Community Message: Drop the Drugs Event – December 15th 4pm-7pm

Community Message: Drop the Drugs Event – December 15th 4pm-7pm

San Andreas Ca A “Drop the Drugs” event is being presented through funding from the Anti-Drug Abuse Justice Assistance Grant. The service is free and anonymous; no questions asked. Calaveras County community members can prevent prescription and other drug misuse and abuse by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous, expired, unused, and unwanted drug this […]

Make Murphys Nursery Your Gift Giving Headquarters

Make Murphys Nursery Your Gift Giving Headquarters

Murphys, CA….Murphys Nursery is the perfect place to shop for holiday decorating, gifts & more. Holiday Wreaths, Garden Baskets, Topiaries, Garden & Rustic Influenced Items, Live Christmas Trees, Christmas Decorations, Ornaments, Gift Certificates and much, much more. Murphys Nursery has been serving Calaveras County since 1986. Stop by and say hi to the Baker Family! […]

Make Murphys Nursery Your Gift Giving Headquarters

Make Murphys Nursery Your Gift Giving Headquarters

Murphys, CA….Murphys Nursery is the perfect place to shop for holiday decorating, gifts & more. Holiday Wreaths, Garden Baskets, Topiaries, Garden & Rustic Influenced Items, Live Christmas Trees, Christmas Decorations, Ornaments, Gift Certificates and much, much more. Murphys Nursery has been serving Calaveras County since 1986. Stop by and say hi to the Baker Family! […]

Make Murphys Nursery Your Gift Giving Headquarters

Make Murphys Nursery Your Gift Giving Headquarters

Murphys, CA….Murphys Nursery is the perfect place to shop for holiday decorating, gifts & more. Holiday Wreaths, Garden Baskets, Topiaries, Garden & Rustic Influenced Items, Live Christmas Trees, Christmas Decorations, Ornaments, Gift Certificates and much, much more. Murphys Nursery has been serving Calaveras County since 1986. Stop by and say hi to the Baker Family! […]

Ribbon-cutting Ceremony to Celebrate the Columbia College Calaveras County Outreach Site

Ribbon-cutting Ceremony to Celebrate the Columbia College Calaveras County Outreach Site

Vallecito, CA…On Tuesday, December 1, 2015, Columbia College held a ribbon cutting ceremony for its new Calaveras Outreach facility in Vallecito. Joining the ceremony were members of the Calaveras Chamber of Commerce and Executive Director – Staci Johnston, Calaveras Board of Supervisors, Chair – Cliff Edson and member Debbie Ponte, Calaveras County Superintendent of Schools, […]

“Dinner With A Scientist” Celebrated The Love Of STEM

“Dinner With A Scientist” Celebrated The Love Of STEM

San Andreas, CA….Students who came to dinner at Calaveras River Academy on November 19 not only got to eat a special meal, they got to learn how their bodies were processing every single bite. “Dinner with a Scientist” brought together 16 local and regional scientists with 20 teachers and 61 students from Calaveras and Amador […]

Butte Fire Victim Relief Needs List 12 5 2015

Butte Fire Victim Relief Needs List 12 5 2015

Railroad Flat Ca. The Friends of Rail Road Flat School Butte Fire Relief Efforts a 501c3 that is working directly with the Butte Fire Victims through their Donation Center and their Mobile Donation Van in working hard 7 days a week to help in any way they can the Butte Fire Victims who are still […]

Murphys to Markleeville – “The Schedule” – December 4 to December 12

Murphys to Markleeville – “The Schedule” – December 4 to December 12

Arnold, CA…“The Schedule” is published every Thursday by the Bear’s Lair and includes everything happening from Murphys to Markleeville.  For more detailed info visit The Schedule.  Please come by and pick one up or contact Bear’s Lair at info@epvc.org to have your event included in “The Schedule.”     The Schedule Murphys to Markleeville December 4 – December 12 […]

Ric (The Walking Man) & Joanne Ryan Make Generous Donation To Angels Camp’s K-9 Replacement Fund

Ric (The Walking Man) & Joanne Ryan Make Generous Donation To Angels Camp’s K-9 Replacement Fund

Angels Camp, CA…On 12-02-15 the Angels Camp Police Department K-9 Association received a very generous donation to the replacement K-9 fund. Ric and Joanne Ryan decided to donate $1,000.00 to the fund. You may recall that Ric is also known as “The Walking Man,” and that he raises and donates money to assist Veterans that […]

Amador County: Board of Supervisors Meeting

Amador County: Board of Supervisors Meeting

Jackson Ca Board of Supervisors Meeting Date:12/08/2015 9:00 AM Location:Board of Supervisors Chambers 810 Court Street Jackson, California 95642 Agenda:December 8, 2015 Regular Agenda Agenda:December 8, 2015 _Consent Agenda Agenda:December 8, 2015_Consent Packet_3A to 7D Agenda:December 8, 2015_Consent Packet_7E Agenda:December 8, 2015 Regular Agenda Packet Informationo To view this email, including any attached documents, click […]

Christmas In White Pines Parade Of Lights & Christmas Tree

Christmas In White Pines Parade Of Lights & Christmas Tree

White Pines, CA…The Inaugural Christmas in White Pines Celebration & Parade of Lights was held on November 27. The Parade lighted Blagen Rd. as it rolled towards White Pines Park. Attendees were invited to stroll down Blagen Rd and enjoy the 75′ Christmas Tree. Blagen Rd was decorated in Lights. Christmas Carols by the Big […]

December 2015 California Department of Fish and Wildlife Calendar

December 2015 California Department of Fish and Wildlife Calendar

Sacramento Ca Weekends — Sandhill Crane Wetland Tour at the Woodbridge Ecological Reserve. CDFW docent-led public tours are available to view greater and lesser sandhill cranes at Woodbridge Ecological Reserve outside of Lodi, W Woodbridge Road (95242). Self-guided tours are also available and are enhanced with interpretive panels. For more information about tour times, please […]

Mountain Ranch Cold Weather Sanctuary To Open

Mountain Ranch Cold Weather Sanctuary To Open

Mountain Ranch Ca. A Nixle Alert has just been sent out for the Out Of The Weather Shelter at the Mountain Ranch Community Hall to open this coming Thursday and Friday Night respectively from 6pm to 7am. Advisory: Shelter A shelter will be open at Mountain Ranch Community Hall 8049 Washington St Mt Ranch 12/3/15 […]

Out of the Weather Rally Will Be December 3rd.

