Calaveras County Submits Readiness Plan for Reopening Businesses

Calaveras County Submits Readiness Plan for Reopening Businesses

San Andreas, CA…Calaveras County officials submitted the State required local attestation to move further into Stage 2 of Reopening as part of the State’s variance process. Last week the public Health Officer rescinded the local Calaveras County stay-at-home order, but the residents of Calaveras are still subject to the current statewide order. “The people of […]

Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Are Back in Action This Morning

Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Are Back in Action This Morning

San Andreas, CA…Calaveras County Board of Supervisors re Back in Action This Morning. The full agenda is is below… Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting 5/12/2020 9:00 AM Board of Supervisors Chambers 891 Mountain Ranch Road   San Andreas, CA 95249 Downloads:  Agenda  Agenda Packet  Video Call to Order To give public comment, call one of the following phone […]

Telsa Files Lawsuit in Federal Court in Battle to Restart Production

Telsa Files Lawsuit in Federal Court in Battle to Restart Production

Palo Alto, CA…Tesla released the following yesterday on their reopening efforts and lawsuit filed…”Tesla is the last major carmaker remaining in California, and the largest manufacturing employer in the State with more than 10,000 employees at our Fremont factory and 20,000 statewide. We understand the impacts COVID-19 has caused and have a responsibility to look […]

FDA Authorizes First Antigen Test to Help in the Rapid Detection of the Virus that Causes COVID-19 in Patients

FDA Authorizes First Antigen Test to Help in the Rapid Detection of the Virus that Causes COVID-19 in Patients

White Oak, MD…The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued the first emergency use authorization (EUA) for a COVID-19 antigen test, a new category of tests for use in the ongoing pandemic. These diagnostic tests quickly detect fragments of proteins found on or within the virus by testing samples collected from the nasal cavity using swabs. The […]

Musk Threatens to Move Tesla out of California after Alameda County Blocks Plant Reopening

Musk Threatens to Move Tesla out of California after Alameda County Blocks Plant Reopening

Fremont, CA…Elon Musk on Twitter this morning…”Tesla is filing a lawsuit against Alameda County immediately. The unelected & ignorant “Interim Health Officer” of Alameda is acting contrary to the Governor, the President, our Constitutional freedoms & just plain common sense! Photo By Steve Jurvetson Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its […]

Governor Newsom Issues Executive Order on Extending Deadlines Impacted by COVID-19

Governor Newsom Issues Executive Order on Extending Deadlines Impacted by COVID-19

Sacramento, CA…Governor Gavin Newsom today issued an executive order that extends some critical deadlines that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The executive order extends deadlines for certification requirements for public school project inspectors who previously passed an initial evaluation, as well as Certified Access Specialists who ensure compliance with disability access in properties […]

Judge Holds Landowner Liable for Cannabis Cultivation-Related Environmental Crimes

Judge Holds Landowner Liable for Cannabis Cultivation-Related Environmental Crimes

Sacramento, CA…A California judge recently ordered a Calaveras County property owner liable for damages after their tenant committed environmental crimes in conjunction with a cannabis operation. Poorly designed culvert impacts fish and wildlife downstream. Under Fish and Game Code section 12025, civil penalties can be levied against a landowner or occupant who has violated one […]

Governor Newsom Issues Executive Order to Mail Every Registered Voter a Ballot Ahead of the November General Election

Governor Newsom Issues Executive Order to Mail Every Registered Voter a Ballot Ahead of the November General Election

Sacramento, CA…Recognizing the threat COVID-19 continues to pose to public health, Governor Gavin Newsom today signed an executive order to ensure that Californians can exercise their right to vote in a safe and accessible manner during the General Election this November. The order requires that each county’s elections officials send vote-by-mail ballots for the November […]

Calaveras County Health Officer Rescinds Local Order and Clarifies What Local Businesses Can Reopen Today

Calaveras County Health Officer Rescinds Local Order and Clarifies What Local Businesses Can Reopen Today

San Andreas, CA…On Friday, May 8, 2020, the Calaveras County Health Officer rescinded the Local Public Health Order and Emergency Regulations. This latest move results from Governor Gavin Newsom’s May 7, 2020 announcement that the State will be entering Stage 2 of the re-opening plan beginning on May 8, 2020. Stage 2 authorizes some low […]

Worst Single Month Jobs Report in History as Unemployment Soars to 14.7 Percent

Worst Single Month Jobs Report in History as Unemployment Soars to 14.7 Percent

Washington, DC…Total nonfarm payroll employment fell by 20.5 million in April, and the unemployment rate rose to 14.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The changes in these measures reflect the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and efforts to contain it. Employment fell sharply in all major industry sectors, with particularly […]

Lake Camanche and Lake Pardee to Reopen with Modifications

Lake Camanche and Lake Pardee to Reopen with Modifications

Amador County, CA – Amador County Public Health has worked in collaboration with Amador County Environmental Health and Calaveras Department of Public Health to approve re-opening of both Lake Camanche and Lake Pardee with modified operations on May 8, 2020 for residents. Both concessionaires, Basecamp Hospitality and Rocky Mountain Recreation Company, in collaboration with East […]

