Arnold, CA…Thank you to all of you who have & have had The Pine Tree as part of your news reading the last 20 years!!!!! It has been humbling and an honor to become part of your lives!! Many of you every day and for some multiple times a day. To see our traffic climb into the millions of pageviews per month is humbling indeed.
It was a different world in 2005. Pre-Facebook, Pre-Twitter & even texting on mobile phones was a novelty. What hasn’t changed in Calaveras, Tuolumne, Amador & Alpine counties is who we serve. First and foremost our local audience. Right after that and also a huge part of our local economies is our part time residents and visitors.
On most days our local audience dominates on some however visitors and part time residents that access ThePineTree.net from out of the area provide more traffic than even our loyal locals.
As a second home owner told me once. “We read ThePineTree.net everyday to see what is happening in our “real” home.”. This man lived in Hillsborough and didn’t even know his neighbors. His heart and his “home” was right here in Arnold.
Out hope was to build a news outlet where we didn’t editorialize but just brought as much of our area and its’ happenings as we could every day.
Full video, tons of photos, live coverage & more were a rarity 20 years ago. Now it is much more common but we would like to think the full parade video & over 200 photos from Irish Day this year still adds something more than just a photo or two but a rolling archive of the events of our area.
Yes, even from our beginnings we valued free speech as being able to rightly or wrongly have an opinion truly has been the American way for almost 250 years.
In essence we love our communities, love our people, love the friends & believe small town America is the past, present & future spirit of our country.
Thank You All and here to hoping for another 20!!!
John
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Wow, has it been that long? Dang .
I do miss the onsite wildfire coverage, that was always at the fires quickly, with photos, miss that.
I applaud the free speech effort, it is too bad some abuse this privilege.
With rights, privileges comes responsibly, to be respectful of others.
I view this ability to post as a forum to express views- a debate, using documented facts from credible sources.
Thank You John , wishing you another 20 years !
Yeah, the little uneducated tranny gay guy always commenting on “it’s” fantasy with another guy is an embarrassment to TPT and the county.
You really need to take it up with your local grocery store, John
Maybe that fellow tried of hearing your Trump rants you have nothing coming either.
^^Maybe you take English lesson,
Here is a hilarious free speech illegal, absolutely hilarious..she’s gone now. They will need a fork lift.
Internet Demands Trump Deport HUGE Illegal Alien who BRAGGED About Being Illegal: ‘ICE Come Get Her’
https://youtu.be/8jNesbsmhmU?si=PRmyHsSfu0Wd1s40
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
How about some REAL news.
Some real TRUTH
Enough with the “Possible Injury”,
the endless Sheriffs reports.
Enough with the Trump bias. Try the truth.
Man’s black chevrolet going to get keyed.
Man say “bring it on bitch”.
The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq rocketed higher Wednesday afternoon after President Trump said he’d pause tariffs on those countries willing to negotiate, while punishing China even more with a 124% tariff slap. Oil and gold spiked as the VIX, the CBOE’s volatility index or so-called fear gauge, plummeted from a 5-year high.
OH NO! I BET THEPINETREE’S CHICKEN LITTLE LIBERAL LEFT ARE FUMING THAT TRUMP TRUMPED THEM AGAIN OVER WITH YET ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL POLICY.
YOU GUYS SHOULD BE HAPPY, YOUR POTUS IS HELPING ALL AMERICANS, EVEN THOSE WHO HATE HIM AND HAVE NO LIFE, NO SAVINGS, LIKE YOU!!! HE CARES UNLIKE YOUR HAMMACRAT POLITICIANS YOU LOVE SO MUCH WHO ONLY LOOK OUT FOR THEIR BILLIONAIRE FRIENDS, RICH CELEBRITIES AND THE FOOLS WHO DONATED $1,400,000,000 TO THE DNC WHERE KAMALA BLEW IT ALL I. 3 MONTHS.
^Long fall from that high horse.
Trump folded like a cheap shirt he is a wishy washy as an old washing machine
What a idiot. Trumps orange kool aid is delicious. He hasn’t helped anybody except himself and his rich cronies. All those capital letters just make’s you look like as big an idiot as he is . F Trump
How about all those dumb ass still flying those Trump flags on their property are they really proud to let people know that they have their heads up their ass?
I’d rather have your lips wrapped around my cock.
Why did you pull your Harris/ Walz sign?
Watermelon Head Sniveler sure knows how to put a smile on my face.
Sniveler spit or swallow?
Swallow I’m a gulper!
KILL TRUMP!!
Better go check the paint job.
Spoken by a man with disabilities…………….
Clearly threatening the President on social media post. Your life is about to get pretty miserable.
US to Revoke Visas, Green Cards Over Social Media Posts | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G
https://youtu.be/rqhURStlJt8?si=8z7aI46OU9DBBzKo
What a real treat this morning with sniveler knocking on my front door I couldn’t say no……………..,,,
I feel like a new man who needs a wife when you have a guy like Sniveler, Anti
The bi weekly protests across the country are being legislated against in red states.
So much for our Constitutional right to protest.
The protests should be mainly about the purging of likely Democratic voters in red states.
So in red states, you may lose your right to protest, and already are purged so you can’t vote.
FEC data shows 4.5million voters purged in the last election mostly in red states.
This is how Republicans “win” .
Republicans clearly are anti Democracy, and pro Putin.
Why are they allowing the don’s focus to weaken America? They could stop it as they did with Nixon.
Oh, that was the old GOP now it’s the new GOP , and pro Putin authoritarian style government, what the don is doing.
The most presidential orders, more than all past presidents combined. Wannabe dictator.
The don clearly exhibits psychosis-
“Even as he blinks momentarily on his tariff mania, his behavior is getting even more erratic in a way that’s got ‘last days of Waco’ vibes from a president who has already unsubtly compared himself to David Koresh. His Truth Social meltdown when announcing the ‘pause’ indicates a decline in Trump’s already-fragile mental state.”
Fragile mental state bring back Joe in 2028.
Our president?
President Donald Trump has boasted that world leaders panicked by his gargantuan global tariffs are “kissing my ass-” in desperate bids to reduce the levies.
I wouldn’t want to kiss your ass but I have something to put in between those cheeks.
John John
As the stock market crashes again today. Down over 900 + points. Republicans are going to need to admit. Donald Trump is not qualified to be president… Period
Trump is not qualified to work at McDonalds. He is a convicted felon of 34 counts
Trump starts a recession and calls it winning! Then plays some golf. The Golden Age has begun. Think I’ll vacation down at the gulf of America. Nope this years vacation fund wiped out. Screw Trump
Sniveler qualified to work at Wienerschnitzel he loves handling wieners.
If I had a son I’d want him to look like John, Sniveler
Thank you, John.
The hell with little league practice tomorrow I’ll be at the Moose Lodge in White Pines for the Easter Egg Hunt watching all of those little boys running around with my blanket, Sniveler
^^^^Why are all those little boys running around with your blanket?
Your jack off blanket Sniveler.