Healthcare Worker is New Case of COVID-19 Identified in Tuolumne County

Healthcare Worker is New Case of COVID-19 Identified in Tuolumne County

Sonora, CA…The Public Health Department was notified of a presumptive positive COVID-19 case in a Tuolumne County resident. The individual is a caregiver at Adventist Health Sonora’s skilled nursing facility, who is isolating at home. We will not be releasing the age and gender of the individual to protect their privacy as we are releasing […]

Could Social Media Destroy the World? ~ John Hamilton

Could Social Media Destroy the World? ~ John Hamilton

Arnold, CA…I have had a gnawing fear the last year that social media with all its benefits of instant gratification and at least the appearance of connectedness has a potentially catastrophic flaw. It has the ability to inspire mob like behavior almost instantly. Everything looks simple in a gif or a meme. Snippets of entire […]

Calaveras County Budget Hearings Continue Today

Calaveras County Budget Hearings Continue Today

San Andreas, CA…The Calaveras County Budget Hearings Continue Today. The Full Agenda is below… Board of Supervisors Continued Meeting 6/11/2020 10:00 AM Board of Supervisors Chambers 891 Mountain Ranch Road   San Andreas, CA 95249 Downloads:  Agenda  Agenda Packet Call to Order Roll Call To give public comment, call one of the following phone numbers. If you get […]

The Judicial Council of California Voted to End COVID-19 Bail Policies Effective June 20th

The Judicial Council of California Voted to End COVID-19 Bail Policies Effective June 20th

Sacramento, CA…The Judicial Council of California voted to end the COVID-19 emergency bail schedule, as California begins a phased re-opening and courts restore services shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The Judicial Council voted 17-2 to rescind, effective June 20, the COVID-19 temporary bail schedule that set presumptive bail at $0 for people accused of […]

Calaveras County Moves Into Stage 3 Beginning Friday June 12, 2020

Calaveras County Moves Into Stage 3 Beginning Friday June 12, 2020

San Andreas, CA…Beginning Friday June 12, 2020, Calaveras County will move into Stage 3 of the Roadmap to Recovery and reopen additional sectors of local businesses with measures to protect public health and safety. In addition to the existing sectors that have reopened with modifications as part of Stage 2 of the Roadmap to Recovery, […]

Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Back in Action Today as Budget Hearings Continue

Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Back in Action Today as Budget Hearings Continue

San Andreas, CA…Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Back in Action Today as Budget Hearings Continue. The full agenda is below… Board of Supervisors Continued Meeting 6/10/2020 9:00 AM Board of Supervisors Chambers 891 Mountain Ranch Road   San Andreas, CA 95249 Downloads:  Agenda  Agenda Packet  Video Call to Order Roll Call To give public comment, call one of […]

Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Had a Long Meeting with COVID-19, Budget & Much, Much More..

Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Had a Long Meeting with COVID-19, Budget & Much, Much More..

San Andreas, CA…Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Had a Long Meeting with COVID-19, Budget & Much, Much More..The full over 7 hours of video is below and the full agenda is enclosed as a reference… Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting 6/9/2020 9:00 AM Board of Supervisors Chambers 891 Mountain Ranch Road   San Andreas, CA 95249 Downloads: […]

Stanislaus National Forest Revises Forest Order, Removes Some & Extends Other Seasonal High-Elevation Roads

Stanislaus National Forest Revises Forest Order, Removes Some & Extends Other Seasonal High-Elevation Roads

Sonora, CA…The Stanislaus National Forest revised its seasonal high-elevation road closure order. The revision lists only five forest roads that remain closed through June 30, 2020 due to lingering snow. The previous order included sixteen high elevation roads. View a copy of Forest Order fseprd748219 and the accompanying map. These five seasonal roads will be […]

Calaveras County Board of Supervisors are Back in Action Today

Calaveras County Board of Supervisors are Back in Action Today

San Andreas, CA…Calaveras County Board of Supervisors are Back in Action Today. The full agenda is below… Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting 6/9/2020 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 numbers. If […]

Governor Newsom Announces New Policing and Criminal Justice Reforms

Governor Newsom Announces New Policing and Criminal Justice Reforms

Sacramento, CA…After a week of engagement with civic leaders and law enforcement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and demonstrations nationwide, Governor Newsom announced his support for new policing and criminal justice reforms. Governor Newsom will work toward a statewide standard for policing peaceful protests and ending the carotid hold. This announcement […]

Construction Begins on Techite Pipeline Replacement Project in Big Trees Village

Construction Begins on Techite Pipeline Replacement Project in Big Trees Village

Dorrington, CA…As of June 1, 2020, the Calaveras County Water District (CCWD) has begun construction on the replacement of a nearly 8,000-foot section of 14-inch-diameter water transmission pipeline along Meko Drive near Dorrington, in Big Trees Village. The project contract was awarded to K.W. Emerson, Inc., for $1.9 million, which will come from CCWD’s Capital […]

Nineteenth Case COVID-19 Confirmed in Calaveras County

Nineteenth Case COVID-19 Confirmed in Calaveras County

San Andreas, CA…On Friday, June 5, 2020, Calaveras Public Health confirmed an additional case of COVID-19 in Calaveras County. The case is an older adult female from Angels Camp. This becomes the fourth case in Calaveras County within the last 72 hours. The source of the individual’s infection has not been determined at this time. […]

