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.

manteca police car — 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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