ACRA New Year's Eve Blue Moon Bash Bus Schedule

NEW YEARS BASH - ACRA
SUTTER CREEK - PICK UP
	TIME	TIME
ARTS TERMINAL	5:38	n/a
JACKSON RANCHERIA RV PARK	5:56	7:14
SUTTER CREEK TRANSIT CTR.	6:14	7:31
SUTTER CREEK AUDITORIUM	6:18	7:35
SUTTER CREEK POST OFFICE	6:22	7:39
AMADOR CITY- SO.PARKING LOT (across from Andre's Bakery)	6:26	7:43
SHENANDOAH INN	6:36	7:53
PLYMOUTH FAIRGROUNDS - MAIN ENTRANCE	6:41	7:58
Take Hwy 49 By-pass to Hwy 88 repeat route once
NEW YEARS BASH - ACRA
SUTTER CREEK  - DROP OFF
	TIME	TIME	TIME
PLYMOUTH FAIRGROUNDS - MAIN ENTRANCE	10:10	11:29	12:48
SHENANDOAH INN	10:15	11:34	12:53
AMADOR CITY- SO.PARKING LOT (across from Andre's Bakery)	10:26	11:45	1:04
SUTTER CREEK POST OFFICE	10:30	11:49	1:08
SUTTER CREEK AUDITORIUM	10:34	11:53	1:12
SUTTER CREEK TRANSIT CTR.	10:38	11:57	1:16
JACKSON RANCHERIA RV PARK	10:56	12:15	1:34
Take Hwy 49 By-pass to Plymouth repeat route twice

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Calaveras County – The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office mobilized all available officers in the Valley Springs area Wednesday (Dec. 23) after a string of vehicle-on-vehicle drive-by shootings damaged 4 vehicles but the drivers apparently escaped serious injury. Calaveras County Sheriff’s Sergeant Dave Seawell said authorities were investigating 4 vehicle that occurred Tuesday, Dec. 22, and a drive-by shooting late that occurred about 6 days before. Seawell said the Calaveras sheriff’s office was investigating the incidents as “random shootings.” Four motorists were shot at on Tuesday, Dec. 22, as they were driving in the Valley Springs area. At approximately 5:15 a.m., a 37-year-old female was on her way to work travelling north on Hartvickson Lane near Partridge Road when the glass on the driver’s side window of her vehicle shattered. The victim pulled to the side of the road and discovered a bullet hole in the driver side door just below the window. The victim reported she did not see any vehicles pass her. Seawell said at about 5:45 a.m. Tuesday, a 49-year-old female was travelling west on Highway 12 near Evans Road when she heard a loud bang. The victim thought her vehicle kicked up a rock that struck the vehicle. The victim later discovered her vehicle had a bullet hole in the driver’s side passenger door. The victim reported she had passed a vehicle that was travelling east on Highway 12 but could not provide a description due to it being dark. At 5:55 a.m., a 52-year-old female was travelling east on Highway 26 near St. Andrews Road when her vehicle was shot. Deputies recovered a bullet that had travelled through the vehicle’s hood and lodged in the engine compartment. The victim reported a vehicle had passed her heading west but she could not provide a description due to it being dark. At 10:50 p.m. Tuesday, a 37-year-old male was travelling west on Highway 26 near Jenny Lind Approach Road when a bullet was shot through the driver’s side window of his vehicle. The bullet exited through the passenger side window. The victim said he had passed a vehicle heading east on Highway 26. The victim said he saw a flash as the vehicle passed and then his windows shattered. The victim told deputies he pulled to the side of the road and noticed the vehicle he had passed had stopped. The victim, fearing for his safety proceeded to drive out of the area. The victim described the suspect vehicle to be a light colored, late model sedan. The sheriff’s office is also investigating a drive-by shooting that occurred on or about Dec. 17 at a home on Highway 26 near Vista Del Lago Road in Valley Springs. It is unknown whether the drive-by shooting is related to the shootings that occurred on Tuesday, Dec. 22. Investigators have recovered bullets from the shootings and can confirm all of the bullets are similar and came from a small caliber weapon. Seawell said investigators have not found a link between the victims or a motive for the shootings. There have been no reported injuries. In response to the shootings the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office will be calling in all available personnel to patrol the Valley Springs area. The office urges anyone with information regarding the case to call the sheriff’s public line at 754-6500 or the anonymous tip line at 754-6030. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Amador County – The USDA Forest Service announced Thursday that the seasonal closure of Eldorado National Forest dirt roads and trails to wheeled motorized vehicles will begin January 1, 2010. April 1 will be the earliest reopening date. “I will officially close the dirt routes on January 1,” said Eldorado National Forest Supervisor Ramiro Villalvazo. “These roads and trails are closed seasonally to protect water quality, reduce rutting and erosion, and to prevent damage to road drainage structures, such as water bars.” Villalvazo said last spring the closed routes dried out enough to be reopened on April 16. The seasonally closed routes are identified on a free-of-charge “Motor Vehicle Use Map” available at all Eldorado National Forest offices. More than 600 miles of surfaced roads in the Eldorado National Forest are not affected by this closure. “Regardless of roads and trails being closed, route conditions vary across the Forest,” said Villalvazo. “Visitors need to keep in mind that they will be held responsible for resource damage caused by their vehicles.” The seasonal closure does not affect the roads and trails in the Rock Creek Recreational Trails Area near Georgetown. The Rock Creek Area has its own wet weather closure process that’s been in place since 1999. Information about Rock Creek Area closures is available on the Eldorado National Forest website: www.fs.fed.us/r5/eldorado. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Amador County – The Ione City Council finalized its Wastewater Master Plan last week with a public hearing, setting the path for a new tertiary sewage plant at the site of its current system. The council certified its Environmental Impact Report in a final step in the California Environmental Quality Act process, and set in place the “Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program.” Consultant Bob Godwin of Lee & Ro told the city council that there were “very few changes” between the Draft EIR and the Final EIR. Changes included corrected terminology, and corrections in the project’s description. Godwin said the conclusion in the Draft EIR was that impacts can be mitigated, in measures defined for all potentially significant impacts. The conclusion also said the “project mitigation will have a less than significant effect on the environment.” It also found that the “proposed action is the best alternative” for meeting all of the project’s objectives. Godwin said the Final EIR responded to public comment about the master plan, and addressed hydrology and water quality, including groundwater, manganese and iron concentrations, and flooding. He said the Final EIR also eliminated an “option to partially line Ponds 5 and 6,” and would instead only partially fill those ponds. It also eliminated “chemical wastewater treatment” at the plant, in favor of Ultra-Violet light disinfection only. City Manager Kim Kerr said the UV treatment would be contained within a structure, instead of the current open pond system used at the plant. Plans will remove 4 ponds and add a percolation pond, and partially fill Ponds 5 and 6, to further separate them from the “actual Sutter Creek.” Godwin said filling the ponds was the recommend by the state Regional Water Quality Control Board. City Attorney Kristen Castanos said the “board can only require qualities,” it cannot tell the city what type of facility to build, and cannot order a pond filled, but only recommend actions. Councilman David Plank asked if the percolation pond was a short-term or long-term solution. Kerr said the pond is a percolation area, which evaporates effluent as a means of disposal, and it would be considered “long-term.” Godwin said the “purpose of the percolation ponds is to have a system the city can entirely operate.” With it, the “city will have an ability to have a fallback,” if avenues of disposal dry up. He said “most users of reclaimed water want it seasonally,” for summertime and watering time. Godwin said the plant seeks permitting for a treatment capacity of 1.6 million gallons a day, and it will have a disposal capacity of half that total, at 800,000 gallons a day. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Amador County – Amador County currently has the largest negative discrepeancy in home sale prices for November in the Sacramento region, according to recent statistics from MDA Dataquick. The statistical tracking company said there were 44 sales in November at a median price of $176,000, down 21.1 percent from the same time last year. The second closest figure came from El Dorado County, where the average price of $289,000 is 13.7 percent lower than a year earlier. Amador County is also fifth on the list as far as home prices. Sacramento was the only county in the eight-county region where median home prices have climbed, but that number is still 4.9 percent lower than one year ago. Altogether, 3,183 homes changed hands in November in Amador, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba counties, said DataQuick. Builders closed on 341 escrows, accounting for 10.7 percent of closings in the region. Story by Alex Lane This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.