Angels Camp City Council to Hold Emergency Meeting on George Floyd Protests & Curfew

Angels Camp City Council to Hold Emergency Meeting on George Floyd Protests & Curfew

Angels Camp, CA…The Angels Camp City Council will be holding an emergency meeting at 12:30pm this afternoon. They will be considering declaring a state of emergency within the city. From the agenda below…”City Council of the City of Angels Camp (the “City”) to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local emergency when the […]

2.5 Million Jobs Returned in May, Unemployment Drops to 13.3 Percent!

2.5 Million Jobs Returned in May, Unemployment Drops to 13.3 Percent!

Washington, DC…Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 2.5 million in May, and the unemployment rate declined to 13.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. These improvements in the labor market reflected a limited resumption of economic activity that had been curtailed in March and April due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and […]

Caltrans District 10 Road Repair & Construction Schedule Through June 13th

Caltrans District 10 Road Repair & Construction Schedule Through June 13th

Angels Camp, CA…The latest schedule of road repairs and maintenance that will affect your travels in our area and as you travel. Locally crews will be working on many of our roadways. Below is Caltrans plans for repairs and maintenance on local roads. It shows the route, county, and location of the possible repairs. Weather […]

New Forest Supervisor Arrives on the Eldorado National Forest June 22

New Forest Supervisor Arrives on the Eldorado National Forest June 22

Placerville, CA..The Eldorado National Forest welcomes back Jeff Marsolais, who will begin serving as the Eldorado’s new forest supervisor on June 22. For the past 5 years, Jeff has been the forest supervisor on the neighboring Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU), where he has served in several positions since 2010. Jeff worked on the […]

Governor Newsom Proclaims Statewide General Election on Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Governor Newsom Proclaims Statewide General Election on Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Sacramento, CA…Governor Gavin Newsom today issued a proclamation declaring a statewide General Election on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, and signed an executive order to ensure that Californians can exercise their right to vote in a safe, secure and accessible manner during the upcoming election.  “We are committed to protecting the hard-fought right for Californians to […]

Boris Johnson in Op-Ed Says the UK Will Admit Almost 3 Million from Hong Kong if China Implements “Security” Laws

Boris Johnson in Op-Ed Says the UK Will Admit Almost 3 Million from Hong Kong if China Implements “Security” Laws

London, UK…There is something wonderful about the fact that a small island in the Pearl River Delta rose to become a great trading city and commercial powerhouse of East Asia. Wonderful, but not accidental or fortuitous.Hong Kong succeeds because its people are free. They can pursue their dreams and scale as many heights as their […]

Tree Mortality Mitigation Program Update

Tree Mortality Mitigation Program Update

San Andreas, CA…Calaveras County is continuing its efforts to mitigate hazards associated with dead and dying trees located along County roads or affecting County infrastructure. Projects that have been recently completed include the removal of 564 trees on Bureau of Land Management parcels adjoining County roads throughout the County, 263 trees in the Highway 4 […]

Amador County to Open COVID-19 Testing Site

Amador County to Open COVID-19 Testing Site

Amador County, CA…Amador County Public Health in collaboration with the Emergency Operations Center is opening one drive-through community-based testing site at St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Parish later this week to expand COVID-19 testing for our community. Amador’s drive-through testing site will be open to pre-scheduled appointments starting June 4, 2020. Beginning, Tuesday, June 2, 2020, […]

Hop Over to Frogtown as COVID-19 Testing Site Now Offering Walk-Ins

Hop Over to Frogtown as COVID-19 Testing Site Now Offering Walk-Ins

Angels Camp CA..(Frogtown, USA)..OptumServe, a health services partner with the State of California, is now accepting walk-ins at the local COVID-19 testing site located at the Calaveras Fairgrounds outside of Angels Camp. This is in large part to expanded efforts to bring COVID-19 testing to the county. “Testing gives us an idea of how many […]

Statement by the President on Floyd Death, Protests & Riots

Statement by the President on Floyd Death, Protests & Riots

Washington, DC…Thank you very much. My fellow Americans: My first and highest duty as President is to defend our great country and the American people. I swore an oath to uphold the laws of our nation, and that is exactly what I will do. All Americans were rightly sickened and revolted by the brutal death […]

Sonora Police Dept Welcomes & Ready for Peaceful Demonstrations on Wednesday

Sonora Police Dept Welcomes & Ready for Peaceful Demonstrations on Wednesday

Sonora, CA…From the Sonora Police Dept…”The Sonora Police Department is aware of the planned demonstrations for Wednesday in downtown Sonora. We have an incredibly supportive community that shares a respect for one another, so we are anticipating a peaceful event. We fully support the freedom of speech that is constitutionally protected under the 1st Amendment, […]

Caltrans District 10 Road Repair & Construction Schedule Through June 6th

Caltrans District 10 Road Repair & Construction Schedule Through June 6th

Angels Camp, CA…The latest schedule of road repairs and maintenance that will affect your travels in our area and as you travel. Locally crews will be working on many of our roadways. Below is Caltrans plans for repairs and maintenance on local roads. It shows the route, county, and location of the possible repairs. Weather […]