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Business Journals
04-07-2025
- Business
- Business Journals
5 things: Nitty's Cider expands to Placer County, Woodland
Welcome to Friday, loyal readers. Here's what you need to know on the Fourth of July. Want more local business headlines? Sign up for our morning and afternoon newsletters to get Sacramento business news delivered straight to your inbox. GET TO KNOW YOUR CITY Find Local Events Near You Connect with a community of local professionals. Explore All Events Nitty's Cider expands to Placer County A local cider maker has opened a new location. A grand opening is underway for Nitty's Cider at Fowler Ranch near Lincoln, according to a social media announcement from the alcoholic cider business. The grand opening will be held through Sunday, the announcement states. Fowler Ranch is at 3111 Lincoln Newcastle Highway. In 2022, Clarksburg-based Nitty's Cider opened an East Sacramento tasting room at 3201 Folsom Blvd. The cidery is also planning a Woodland location, local journalist Wendy Weitzel has reported. City faces legal threat in Railyards infrastructure district dispute Opponents of an expanded enhanced infrastructure financing district for the Railyards development in Sacramento threatened legal action Thursday, saying city leaders were taking too long to tabulate protest letters against the expansion. At a news conference near Sacramento City Hall, Aamir Deen of labor union Unite Here Local 49 said the city isn't following state law for creation or expansion of an EIFD by not certifying the protest letters in a timely manner. Senior Reporter Ben van der Meer has the latest on the Railyards infrastructure district dispute. New ordinance could boost Sacramento's nightlife economy Sacramento officials adopted a new ordinance last month establishing entertainment zones throughout the city, a move expected to benefit local businesses and support economic development. The local ordinance, which was spearheaded by the city's Office of Nighttime Economy, established framework for the creation of entertainment zones, which will allow businesses within designated areas to sell alcoholic beverages that can be consumed in public streets, sidewalks and public rights-of-way during special events. Initially, three zones were identified, including the area around 20th and K streets in Midtown, Ali Youssefi Square on K Street between Seventh and Eighth streets, and the area surrounding the SAFE Credit Union Convention and Performing Arts Center. "This is going to be a great thing for businesses and I really see it jumpstarting Seventh and K," said Bob Simpson, whose businesses Townie and Malt & Mash are located in the K Street zone. Reporter Jake Abbott explains what you need to know about Sacramento's entertainment zone ordinance. Ethan Conrad sells Rancho Cordova building Twelve years after real estate investor Ethan Conrad bought an office/warehouse building in Rancho Cordova, he's garnered a substantial gain in selling it. The $3.89 million, or $135-per-square-foot, sale of 11418 Sunrise Gold Circle is a gain of more than four times above what Conrad paid for it in 2013. Senior Reporter Ben van der Meer has details about the Rancho Cordova building that Ethan Conrad sold. Retirement village sells land, plans reopening As St. John's Retirement Village in Woodland works to fully reopen, the nonprofit's board of directors has sold excess land to a private utility company. According to records, St. John's sold land on Cleveland Street north of its main property to Pacific Gas & Electric Company for $3.19 million. St. John's closed in 2022 after 17 people living or working there died during the initial Covid-19 outbreak two years earlier. Directors cited rising expenses and labor costs in the succeeding years as impossible to overcome. Senior Reporter Ben van der Meer has an update on St. John's Retirement Village in Woodland. Have a great weekend, folks. Thanks for reading.
