Yesterday afternoon a car spotted with out any license plates leaving the Jackson Rancheria Casino was identified as a stolen vehicle after Jackson Rancheria Tribal police became suspicious of the vehicle and its occupants. Once questioned by the tribal police the driver and passenger fled the Rancheria and as law enforcement moved in on the driver and passenger, the driver decided to move on out, at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. According to the…
District attorney Todd Riebe is wasting no time in filing charges against the 45 year old Pine Grove man accused of critically injuring his girlfriend’s 19 month old baby. Andrew Neil Farkas admitted to investigators that on Wednesday May 16, 2007 between 8:00 and 8:30 pm hours that his girlfriend’s child was crying and banging a "sippy cup" against the wall. Farkas said the child would not stop and that he picked the child up…
District Attorney Todd Riebe has filed 8 felony charges against Stephen Kent Schumann, 66, of Jackson for the Thursday May 3rd incident in which Schumann threatened to kill his family- and threatened Amador County Sheriff’s Deputies by brandishing a firearm.
Accidents on Amador County Roadways picked up there numbers this weekend after last weekend’s relative calm.Early Saturday morning at approximately 3:05am an unidentified 24 year old male from Rancho Cordova was driving southbound in a 2000 Volkswagen on New York Ranch Road and may have been in some sort of speed contest with another vehicle identified only as a red sedan, according to investigating Officer Craig Zaragoza’s report. The report indicates that the red sedan…
The Jackson Planning Commission will meet tonight to review Notices of Intent to Develop. In February of 2007 the Planning Commission recommended to the City Council that they adopt 68 HEUs for the upcoming year, which was the number of HEU’s needed for Jackson Hills to complete phase 1 of their project. The City Council after some deliberation chose to set the allocation at 106, based on the same formula used in 2005 of spreading…
This weekend hundreds of car enthusiast walked the streets of Jackson this weekend for the 11th annual Gold Country Car Cruise Car Show. The show just gets bigger every year and this year around 200 cars entered the event. The weather was perfect for the well organized event which benefits the downtown Jackson business associations.
Jackson’s Legal Counsel, Tom Gibson, recently gave a presentation on Redevelopment Essentials to the City Council. During the formation of the City’s Economic Development Committee the topic of redevelopment was broached. City Manger Mike Daly says, “Redevelopment is a complex issue, but when used successfully in municipalities throughout California to enhance economic development within their communities. Gibson then took the center stage with his power point presentation explaining the “Essentials of Redevelopment.” First and foremost…
Six skilled and lucky poker players are on their way to the World Series of Poker (W.S.O.P.) after winning a main event qualifying tournament at Jackson Rancheria Casino on May 14, 2007. The winners are: Craig Dixon of Pine Grove, Robert Manley of Jackson, Jeff Houston of Merced, Xavier Ignacio Martinez of Stockton, Brandon Riggenbach-Ware of South Lake Tahoe, and Takashi Takii of Sacramento. Each won $2,000 cash plus a $10,000 seat in the World…
A state property tax reduction program near and dear to many Amador County residents is being threatened by Governor Schwarzenegger’s newly proposed budget revise. The Williamson Act currently provides some 94,249 acres in Amador County with tax breaks that total about 9 million dollars. The California Land Conservation Act of 1965--commonly referred to as the Williamson Act--enables local governments to enter into contracts with private landowners for the purpose of restricting specific parcels of land…
