Nevada County is known for being beautiful with its peaceful scenery, free-range wildlife, and friendly community. It also has almost 20 rivers flowing through it, including the Yuba River, which is a popular site for locals and tourists alike. However, enjoying the river comes with risks and visitors should do so safely. In a phone interview with Nevada County Sheriff Shannon Moon on March 27, she said, “If we’re not patrolling it, there’s tragedy.”
In this 3:25 video, reporter Tyler Williams highlights the impact Therapy Dogs can have on students’ mental health at Sierra College. Every Tuesday in the library, students have the opportunity to connect with friendly therapy dogs. This gives students a break from studying and some comfort.
On March 3rd, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an Executive Order requiring that California State workers return to work, from working remotely at home, to in person four days a week, effective July 1st, 2025. The Order will continue to offer case-by-case telework exceptions, if necessary. It also includes a goal to hire former federal workers along with firefighters and forest service staff seeking employment throughout this transition.
Given everything that occurs on campus, it can be easy to forget how much planning goes into scheduling, organizing and running each individual event. These tasks are assigned to senate members of the Associated Students of Sierra College, or the ASSC.
In these four short videos, reporter and producer Tyler Williams spotlights events in fall 2024 on Sierra College’s Rocklin campus. Each video is less than 2-minutes and touches on student voice and community engagement.
Combat sports have gained popularity in recent years, particularly among college students. With this recent rise in interest, Sierra College students might be curious about what kind of changes combat sports could bring to their lives. In this 7:16 min. video, reporter H.A. Garcia visits Main Event Muay Thai & Kickboxing, a Muay Thai gym located in the Northgate/Gardenland area of Sacramento.
In this 4:51 video, reporter Tyler Williams covers views on voting in the upcoming 2024 election and voting sites on campus and in our community. Williams finds out what people think about how their vote matters.
Over the past decade, the fentanyl epidemic has emerged as a critical public health crisis in the United States. According to USAFacts.org, overdoses from the drug have claimed over 330,000 lives since 2012, devastating communities large and small in the process. In Northern California, the powerful synthetic opioid’s impact has been acutely felt in Placer and Nevada counties. Despite their similarities, the county neighbors have adopted markedly different approaches to combat the life-or-death crisis.
On Feburary 23rd, 2024 Thunderhill Raceway was alive with the pulse of racing engines and the buzz of excitement. Amidst the electrifying atmosphere, 19-year-old welding prodigy and Sierra College student, Erica Snow, takes center stage and defies all odds.
The world of sports is full of heart-racing competition and moments, from the excitement that comes when a soccer player scores a goal to a double play on the baseball diamond. These are some of the things fans and athletes live for. They fuel the passion and enjoyment that comes from sports. Moments like these are captured in media highlights and can add to engagement, but there is a longer story that goes on outside these few minute highlights.
For most people an injury is just an inconvenience. Something that slows them down for a few weeks, or maybe a couple months, though rarely does it end their career. Athletes, however, do not qualify as “most people.”
Despite frequent conditioning and training, athletes are not immune to injury. Instead, it seems the harrowed “injury bug” haunts both professional and amateur athletes. “Injuries are starting to become a bigger part of the game,” Tyler Kersey, a Sierra College sophomore baseball player, said during an interview on March 18. He continued, “You see it a lot in pitchers, [especially] arm injuries.”
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When a new semester of college begins students everywhere deal with a familiar problem: a lack of parking. When the Fall 2023 semester began at Sierra College’s Rocklin campus, students were faced with the same problem, but this time with a twist. Large swaths of student parking were off-limits due to construction.
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