Bret Harte High School Cybullfrogs Club Receives Grant from Calaveras Community Foundation

Bret Harte High School Cybullfrogs Club Receives Grant from Calaveras Community Foundation

Angels Camp, CA…Cybullfrogs, a Bret Harte High School LegoRobotics club, has received a $9964.00 grant from the Calaveras Community Foundation. This is the second year the Foundation has generously helped fund Cybullfrogs. The money will be used to expand the club, now in its second year, so that more students will be able to participate […]

Arnold SIR Branch 152 Lunch Meeting On May 17

Arnold SIR Branch 152 Lunch Meeting On May 17

Arnold, CA…Om Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 11:00 AM, SIR (Sons in Retirement, Branch 152 ) will hold its Monthly Luncheon Meeting at Snowflake Lodge, 2255 Blue Lake Springs Drive, Arnold CA. This month’s speaker will be, Eric Olson, World Financial Group. Eric Olson is currently a Senior Executive Vice Chairman with World Financial Group; […]

Photos Will Be Main Topic Of SMUG’s May Meeting

Photos Will Be Main Topic Of SMUG’s May Meeting

Arnold, CA…Exploring the many facets of Apple’s Photos application will be the main topic when the Sierra Macintosh Users Group (SMUG) has its monthly meeting Tuesday, May 10, beginning at 7 p.m. in the assembly room of the Ebbetts Pass Fire District, 1037 Blagen Rd., just off Highway 4. SMUG president Dick Cross, who has […]

The Bear Valley Music Festival Returns For It’s 48th Year

The Bear Valley Music Festival Returns For It’s 48th Year

Bear Valley, CA…Now in its 48th year, the Bear Valley Music Festival begins on Friday, July 22 and runs through Sunday, August 7 with a total 15 concerts including a special free family matinee on Saturday, July 30. The festival showcases a wide selection of artists and genres including rock, classical, bluegrass and jazz. A […]

Big Trees Association Offering A Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Workshop

Big Trees Association Offering A Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Workshop

Arnold, CA…Calaveras Big Trees Association is offering A Special Workshop “Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases – a Growing Problem in the Western U.S. and What You Need to Know” Presented by Jo Ellis. Director of Education Outreach at the Bay Area Lyme Foundation.  What is Lyme – overview of the infectious disease, transmission, symptoms, challenges […]

Bret Harte’s Kaiya Hall Takes Top Spelling Bee Honors

Bret Harte’s Kaiya Hall Takes Top Spelling Bee Honors

San Andreas, CA…The 48th Annual Calaveras County Spelling Bee pitted the county’s top spellers against each other on Thursday, April 14th at the Calaveras River Academy/Mountain Oaks gymnasium. Assistant Superintendent Scott Nanik, the spelling moderator of the event, read words from the Marin County Junior High Spelling Word List. The students wrote the words down, […]

Bret Harte High School Now Home Of The Tony Tyrrell Sports Complex

Bret Harte High School Now Home Of The Tony Tyrrell Sports Complex

Angels Camp, CA…Behind most great organizations there is invariably one or two people who are the driving force to see that progress is made and plans come to fruition. Behind Bret Harte’s beautiful facilities and sports venues that many colleges would be proud to have that driving force has been and is Tony Tyrrell. From […]

Arnold Pipeline Replacement Community Meeting April 26 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Arnold Pipeline Replacement Community Meeting April 26 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Arnold, CA…The Calaveras County Water District is holding a community meeting from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday April 26 to provide residents with information regarding the Reach 3A Transmission Pipeline Replacement Project. Construction will begin in May and the project is expected to be complete in November. This project will replace about 20,000 feet of […]

An Update On The Ebbetts Pass Rock Slide…Thank You Caltrans! ~ From Alpine County Sheriff’s Dept

An Update On The Ebbetts Pass Rock Slide…Thank You Caltrans!  ~ From Alpine County Sheriff’s Dept

