The Electronic Recycling Day held in November by the Amador County Fair was so successful, that another will be held Saturday, February 24.  Several tons of no longer usable electronic waste was collected for recycling rather than going into the County landfill. If you have a storeroom or garage cluttered with out-of-date or broken office and entertainment equipment, here’s your chance to get rid of it safely and for free. The Amador County Fair will…

Plans are underway for the 2007 Amador County Fair to be held July 26th through the 29th. The theme for the 2007 Fair is “Bumper Cars, Rodeo Stars, & Ewe (you).”  According to Susan Clark, CEO, now is the time to make suggestions for what you would like to see or participate in at this year’s Fair.  “We want to keep the Amador County Fair current as well as honor our traditions, and hearing from…

The El Dorado Irrigation District Board of Directors met yesterday and made the decision to ask the Amador County Board of Supervisors to place a 10 mile per hour speed limit on Silver Lake. Last fall the El Dorado Irrigation District began looking at recommendations for a personal water craft ban for the lake citing concerns about public safety and potential liability. irrigation Board member George Osborne stated in November that liability issues in the…

Save Mart Supermarkets, based in Modesto, recently purchased 132 Albertson’s stores in Northern California, including the Amador County store. It was announced last week that the Sonora store will be closed this coming Saturday leaving the Sonora area’s 65 employees without jobs. According to Save Mart spokesperson Alicia Rockwell the Jackson store will remain open and will slowly be converted over to a Save Mart store. Customers will not see a big difference in the…

A fatal accident occurred Friday afternoon just after one pm on Hwy 88 near Toyon Rd. The accident closed that roadway for several hours causing motorists to detour. According to witnesses on scene the accident occurred just West of Smalley's Sales and service when a female driver traveling westbound, in a green Buick sedan, lost control on a long sweeping corner. As a result the Buick spun into the path of a Ford pickup truck…

Main Street in Ione is expecting a face lift in May according to Mayor Jerry Sherman. Cal Trans will be doing a series of improvements on Main Street that begin at the Preston Avenue Bridge and continue down Main Street to Hwy. 104. Cal Trans will make upgrades to the drainage as well as making improvements to the street. Mayor Sherman said that while Cal Trans reported that they would begin the upgrades sometime in…

Sutter Creek Fire Protection District firefighters were busy in the month of January. The local volunteers answered 72 calls January 1st through February 8th. 56 of those calls were emergency medical calls, accounting for almost 79 percent of the total call log. 5 of the calls were actual fire related calls with 4 Hazmat call, which also includes hazardous conditions such as the recent bomb threat.

A Reno-Tahoe coalition has begun building support for a possible 2018 Winter Olympics bid around Lake Tahoe, the site of the 1960 games. A group of business leaders and politicians known as the Reno-Tahoe Winter Games Coalition on Tuesday won unanimous support from the Placer County Board of Supervisors to pursue the plan. According to CBS 13, on Thursday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office signaled he would consider supporting a bid if the U.S. Olympic Committee…

Even with the nearly two inches of rain we received over the weekend, more falling some areas of the state, California will still need about double its normal precipitation for the rest of the winter and spring to catch up with a normal year, said Department of Water Resources hydrologist Maury Roos. And that brings up discussions of cloud seeding. When conditions are right cloud seeding across California can bolster the state's runoff by perhaps…

According to a federal appeals court ruling issued Friday, Indian tribes are indeed subject to federal labor law. This case, according to labor experts could now lead to stricter labor protections - and more unions - at the nation's booming Indian casinos. According to the AP, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected arguments from a wealthy Southern California tribe that as a sovereign government, it…