Garden Friends: Summer Vegetables & Annual Flowers

Garden Friends: Summer Vegetables & Annual Flowers

Jackson, CA…Spring is finally here! Are your thoughts turning to delicious, homegrown vegetables or a vase of colorful flowers from your garden? Please join the UCCE Master Gardeners of Amador County on Saturday, April 1, 2017 for “Garden Friends: Summer Vegetables and Annual Flowers”. Master Gardeners will identify local favorites and discuss care and maintenance […]

Building & Using A Hoop House – Rescheduled

Building & Using A Hoop House – Rescheduled

Amador County, CA…How would you like more control over the growing season? Do you want to harvest tomatoes year-round and grow lettuce for your salads in the hot summer? If so, then a Hoop House could be the perfect addition to your gardening area. Please join the UCCE Master Gardeners of Amador County on Saturday, […]

Board Of Supervisors Regular Meeting & Continuing Local State Of Emergency

Board Of Supervisors Regular Meeting & Continuing Local State Of Emergency

San Andreas, CA…The Calaveras County Board Of Supervisors is holding a regular meeting on Tuesday, March 28th at 8:00 p.m. On the agenda is the adoption of a resolution continuing a local state of emergency for the removal of hazardous trees caused by the Butte Fire with the imminent threat of severe winter weather. The […]

Honey Nut Cheerios Calls on Consumers to Plant 100 Million Wildflower Seeds to Support Pollinator Conservation

Honey Nut Cheerios Calls on Consumers to Plant 100 Million Wildflower Seeds to Support Pollinator Conservation

Minneapolis, MN…Shoppers may notice something unusual about the boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios on grocery store shelves this spring — “BuzzBee,” the brand’s iconic spokesbee, is missing and there’s a very important reason why. Buzz disappeared from boxes because there’s something serious going on with the world’s pollinators. Pollinators are critical to our environment. More […]

RobustWealth and Roofstock Announce Strategic Partnership at Lake Tahoe Conference

RobustWealth and Roofstock Announce Strategic Partnership at Lake Tahoe Conference

Olympic Valley, CA…Digital wealth platform provider RobustWealth and Roofstock (the first online marketplace created exclusively for investing in leased Single-Family Rental homes that generate cash flow day one) announced their planned product integration during the firms’ joint conference for investment advisors held at Squaw Valley ski resort. RobustWealth’s technology was developed for investment advisors to […]

CCWD Board Approves Five-Year Capital Improvement Program

CCWD Board Approves Five-Year Capital Improvement Program

The Calaveras County Water District Board of Directors unanimously approved a five-year Capital Improvement Program (CIP) on Wednesday March 22, which identifies the District’s highest-priority water and wastewater infrastructure projects. Click here to view a PowerPoint presentation that provides an overview of the program. Copperopolis Force Main Bypass “We appreciate the Board’s support throughout the […]

Black Oak Casino Resort To Host Live Entertainment Every Weekend In April

Black Oak Casino Resort To Host Live Entertainment Every Weekend In April

Tuolumne City, CA…Every weekend will be action packed this April as Black Oak Casino Resort continues to host live entertainment every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. A variety of musical styles and even a famed comedian will take to the Willow Creek Lounge stage throughout the month. The following is a complete list of all […]

Bundle, Shop Local & Save At Caltel!

Bundle, Shop Local & Save At Caltel!

