Prison Re-entry facilities are designed to help prisoners succeed in returning to their communities by offering better rehabilitation programs than they would normally get in a regular prison. These include drug treatment, anger management, job training, housing assistance and remedial education. Once an inmate is released on parole, the parolee could then continue the same programs he began at the re-entry facility. Wednesday in a press conference, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation to make the…
A SUTTER CREEK MAN CHARGED IN A DUI FATAL ACCIDENT HAS BEEN ORDERED BY A CALAVERAS COUNTY COURT TO PAY RESTITUTION TO THE VICTIM’S FAMILY. JARED ALLEN, 24, WILL HAVE TO PAY $1,242 IN RESTITUTIONS TO THE MOTHER OF JEREMY BROWN, A 23 YEAR OLD JACKSON RESIDENT AND FRIEND OF ALLEN’S, WHO WAS KILLED AFTER BEING EJECTED FROM THE CAR ALLEN WAS DRIVING. ALLEN WAS BACK IN COURT FRIDAY MORNING AFTER HAVING BEEN ARRESTED FOR…
A proposed development in Sutter Creek that would more than double the population of the town was the topic of this week’s Sutter Creek Planning Commission meeting. The Gold Rush Gold Ranch Development and Golf Course would be situated along Lower Ridge Road and the new Highway 49 bypass, and would include 12 new neighborhoods with a total of 1-thousand three hundred and thirty-four new residences, an eighteen-hole golf course, three hundred vacation homes, and…
A personnel shift in Congressman Dan Lungren’s office has local residents talking- talking about what the shift may mean in terms of the politics for a potential Indian gaming casino in Plymouth. The move by Lungren’s former Intergovernmental Affairs Director Peter Tateishi from the public sector to the private sector is the source of concern. Tateishi has resigned his position in Lungren’s office and subsequently accepted a position as a contract employee for the Ione…
A single vehicle accident on Highway 88 Wednesday afternoon resulted in the car rolling about 30 feet down an embankment and trapping the 86 year old female driver. Witnesses said the car was traveling east near Tabeau Road when for an unknown reason it served off the road, through trees and over the bank. Another driver traveling the same part of the roadway told TSPN that she honked her horn when she saw the car…
A two car collision tied up traffic Wednesday morning on Upper Ridge Rd near Bowman Rd. The collision was initially reported as having been heard only by a nearby neighbor. Upon arrival on scene Battalion 10 fire personnel found the drivers already out of their cars. The collision was described as a vehicle, with a driver, a passenger, and two small children in safety restraint seats, that for an unknown reason failed to see the…
Michelle Wamboldt, also known as Michelle Seefeldt, was arrested last week by Jackson police investigators at her home on an outstanding warrant an arrest charging her with grand theft, forgery, embezzlement and identity theft. The arrest stemmed from a lengthy investigation of Wamboldt, who is suspected of conducting a credit card scheme that defrauded Dr. Margaret Macleod of $44,000 while Wamboldt was employed as Dr. Macleod’s office manager.
