What’s Happening in Murphys this Week February 1 through February 12, 2016

What’s Happening in Murphys this Week February 1 through February 12, 2016

Murphys, CA…Artist Showing at Ironstone Vineyards – AnimalScapes – An Art Exhibit for Animal Lovers open for viewing through February 15, 2016. Featured Artists in January at Art on Main – Helen Scofield along with guest artist Kathleen Dunphy will be featured during the month of January. Artist Showing at Hovey Winery – The diverse […]

Distinctive Metals Now Hiring Two Full Time Welders

Distinctive Metals Now Hiring Two Full Time Welders

Angels Camp, CA…Distinctive Metals currently has two full time welding positions open. The first position available is for someone who is an intermediate (skill level I) in welding and would like to enhance their skills while learning on the job. The second position is for someone who is advanced (skill level III) in 7018, dual […]

Calaveras County Public Access TV Studio PATV Schedule Through Feb 4th

Calaveras County Public Access TV Studio PATV Schedule Through Feb 4th

San Andreas, CA…Calaveras Community TV is located in San Andreas, CA. We are a non-profit organization which helps facilitate the local studio and air original community programming to your home. The goals for PEG Access Television are to promote free speech, foster diverse points of view, encourage communications, create opportunities, encourage artistic expression, expand educational […]

Ebbetts Pass Lumber Seeking Applicants For Lumber Yard Manager

Ebbetts Pass Lumber Seeking Applicants For Lumber Yard Manager

Arnold, CA…Ebbetts Pass Lumber Company in Arnold is looking to hire key person for our lumber yard management team. Responsibilities include: managing staff and operations, building customer relationships, purchasing and selling. Lumber yard, or hardware retail experience is ideal. Construction background is a plus. This is a great opportunity to land a professional job in […]

CCWD Assists Butte Fire Recovery Efforts Of CalaverasGROWN

CCWD Assists Butte Fire Recovery Efforts Of CalaverasGROWN

San Andreas, CA…The Calaveras County Water District Board of Directors recently contributed $5,000 to CalaverasGROWN to aide in Butte Fire recovery efforts. The community organization used the funds to purchase weed-free rice straw, which is spread over burned areas that have the highest risk of erosion. These efforts provide significant benefits to private landowners by […]

Get Your Chili Pots Or Tastebuds Ready For The 9th Annual Super Bowl Chili Cook-Off

Get Your Chili Pots Or Tastebuds Ready For The 9th Annual Super Bowl Chili Cook-Off

Murphys, CA…Join us for our 9th annual Chili Cook-Off at the Murphys Historic Hotel held Super Bowl Sunday, February 7th! All proceeds will benefit the Hospice of Amador and Calaveras & the Resource Connection Food Bank! Our cook-off will start at 10 am and tasting starts at 2 pm. Price to enter is either 10 […]

Shelly Johnson 1943 – 2016

Copperopolis, CA…Shelly Johnson, May 20, 1943 January 27, 2016 of Copperopolis, CA, formerly of Arnold, CA. Shelly was taken suddenly from her earthly life on January 27 th to begin her eternity with the Lord. Her smile, laughter, and simply being a good listener, friend, and example to follow will be missed by all who […]

Traffic Update…Vehicle Off Roadway Near Hwy 108 & Twain Harte Drive

Traffic Update…Vehicle Off Roadway Near Hwy 108 & Twain Harte Drive

Train Harte, CA….CHP is reporting a possible injury accident were a vehicle has hit ice and gone off roadway and down into a ravine. Please use caution and expect delays in the area… Incident: 00299 Type: Trfc Collision-1141 Enrt Location: Sr108 / Twain Harte Dr Loc Desc: EB JEO Lat/Lon: 38.019748 -120.246813 Detail Information 12:25 […]

Pot Related Home Invasion Robbery In Amador County

Pot Related Home Invasion Robbery In Amador County

Sutter Creek, CA…On January 25, 2016 at approximately 0336 hours, the Amador County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 Emergency call from a resident at the 15000 block of Ridge Road in the unincorporated area of Sutter Creek. The caller stated that her neighbors had been the victim of a home invasion robbery. Amador County Sheriff’s […]

A Bit Of Everything This Week In Weather

A Bit Of Everything This Week In Weather

Arnold, CA…Today will be a sunny day in most portions of the West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada region. Rest Of Today: Mostly sunny. At higher elevations…scattered snow showers early in the morning. Breezy. Highs 23 to 38 higher elevations…37 to 45 lower elevations. Little or no new snow accumulation. Prevailing northeast winds 10 to 25 […]

Bret Harte High School Campus Locked Down After Threat

Bret Harte High School Campus Locked Down After Threat

Angels Camp, CA…On January 29, 2016 at approximately 09:20 AM, the Angels Camp Police Department received information from Bret Harte High School staff regarding a possible threat to shoot students on campus. The threat was received through third-party information. No specific students or faculty members were named in the threat. The campus was immediately placed […]

Update On The Precautionary (Now Lifted) Lockdown At Bret Harte High School

Update On The Precautionary (Now Lifted) Lockdown At Bret Harte High School

Angels Camp, CA…We would like to thank Bret Harte Unified School District Superintendent Michael Chimente for some additional details on this mornings incident.  “We did have a threat and the campus was placed on precautionary lockdown while ACPD, TCSO and other agencies did a sweep of the campus.  The lockdown was lifted at 10:40am this […]

