Another agreement for extension in the negotiations between the Buena Vista Band of Me-Wuk Indians and Amador County has been reached.

The Amador County Transportation Commission held a special meeting Wednesday night to discuss the Jackson Hills Golf Course and Residential Community. ACTC staff had asked their Commission’s Board of Directors to take a specific action regarding a recommendation to the Jackson City Council for the project.

“It’s luck of the draw” says California Highway Patrol Community Outreach Officer John C Hardey. Officer Hardey is referring to the collision numbers for Amador County for the month of July. July 2007 is now officially the least accident plagued month since recording keeping began in its present format, 1996.

Sutter Amador Hospital has announced the reopening of popular off site draw station at 815 Court Street, Suite 4. This is located in the office of Dr. John Ellyson. The draw station opens this coming Monday, August 6th and will be open 6:30 am to noon Monday thru Friday.

As the Golden State heads into yet another month without a ratified state budget the crisis for California's elderly and poor is becoming critical. All Medi-Cal funding will be halted this week to an estimated 500 hospitals throughout the state and 11,000 nursing homes, hospices and adult day care centers. 

A young couple with a baby found themselves in a predicament Wednesday evening on the river along Electra Road. Apparently the couple had arrived earlier in the day and crossed over the river to the Calaveras side by wading in the low water. 

 Next Monday the Amador county negotiation team representing the county’s interests in negotiations with the Buena Vista Rancheria will head to Sacramento for yet another round of negotiations with the Tribe.

Mailboxes are becoming quite the conversation in Sutter Creek as the local post office there has decided to allow street delivery on some additional streets.

“A hopeful step forward” for the Knight Foundry in Sutter Creek according to Project Director Andy Fahrenwald. The California Cultural and Historical Endowment has just announced the finalists in the Round 3 Grant Cycle for Proposition 40 funding and Sutter Creek historic project has made the list.