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Kitten deaths raise questions about Clarksburg-based pet rescue
FAIRMONT — Around the middle of May, Brendalynn Rose's niece purchased a kitten from an adoption event in Clarksburg after her grandmother's cat passed away. But after only a few days, the kitten died. 'My mom kept saying, 'this kitten isn't as old as they're saying it is,'' Rose said. 'It was just so tiny, and obviously — probably shouldn't have been away from the mama. But my mom called me and told me, 'it's not really moving.' It's only been up twice since we bought it and it wouldn't eat. So they took it up to the vet, and they said it had Parvo. It ended up dying on the table while there.' Rose's kitten was one of eight kittens from the event that died shortly after their adoption. As a result, the Clarksburg-based rescue who organized the adoption, PupSavers Rescue, is the subject of outrage from members of the community who adopted the animals. Rose said after the kitten died, she reached out to the proprietor of Pupsavers Rescue, A.J. Springfield. She was told that a veterinarian out of Charleston had checked the animals before the event, and none of the kittens were found to be sick at the time. She said Springfield offered to give them another kitten, but declined to give Rose a refund. 'He was like, in the contract there's no refund,' Rose said. 'And I'm like, but in the contract, it doesn't say your cat comes with Parvo. Now, [my niece] is $120 out of a cat and I'm just $300 out of a vet bill trying to see what was going on. But yeah, they will not give me any records for the checkup these cats supposedly had. He won't give me the number to the vet that supposedly checked them.' Lexi Fetty shared a similar experience. On May 14, she adopted a kitten and named it BroDarius. However, while she was at the event she noticed the kittens up for adoption at the event were showing signs of distress, including runny feces. (Rose said her kitten also had diarrhea.) Fetty said they were told that runny stool was a normal reaction to a change in food, but Fetty noticed BroDarius also looked small and frail. She spent $150 for the adoption, but after 10 days, the kitten died. 'He showed no signs of illness other than the runny stool and symptoms previously listed above,' she said in an email statement. 'It was devastating to find him lifeless the next morning after a night of cuddles and purring.' After BroDarius passed, Fetty said she learned at least three other people had reported a similar incident that week. Janissa Hayes also learned from her vet that the kitten she adopted was not the three months old she was told, but closer to seven weeks. Hayes' kitten fortunately survived, after Hayes spent $800 on care. Fetty and Hayes said the rescue did not provide them with vet records. Fetty alleged a lack of proper veterinary care and evaluation prior to adoption. On May 28, PupSavers Rescue acknowledged the deaths through a post to the Fairmont Community Facebook Page. At the time, they said the cause of death was unknown, with the time frame between adoption and passing ranged from nearly two weeks to a few days. On a separate post, they confirmed a vet looked over the kittens while at the event. They pointed out there is no Parvo testing that can be done at a young age, especially when they're not showing any symptoms. However, late Thursday evening the veterinarian, who asked not to identify them, reached out to the Times West Virginian. 'The rescue's director, AJ Springfield, has been untruthfully using my name as a veterinarian that deemed the kittens healthy after a 'thorough physical exam,'' the vet said. 'That information is in no way true.' PupSavers Rescue quarantined the remaining kittens. The rescue declined to comment beyond what they posted on Facebook, but did leave one comment on a post asking for sources for this story. 'We aren't exactly hiding anything,' PupSavers wrote in their post. 'Every kitten that was adopted out has come straight from the shelter with their first shot and deworming. One of the shelter vets examined these kittens in person on Saturday at our last adoption event. The kittens that have died showed no symptoms of anything were fine and then died. We made a public post about this, but some people making comments about dead kittens didn't even adopt from us. We have been in touch with many local vets as well as our own. No one knows exactly what happened but none of the kittens that we have quarantined here have passed away.' They noted they offered a replacement kitten to one of the people who lost their kitten. PupSavers confirmed at least eight kittens had died. However, they said claims that multiple kittens died from panleukopenia was 'flat out untrue.' They said the only thing they could confirm was the presence of coccidia, which causes 'diarrhea with weight loss, dehydration, and (rarely) hemorrhage,' according to They also said some of the people who complained online had their kittens over two weeks and never sought vet care or contacted the rescue either. 'No rescue or Humane Society, shelter or otherwise, would knowingly adopt anything if there was even the slightest suggestion that there could be something wrong,' PupSavers wrote. 'This isn't anyone's fault — all we can do is be as transparent as we can and share the information as we receive it. At least we tried to assist the shelters and give these kittens hope and a chance at a home instead of euthanasia.' On June 5, PupSavers posted an update. They confirmed the presence of panleukopenia after a necropsy. The pointed out the difficulty of diagnosing the disease, because fecal swabs had come back negative. Only a necropsy revealed the virus after the animal died. Marion County Humane Society Director Jona Spatafore said panleukopenia is one of the scariest diseases to contract for kittens because of how contagious it is. Kittens are especially susceptible to it if the mother wasn't vaccinated for the virus, which is especially true for strays. As a result, a kitten has no immunity to the disease until a vaccination regimen starts once they're old enough. She also said kittens, and olders cats even, are sensitive to change. They can be perfectly healthy in a rescue or shelter environment, but pop up with a respiratory infection a few days after moving into a new place. Spatafore said new pet owners should call a veterinarian as soon as they adopt an animal as best practice, so the vet can establish a baseline. She also said pet owners should look for crust around the eyes and nose, ulcers in the mouth, and check to see if they look boney and if they have a runny stool. 'Are they playing, are they laying?' she said. 'It's not always best to pick the kittens laying there real calm because they might be real calm because they don't feel good.' She confirmed panleukopenia can't be tested for until an animal shows symptoms. She also urged potential adopters to ask for vet records and to ask what tests and vaccines the animal has had, as well as diet. Ashley Reed, scam coordinator at the West Virginia Attorney General's Office, said potential pet adopters should research the seller or organization through the Better Business Bureau, and check with the Secretary of State's Office for Business Licensing. The Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division can also check if their office has received complaints about a business. They also recommended reading reviews from third party sources. 'If someone is scammed, a seller doesn't come through as promised, or, as in this unfortunate situation, the animals don't survive — they can report that to our consumer protection division,' Kallie Moore, a spokesperson with the Attorney General's office said. 'That number is 1-800-368-8808.' Pupsavers denying refunds was a major source of anger. Spatafore is no stranger to these situations, which are an unfortunate part of working in animal welfare. She said in these kinds of situations, she refunds the money and offers a replacement kitten. But after what happened, a replacement kitten is the last thing some people wanted. 'My mom's traumatized,' Rose said. 'She cried and cried and cried. She can't. He offered us another cat, and she absolutely wants nothing to do with it.'