Out of the Weather Rally Will Be December 3rd.

Mountain Ranch, CA…This Thursday, December 3, 2015 and Friday December 4, 2015 Mountain Ranch Community Relief Efforts will be hosting our first of many “Out of the Weather Rally(s)” from 6pm to 7am, overnighto bring their own crates. Some crates will be on hand for those in need.c and access to communication. Future Rally(s) will […]

The Zuckerbergs Pen Letter To Their Newborn Daughter

The Zuckerbergs Pen Letter To Their Newborn Daughter

Palo Alto, CA…Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg are now Mom & Dad and have welcomed their daughter into the world with a letter. “Dear Max, Your mother and I don’t yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future. Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you will […]

DOJ & DOT issue Joint ADA Technical Assistance on Requirements To Provide Curb Ramps

DOJ & DOT issue Joint ADA Technical Assistance on Requirements To Provide Curb Ramps

Washington DC Today, the U.S. Department  of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (DOT) issued joint technical assistance, entitled “Questions and Answers: Supplement to the 2013 DOJ/DOT Joint Technical Assistance on the Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act Requirements To Provide Curb Ramps when Streets, […]

Avery Christmas Tree Leads The Way

Avery Christmas Tree Leads The Way

Avery, CA…The Annual Avery Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony was held on the night after Thanksgiving and featured seemingly the entire population of one of our local hamlets. The Christmas Tree Committee put together another great event with Santa, cookies, baked goods, coffee & cocoa. The Saul’s were honored as local residents and then the countdown […]

The Amelia McKeen Memorial Library Dedication

The Amelia McKeen Memorial Library Dedication

Avery, CA…On Friday, November 13th The Amelia McKeen Memorial Library was dedicated and unveiled. Ms. McKeen lost a heroic battle with cancer a few weeks before the end of last school year. She instilled in her students the thrill of learning, joy in the quest for knowledge, love of reading and the example of putting […]

Out Of The Weather Rally Butte Fire Survivors Dec 3rd and 4th ~ Letter To Editor By Charles Dudley Jr.

Out Of The Weather Rally Butte Fire Survivors Dec 3rd and 4th ~ Letter To Editor By Charles Dudley Jr.

Mountain Ranch Ca. Out of ashes and the cold comes forth a group of Private Citizens working under the banner of “Mountain Ranch Community Relief Efforts” bringing together concerned Butte Fire Volunteers and the Victims themselves to open a tiny Over Night Weather Shelter in the Mountain Ranch Town Hall for the sole purpose of giving any Butte Fire […]

Bear Valley’s 2015-2016 Season Kicks Off This Weekend With Winterfest

Bear Valley’s 2015-2016 Season Kicks Off This Weekend With Winterfest

Bear Valley, CA….Bear Valley Cross Country started their 2015/16 season off with 17 trails that opened today. Tomorrow Bear Valley Mountain will have wheels turning for the public starting at 9am. So head on up and get the season started off. Tonight is Movie Night at 7pm in the Cathedral Lounge – Backcountry Film Festival […]

Emergency Temporary Shelter Opens And Closes In Mountain Ranch For Butte Fire Victims – Updated

Emergency Temporary Shelter Opens And Closes In Mountain Ranch For Butte Fire Victims – Updated

Mountain Ranch Ca Shelter Update 4:30am 11/25/2015 After 5 hours only of being opened the Red Cross has decided to close this shelter. The initial planning was faulty from the beginning. Once this storm front was known to come in the Red Cross should have had plans in place working with the Calaveras County OES […]

Want To Remember New Names? Sleep On It

Want To Remember New Names? Sleep On It

Boston, MA…A new study by investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) offers an additional reason to get a good night’s sleep. In a closely controlled study of fourteen participants, researchers found that they were significantly better at remembering faces and names if they were given an opportunity to sleep for up to eight hours […]

EPHA to Honor Bear Valley Ski Patrol, Peter Hayes and the NDF at Annual Event in December

EPHA to Honor Bear Valley Ski Patrol, Peter Hayes and the NDF at Annual Event in December

Bear Valley, CA…The Ebbetts Pass Historical Association (EPHA) has announced plans for their annual presentation, WinterSports History Night, scheduled on December 12, 2015. This year’s program will feature retrospectives on the Nickolay Dodov Foundation, former Bear Valley professional ski patroller and photographer Peter Hayes and the Bear Valley Chapter of the National Ski Patrol System.. […]

Sierra Photo & Framing In Arnold Is Ready To Serve & Expand Under New Ownership

Sierra Photo & Framing In Arnold Is Ready To Serve & Expand Under New Ownership

Arnold, CA…It is with great excitement to announce as of November 1, 2015, Sierra Photo & Framing in Arnold will continue their business under new ownership. Ron and Sonja Cooper will succeed the thirty years of business that Steve and Judy Mayo have provided in the area. Without their consistent enthusiasm for the business and […]