Cal Waste Recycles With Goats

Cal Waste Recycles With Goats

Arnold, CA…Cal-Waste is on the cutting edge of recycling technology. Sometimes the best way to go forward in recycling is decidedly old school. They rented the 350 + goats to eat the Christmas trees that were collected throughout the areas they service. There were probably 300-400 trees at the ranch. IT’s just another way to […]

Flash Flood Watch In Effect From Friday Afternoon Through Saturday Morning For Butte Fire Burn Area

Flash Flood Watch In Effect From Friday Afternoon Through Saturday Morning For Butte Fire Burn Area

San Andreas, CA…Flash Flood Watch for anyone living or traveling on roads in the Butte Fire Burn Area along Jesus Maria Creek and the Calaveras River especially from Whiskey Slide to Highway 26 should be alert for probable road problems due to flooding, rock and debris, Mountain Ranch Rd and the connecting smaller roads within […]

Virginia Ann Correia 1948 – 2016

Valley Springs, CA…Virginia Ann Correia Born October 10, 1948 in Oakland, California. Age at time of death Age 67. A longtime resident of Valley Springs, California. Died January 25th 2016 in Valley Springs, California. Died of natural causes. A graduate of Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, California. Retired catering business owner and home maker. […]

“The Little Mermaid” Swims Into The Bret Harte Theatre Feb. 12-14

“The Little Mermaid” Swims Into The Bret Harte Theatre Feb. 12-14

Angels Camp, CA…Go “Under the Sea” and let Calaveras Sings! Theatre Arts Repertory for Kids be “Part of Your World” as 70 talented youth performers between the ages of 5-18 stage “The Little Mermaid,” February 12-14 at the Bret Harte High School Center for the Performing Arts in Angels Camp.   Based on the iconic 1989 […]

This Week at the Angels Camp CHS Thrift Store Adoption Center – BEBE!

This Week at the Angels Camp CHS Thrift Store Adoption Center – BEBE!

Angels Camp, CA…Stop by the Calaveras Humane Society’s Thrift Store/Cat Adoption Center in Angels Camp, located in Angels Town Center at 240 S. Main St./Hwy 49, open Thurs/Fri, 10am–5pm, and Saturday, 11am–5pm. Bebe and several other irresistible kitties will be there to meet you. Our Arnold Adoption Center will be CLOSED this week, so if […]

14th Annual Love The Forest Valentine Concert Rocks On Valentines Day

14th Annual Love The Forest Valentine Concert Rocks On Valentines Day

Murphys, CA…Mark your calendars for the 14th annual Love the Forest Concert at Black Bart Playhouse in Murphys, Saturday, February 13, beginning at 7pm. A host of local musicians including Cantamos with Michela Macfarlane, plus The Bill Welles Band. The evening will also include special guest singers from the San Francisco Women’s Choir Musae joining […]

The Blue Mountain Players Present Cookin’ with Gus, opening February 12th in West Point.

The Blue Mountain Players Present Cookin’ with Gus, opening February 12th in West Point.

West Point, CA…This laugh-out loud comedy, by Jim Brochu, follows chef and cookbook author Gussie Richardson as she tries to secure her own television cooking show. Unfortunately, Gus’s stage fright gets in the way of her dream. No one escapes the mess that ensues as her friends try to help her overcome her fears. Cookin’ […]

After Ironstone “AnimalScapes” Art Exhibit Opens Next in Sutter Creek

After Ironstone “AnimalScapes” Art Exhibit  Opens Next in Sutter Creek

Sutter Creek, CA…From February 17 to March 13 the “AnimalScapes of the Sierra Foothills” Art Event will be installed in the banquet room, next to the restaurant, of The Hotel Sutter in Sutter Creek. The public is invited come by and see the 54 original pieces of juried art and poetry created by artists in […]

Calaveras Community Foundation Contributes $40,000 To Support CCAR Charities Butte Fire Relief Efforts

Calaveras Community Foundation Contributes $40,000 To Support CCAR Charities Butte Fire Relief Efforts

Angels Camp, CA…CCAR Charities is pleased to announce that the Calaveras Community Foundation has granted them a second grant this week, in the amount of $40,000, to assist those who suffered damages in the Butte Fire. CCAR Charities is very thankful and grateful for that organization’s on-going support and its faith in the things being […]

Friends of Rail Road Flat School Many Thanks to Supporters of our Efforts in The Butte Fire Recovery

Friends of Rail Road Flat School Many Thanks to Supporters of our Efforts in The Butte Fire Recovery

Rail Road Flat, CA…Now four months after the fire The Friends of Rail Road Flat School which is a local grass roots non-profit group under the auspices of Blue Mountain Community Renewal Council is still hard at work meeting the needs of Fire Survivors. Currently we are stocking and distributing goods from our Butte Fire […]

Greenhorn Creek Golf Resort Men’s Club Results for Wednesday January 27, 2016

Greenhorn Creek Golf Resort Men’s Club Results for Wednesday January 27, 2016

Angels Camp, CA…The Game: One Net Better Ball of Two from Combo Tees plus One Net Better Ball of Two from White Tees. Four Person Team Score is the combination of the two better balls. 1st Place: Bert Sobon, Bob Heise, Doug Haslouer, Fred Russell 2nd Place: Mitch McDaniel, Charlie Creighton, Keith Jolly, Dave Brown […]

Murphys to Markleeville – “The Schedule” – January 29 to February 6

Murphys to Markleeville – “The Schedule” – January 29 to February 6

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 January 29 – February […]