Markleeville, CA…An update on the Ebbetts Pass Rockslide: First and foremost, our deepest thanks to our friends at CalTrans and specifically the actual blasters, Brees and Bickor. Great job gentlemen and thank you for the photos! Statistics: 5 days total of reductions, 3 of those days used explosives. They drilled 58 holes and used 33 […]

VUSD Earns Gold Ribbon Honors For Albert Michelson & Hazel Fischer Elementary Schools

VUSD Earns Gold Ribbon Honors For Albert Michelson & Hazel Fischer Elementary Schools

Sacramento, CA…State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced that 772 elementary schools are being honored under the Gold Ribbon Schools Awards Program.  Here locally Vallecito Unified earned top honors for two of their three schools and Amador County placed two on the list.   “These schools shine as bright beacons for others, putting forth an […]

Calaveras County Public Access TV Studio PATV Schedule Through April 21

Calaveras County Public Access TV Studio PATV Schedule Through April 21

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 […]

EPYSL Fall Registration Now Open!

EPYSL Fall Registration Now Open!

Murphys, CA…EPYSL’s fall recreational and competitive programs are the most popular component of the Leagues year round playing opportunities, introducing and expanding the game of soccer to over 450 players each season. Increasingly, winter and now spring and summer programs are becoming strong additions to fall providing more serious players year round playing options. Contact […]

Liquid Sunshine Makes A Spring Return This Week

Liquid Sunshine Makes A Spring Return This Week

Bear Valley, CA…Much needed precipitation has made a return to grace early April. So you can rest assured there will be a few additional May flowers as a result. The details for the West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada is as follows. Today At lower elevations…rain showers in the morning… Then rain showers…snow showers and a […]

Get Your Last Season’s Fix Of “PMF” This Weekend ~ Bear Valley Update By Mattly Trent

Get Your Last Season’s Fix Of “PMF” This Weekend  ~ Bear Valley Update By Mattly Trent

Bear Valley, CA…Hey Good People! Friday is here and here comes some weather! As low pressure settles in over California and the West Coast precipitation is expected. Warm temps over the last week coupled with the current warm front of the system is lending warmer than normal temps to this system so a mix of […]

Good Night Grizz Bowl For 2016 ~Bear Valley Update By Mattly Trent

Good Night Grizz Bowl For 2016 ~Bear Valley Update By Mattly Trent

Bear Valley, CA…Hey Good People! I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about the Grizzly Bowl and conditions…….Last nights low was 46F and coupled with the previous weeks heat laden days, conditions in the lower mtn have gotten better in an ever narrowing window of open to close. Today that has changed. Deep […]

Arnold Water Main Replacement Contract Awarded

Arnold Water Main Replacement Contract Awarded

San Andreas, CA…The Calaveras County Water District Board of Directors awarded the construction contract for the Reach 3A water transmission pipeline replacement project in Arnold at its meeting Wednesday, April 6. This pipeline was originally installed in 1965 and is being replaced due to its age, poor condition and high frequency of failures and repairs that […]

Ebbetts Pass Lumber Is Growing & Hiring

Ebbetts Pass Lumber Is Growing & Hiring

Arnold, CA…Due to our continued growth and an internal promotion, Ebbetts Pass Lumber has an immediate opening in our lumberyard for a yard worker / customer service position. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment. If you enjoy working with people, have a “can do” attitude and enjoy being part of […]

Join The Chamber On A Coastal Cruise (Now With Special Pricing)

Join The Chamber On A Coastal Cruise (Now With Special Pricing)

San Andreas, CA…The Calaveras County Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce their upcoming 2016 Chamber Cruise Fundraiser. Sail away on one of the world renowned Princess Cruise Grand Princess for a fun filled California Coastal Cruise vacation. This cruise leaves San Francisco on April 24th 2016 and sails to Ensenada, Mexico, returning to San […]

Spring Is Sprunging Along Western Slope This Week

Spring Is Sprunging Along Western Slope This Week

Arnold, CA…On the West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada spring is sprunging this week. Today Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs 48 to 63 higher elevations…60 to 72 lower elevations. Prevailing east winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon. Tonight Partly cloudy. Lows 29 to 44 higher […]