is now under construction - ahead of housing development.
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Endless police car crashes, dump opening & more: Working for the ‘weekly squeak’ as a 15 year-old
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Unusual police vehicle crashes — such as the one shown above 25 years ago when a Manteca Police unit ended up driving off a rural dirt road south of Woodward Avenue into a drainage ditch right after the vehicle the officer was pursuing did — were a routine occurrence for a while in Lincoln in Placer County.
Fifty-four 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.
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