Snapshots of Citrus Heights by means of our photographers’ lenses – Citrus Heights Sentinel

By Sara Beth Williams–
Through the lenses of our workers and freelance photographers, The Sentinel has coated hundreds of native tales on enterprise, crime, civic, group, non secular and faculty district information since 2014.

Out of greater than 700 tales reported in 2025, these 15 images seize among the most impactful moments and significant occasions seen by means of the lenses of our photographers.

After the main nationwide retail firm launched an inventory of shops that have been anticipated to shut, The Sentinel coated the journey towards impending closure of Macy’s Men’s and Women’s at Sunrise Mall, together with the closure’s influence on the remainder of Sunrise Mall within the months that adopted. The iconic anchor first opened at Sunrise Mall within the 1980’s and closed formally in March 2025. See full story right here.

After a slew of closures in 2024, and with the approaching closure of Macy’s at Sunrise Mall looming, California Basic house owners posted a “We’re Not Closing” check in entrance of their storefront in March 2025. See full story right here.

In May, groundbreaking passed off on a significant stadium revitalization challenge at San Juan High School, which hasn’t had an up to date stadium in a long time. The new stadium will likely be much like the brand new stadium at Mesa Verde High School, accomplished in 2023, though the bleachers at San Juan High will stay. Mesa Verde High by no means had a stadium previous to 2023 and its soccer crew shared San Juan’s previous stadium for many years. See full story right here.

Last summer season, Mark’s Hallmark introduced it will be closing its Sunrise Mall location on the finish of July.  The Hallmark retailer has existed inside Sunrise Mall in some format for the reason that 1980’s. Mark’s Hallmark has a second location on Douglas Avenue that continues to be open. See full story right here.

Habitat for Humanity broke floor on the Sayonara housing challenge in June 2025, one in all its greatest housing tasks for the nonprofit up to now. The housing challenge will consequence within the building of 26 everlasting houses that low-income households can apply to buy, serving to to finish cycles of generational poverty, Habitat’s CEO stated. See full story right here.

The web site of the previous Marie Callender’s restaurant on Sunrise Boulevard was demolished in August and September, leaving nothing however the basis. The constructing had been vacant for 5 years following Marie Callender’s’ closure, and the inside had been enormously broken attributable to persistent homelessness. See full story right here.

Infinity Jewelers was amongst 5 extra shops that left Sunrise Mall on the finish of October 2025. See full story right here.

Beto’s Tacos proprietor Hortencia Molina shared with The Sentinel the struggles her restaurant has confronted through the Auburn Boulevard Complete Streets building challenge. See full story right here.

A mural painted at DarkHeart Brewing in the summertime, together with one other mural on the wall of Ciro’s Pizza, served to launch the start of a brand new Citrus Heights Arts District, based by nonprofit Citrus Heights Arts and formally adopted by the City Council later within the yr. See full story right here.

The Sunrise Recreation and Park District marked a significant milestone of 75 years with a group jubilee occasion on Oct. 4 that stuffed Rusch Park with reside music, meals, distributors, and lights, and highlighted the lengthy native historical past of the Rusch household. See full story right here.

Co-founder of the Veterans Community Center on Sylvan Road, Rounsavell handed away within the fall of 2025 after coping with constant well being points. Jeanne’s husband, Jim Rounsevall, handed away in 2021. A memorial on the veterans group heart was held in Jeanne’s honor in September. See full story right here.

The Pastor household made the tough choice to promote a family-owned gasoline station that had been a outstanding fixture in Citrus Heights for 50 years. Freelancer Mike Hazlip coated the elimination of the long-lasting Ford Model A from the gasoline station’s ceiling. See full story right here.

Santa’s Workshop at Sunrise Mall moved right into a vacant retailer through the 2025 vacation season. after a long time of being arrange within the grand hall of the Sunrise Mall in entrance of JCPenney, accompanied by a two-story excessive Christmas tree. The transfer from the central hall additional exasperated the notion of dismal decline at Sunrise Mall. See full story right here.

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