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Clarksburg labor union to pay nearly $270k to settle federal PPP claims
CLARKSBURG, (WBOY) — A Clarksburg-based labor union will pay $269,995.83 to settle federal allegations of making 'false claims' under the Paycheck Protection Program. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 596 applied for and obtained loans that it wasn't eligible for under the pandemic-era program. The Paycheck Protection Program is part of the CARES Act, which provided emergency financial assistance to Americans suffering economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The program provided loans to eligible small businesses for job retention and other expenses, and applicants had to certify their eligibility in order to receive the loans. Three other unions based in New York, Washington and California are also part of the settlement, which adds up to more than $5.1 million. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
City planning approves BOE request tied to new Suncrest Middle School
Apr. 14—MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown Planning Commission has signed off on a request from the Monongalia County Board of Education regarding the future site of a new Suncrest Middle School. The commission approved a subdivision request to split a 13-acre parcel off the 192-acre parcel that once included the West Virginia University poultry farm. The property is located off Research Park Road and sits directly behind Sundale Nursing Home. The newly formed parcel is part of the approximately 17 acres of "pad ready " land purchased by the BOE from WVU for $4 million late last year for the purpose of building a new Suncrest Middle School. The remaining four acres obtained by the BOE is a separate, adjacent parcel that, due to the seemingly random nature of the city's boundaries, is located outside of Morgantown and included in the county's West Run Planning District. According to attorney Robert Shuman, who represented the BOE before the planning commission, the BOE will likely request to have that smaller property annexed into the city at some point and the entire 17 acres consolidated into a single parcel. The construction of a new Suncrest Middle School has an anticipated project cost of $33, 965, 932 to be split between the district and the School Building Authority of West Virginia. The SBA announced in December that it was awarding Monongalia County Schools $16, 956, 966 to be provided in two payments — $11, 400, 437 in fiscal year 2025 and $5, 582, 529 in fiscal year 2026. The BOE hired Williamson Shriver Architects out of Charleston to design the new school and lead the construction project. The original section of the current Suncrest Middle School building on Baldwin Street was built in 1939. It underwent six major additions between 1953 and 2016, including a renovation in 1994 that doubled the school's square footage. According to an SBA report on the old school's condition, a worrying number of stress cracks have formed throughout the building in recent years resulting in significant movement within the structure. In March, the BOE approved a $115, 402 contract with Clarksburg-based City Construction to demolish one section — three rooms — of the building.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Yahoo
Police say Facebook posts of missing officer are fake
CLARKSBURG, (WBOY) — A social media post claiming that a police officer is missing out of Clarksburg has been making the rounds over the past few days, but officials said it's all fake. 12 News first learned of this case Thursday evening when a post in a Uniontown, Pa.-based Facebook group was sent our way that claimed a local officer named Marrie-Anne Hendrix has been missing since Wednesday morning and 'may be in EXTREME danger.' 12 News contacted the Uniontown Police Department, which said the post was fake. A few hours later, 12 News discovered another post made in a Clarksburg-based group with the same pictures claiming the officer was missing out of Clarksburg and that her name was Kathleen Ballinger. 87 arrested in Marion County-based drug bust, more arrests pending So who even is this woman? Her real name is Kennedy Ballinger, and she is a real officer with the Middletown Division of Police (MDP) in Middletown, Ohio. The MDP acknowledged the fake posts Thursday afternoon, where it detailed how Ballinger and another officer have been the focus of a mass scam in which fake accounts are made and post messages in 'buy here sell here' Facebook groups claiming that the officers are missing. Do yourself a favor and do some digging before re-sharing the post. If it's legit, you would see it right here on our page or see it on the news wherever you live. The easiest thing to look for is if the comments have been turned off. You could also do a reverse image search on Google and see how many times the photo was used in a post or ad and see the different cities that were tagged. These particular posts spread like wildfire, we ask that you report them as you see them. Thank you and be aware!! Middletown Division of Police Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