Copperopolis, CA…In 1895 James A. Tower was only 16 years old when, using barbed wire fencing, he strung the first telephone line for what was to become The Calaveras Telephone Company. As demands for the telephone service increased, the young Mr. Tower found it necessary to establish a central office in the small community of […]

Calaveras Community Foundation Receives Save Mart Donation

Calaveras Community Foundation Receives Save Mart Donation

Angels Camp, CA…Calaveras Community Foundation (CCF) has received a generous $5000 donation from Save Mart Supermarkets. Funds benefit the Career and Technical Training (C&TT) Scholarship Fund. For the 6th year, Save Mart continues to support this scholarship fund and CCF applauds their on-going support. (left to right) Angels Camp Store Manager, John Romine, Assistant Store […]

Greenhorn Creek Golf Resort Men’s Club Results: Wednesday March 15th

Greenhorn Creek Golf Resort Men’s Club Results: Wednesday March 15th

Angels Camp,CA…Angels Camp, CA…As one of Northern California’s best golf courses and communities, Greenhorn Creek offers more of the fastest, truest greens in the state. The 18-hole course was redesigned by Robert Trent Jones II and along with Mother Nature; Greenhorn Creek delivers one of California’s finest golf experiences.  You’ll discover 18 holes of championship […]

Calaveras County Public Notice Ordinance Summary

Calaveras County Public Notice Ordinance Summary

Calaveras County, CA…On March 14, 2017, the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to introduce and waive reading of an ordinance amending County Code Chapter 13.12 (Sewage Disposal) by adding Section 13.12.200 – Annual Reporting and Section 13.12.210 – Permanent Records. The ordinance amendment will be agendized for adoption by the Board of Supervisors […]

Public Notice For Board Membership Applications

Public Notice For Board Membership Applications

Calaveras County, CA…NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, due to unscheduled vacancies and expiration of terms, the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors encourages interested and qualified persons to apply for membership to the following County boards, committees or commissions: Hardwood Advisory Committee One vacancy for a term expiring 12/31/18 – General Public Representative The Committee shall […]

Notice Of Intent To Adopt A Negative Declaration: Tentative Parcel Map For West Point Dollar General

Notice Of Intent To Adopt A Negative Declaration: Tentative Parcel Map For West Point Dollar General

West Point, CA…Lead Agency: Calaveras County Planning Department, 891 Mountain Ranch Rd., San Andreas, CA 95249 2016-002 Tentative Parcel Map for West Point Dollar General: The applicant is requesting approval of a Tentative Parcel Map to divide a 4.42-acre parcel into two (2) separate legal parcels. The vacant property has a General Plan land use […]

Trombonists Featured In Friends Of Music Concert April 9th

Trombonists Featured In Friends Of Music Concert April 9th

Pine Grove, CA…Two of the country’s leading trombonists are the featured artists in the next concert of the Mother Lode Friends of Music. The concert is Sunday, April 9 starting at 3 pm in the Pine Grove Community Church, 14045 Ponderosa Way, Pine Grove. Supported by its membership base, the Friends of Music offers this […]

Task Force Making Great Use Of Trees

Task Force Making Great Use Of Trees

Angels Camp, CA…The bark beetle has ravished our forests, wild lands and private ranches. Beloved trees have been killed by the pesky critter. However the Mortality Tree Task Force is milling these trees. The lumber is being donated to organizations like the Calaveras County Fairgrounds. We are grateful to Cal Fire and the Task Force […]

9th Annual Taste For Mentoring ~ Dessert Contest & Antique Auto Show

9th Annual Taste For Mentoring ~ Dessert Contest & Antique Auto Show

Sonora,CA…A Taste for Mentoring is a dessert contest showcasing creations from our county’s finest restaurants as a fund raiser for the Mentoring Works program. Mentoring Works matches caring adults in our community with at risk children under the guidance of the Amador Tuolumne Community Action Agency. A Taste for Mentoring Dessert Contest and Antique Auto […]

Senator Gaines Responds To Governor Circumventing Gann Limit

Senator Gaines Responds To Governor Circumventing Gann Limit

Sacramento, CA…Senator Ted Gaines (R-El Dorado) today issued the following statement regarding Governor Brown’s attempt to side-step the Gann Limit, which restricts California’s government spending to the 1978-79 level and only allows it to grow adjusted for inflation and population. Under the Gann Limit, state revenues above the voter-approved limit are required to be refunded […]