Governor Newsom Releases Updated Business Reopening Guidance

Governor Newsom Releases Updated Business Reopening Guidance

Sacramento, CA…Guidance will help drive reopening for some sectors – including retail, manufacturing and logistics – with modifications, beginning Friday, May 8. Regional variance allows for counties to move further into Stage 2 when they attest to meeting certain criteria. Following up on the state’s announcement that it will begin modifying the stay at home […]

The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors & Angels City Council Meeting Today

The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors & Angels City Council Meeting Today

San Andreas & Angels Camp, CA…The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors & Angels City Council Meeting Today. The Full Agenda is enclosed and click on the image below for the live stream. Board of Supervisors Special Meeting 5/7/2020 3:00 PM Board of Supervisors Chambers 891 Mountain Ranch Road   San Andreas, CA 95249   Downloads:  Agenda  Agenda Packet […]

Biomass Utilization Fund has $17 million to Finance Tuolumne County businesses

Biomass Utilization Fund has $17 million to Finance Tuolumne County businesses

West Sacramento, Calif. — The Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC), and Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) are pleased to announce a new $17 million program that will provide loans to increase the use of low- and no-value wood from Tuolumne County forests and provide an alternative to pile burning of forest waste. […]

New Temporary Emergency Closures on the Eldorado National Forest 

New Temporary Emergency Closures on the Eldorado National Forest 

Placerville, CA…New temporary emergency closures are now in effect for high use areas where there are safety hazards associated with down trees, and other fire-related hazards in the Caples Fire burned area such as fire weakened trees, stump holes and loose rocks. All uses, including hiking, are temporarily prohibited for areas specified in the new […]

Board of Governors Announces Selection of Louis DeJoy to Serve as Nation’s 75th Postmaster General

Board of Governors Announces Selection of Louis DeJoy to Serve as Nation’s 75th Postmaster General

Washington, DC…The Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service today announced its unanimous selection of Louis DeJoy to serve as the 75th Postmaster General of the United States and Chief Executive Officer of the world’s largest postal organization. DeJoy is an accomplished business executive with more than 35 years of experience. As Chairman […]

Sinclair Broadcasting Group Agrees to Pay Largest Civil Penalty Ever by a Broadcaster

Sinclair Broadcasting Group Agrees to Pay Largest Civil Penalty Ever by a Broadcaster

Washington, DC…The Federal Communications Commission today announced the largest civil penalty involving a broadcaster in the agency’s 86-year history. Specifically, Sinclair Broadcasting Group has agreed to pay a $48 million civil penalty and abide by a strict compliance plan in order to close three open investigations. This penalty is twice the prior record for a […]

Joint Country & City Effort to Provide Covid-19 Business Recovery Support

Joint Country & City Effort to Provide Covid-19 Business Recovery Support

San Andreas, CA…City and County Economic & Community Development, Public Health, and Calaveras County Chamber of Commerce staff are working collaboratively to develop a tool kit aimed at helping businesses to reopen safely when appropriate. The tool kit will a “living” document that will evolve as regulatory circumstances change. The “ReThink, ReOpen and ReBound” campaign […]

Governor Newsom Announces Enhanced Workers’ Compensation Benefits & Extends Property Tax Deadliness

Governor Newsom Announces Enhanced Workers’ Compensation Benefits & Extends Property Tax Deadliness

Sacramento, CA…As California prepares to enter Stage 2 of the gradual reopening of the state this Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that workers who contract COVID-19 while on the job may be eligible to receive workers’ compensation. The Governor signed an executive order that creates a time-limited rebuttable presumption for accessing workers’ compensation benefits applicable […]

Governor Must Allow Houses of Worship to Reopen in Stage 2 to Assist Californians

Governor Must Allow Houses of Worship to Reopen in Stage 2 to Assist Californians

Sacramento, CA…Today, Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) and Senator Mike Morrell (R-Rancho Cucamonga) issued statements after delivering a letter to Governor Newsom urging him to allow Houses of Worship to reopen as part of California’s Stage 2. Members of the Senate and Assembly Republican Caucuses signed on to the letter which media can read here. Stage 2 is part of […]

New Lodi Testing Site for COVID-19 Open to All Calaveras Residents

New Lodi Testing Site for COVID-19 Open to All Calaveras Residents

Lodi, CA…People living in Calaveras County can now schedule a COVID-19 test at a new testing center in Lodi. The state of California teamed up with OptumServe to open 80 new testing sites across the state to expand and offer more testing. Individuals will be billed through their health insurance. Tests will be paid by […]

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Been Hospitalized

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Been Hospitalized

Washington, DC…Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent non-surgical treatment for acute cholecystitis, a benign gallbladder condition, this afternoon at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Following oral arguments on Monday, the Justice underwent outpatient tests at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., that confirmed she was suffering from a gallstone that had migrated to her […]