Welcome to Citrus Heights Patch

Welcome to Citrus Heights Patch! Our goal is to make your life ridiculously easy by giving you a place to post and find useful information about where you live. We want Patch to be the place you come to for a conversation with your neighbors, where you check on what’s going on around town, what your friends are up to, and where the best places are to shop, eat and play.

These days, a lot of websites make those kinds of promises, but Patch has proven it knows what it's doing when it comes to local information and commerce. We have 870 Patch sites around the country, including Sacramento-area sites in Fair Oaks-Carmichael, Roseville, Rosemont, Elk Grove and Davis.

We've also got trained, professional journalists working alongside you to keep you and your neighbors informed about issues in town.

It's easy. Just sign up for the site (yes, it's free!), subscribe to our newsletter (delivered to your email daily, weekly and/or when news is breaking) and you're ready to go.

What You Can Do on Patch

Citrus Heights Patch is a site for you – the reader. The Citrus Heights Patch team will be keeping you up to date on what’s going on in Citrus Heights, but we also want your help.

If you own a business here, it may already be listed in our free directory. Please be sure to to use our cool tools for business owners. (And if it's missing, you can add it.) If you're looking for a restaurant or service, you can search for it in the directory. And if you're happy with an establishment, post a review or rate it.

If you know of an upcoming event, we have you covered there, as well. Go to the Events section and click “Add An Event.” We often feature public events on our home page and in our newsletter, so be sure to post a photo and/or video. We also host a .

Do you have a wedding or engagement to announce or some news to share about a high school graduate or scholarship winner? Then post a short write-up in our Announcements section, which also allows families to post free obituaries.

Do you have a lot more to say about life in Citrus Heights? Are you following local government, or are you an active PTA member? Got a hobby you'd like to share with your neighbors? Then become a blogger for Citrus Heights Patch. We welcome your voice and your views.

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And just to make sure you're always connected to your Citrus Heights Patch, please like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @CitHeightsPatch.

Who’s Behind Citrus Heights Patch?

Citrus Heights Patch is led by a team of local editors including myself and Joshua Staab.

I got my start in journalism as an intern with Sactown magazine shortly after I graduated from Chico State with a journalism degree. From there I became a reporter for the Roseville Press Tribune and about a year later became the associate editor of The Placer Herald newspaper in Rocklin. For the last year, I’ve been the editor of nearby Roseville Patch.

Josh is a multimedia journalist and graduate of California State University, Sacramento. He has freelanced for a variety of Sacramento-based newspapers and magazines, including Sactown magazine (where he and I worked together), The Folsom Telegraph and The Roseville Press Tribune. He was most recently writing full-time for a healthcare trade publication in the Bay Area. While a student at Sacramento State, he served in many capacities on the college's student-run newspaper, The State Hornet. Josh is currently the editor of the Fair Oaks-Carmichael Patch site.

Josh and I, along with a team of freelancers and other editors, hope to make Citrus Heights Patch the place for local conversation, where you can read about news in your community and much more.

If you have any questions about Citrus Heights Patch, feel free to leave a comment below. You can also reach out to us at citrusheights@patch.com.