A Head on accident occurred yesterday at approximately 3:56 pm on Lupe Road near the intersection of Lupe and Ridge Road in Pine Grove. Apparently a driver, while entering a sweeping curve, crossed over the center line and hit the other vehicle head on. The impact left the two vehicles blocking both lanes of traffic and traffic was backed up for about a half an hour while emergency crews cleared the roadway. American Legion ambulance…
The Jackson Fire Department volunteers remained busy in January with a total of 83 calls leaving the average number of calls fairly high for the New Year at 2.8 calls per day. Last year in January there were at total of 73 calls. Medical calls ranked highest on the call log with 58 calls or 69% of the calls received in January. Vehicle accidents followed far behind with 13% of the calls or 10 calls.…
Ranger Pipeline, the contractor for the Amador Water Agency on the transmission pipeline project has announced planned blasting for the Upper Previtali Rd / Bosse Rd area about 5 miles east of Jackson off of Hwy 88. The blasting will occur beginning next Monday February 12th with an anticipated completion by the end of the month. The blasting will be conducted Monday through Friday, 7:00 am to 5 pm daily during this time period. Jamie…
One hundred and fifty years ago, Fiddletown merchant Chew Kee sold firecrackers, lanterns and little red envelopes to help Chinatown celebrate Chinese New Year. Sadly, as we enter the Year of the Pig on Feb. 18 in 2007, there are no Chinese residents in Fiddletown to celebrate the festive occasion. Chew Kee's store is still standing, though. It is now a museum operated under the auspices of the Fiddletown Preservation Society. It was occupied by…
According to the Compact between the Buena Vista tribe of Me-Wuk Indians and the state of California the tribe is required in their Tribal Environmental Impact Report to describe reasonable alternatives to the project, which the tribe has named the Flying Cloud Casino. Currently, the tribe is proposing phasing in a casino and hotel in 3 stages ending the process with a nearly 72,000 sq foot facility with 2000 slot machines and 80 gaming tables.
According to the Farms of Amador the olive production of the Amador Olive Oil Company in 2006 was way down compared to the previous year, 2005. Owner Susan Bragstad reported that in 2005 the harvest yielded three and a half tons from the farm but this year she was lucky to get a little more than a ton. According to the Farms of Amador newsletter production in the Central Valley was almost non-existant this year…
According to the AP recordings of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reveal the Republican griping about Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike and expressing sympathy for Mexican immigrants, but saying they should embrace the United States. In one of the recordings released Sunday, he complains that Democratic Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, with whom he has cooperated on efforts to rebuild California's infrastructure and fight global warming, was at times a "political operator" who would tell Schwarzenegger one thing…
More children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, mostly by accidentally viewing sexually explicit Web sites while surfing the Internet, researchers say. Forty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in a recent 12-month span. Of those, 66 percent said they did not want to view the images and had not sought them out,
Michael Savage, the nation's third-most listened to radio talk-show host, says he may leave his top rated show to make a bid for the GOP nomination for president. "I know it sounds bizarre but when you consider the people running for the presidency, none . . . seems to be qualified," Savage told NewsMax in an exclusive interview. Savage, based at the San Francisco Bay area's KNEW station, began his syndicated "Savage Nation" show in…
The California State Department of corrections and Rehabilitations will soon begin moving inmates involuntarily to prison facilities in Arizona, Oklahoma and Mississippi as per a directive from Gov. Schwarzenegger. Governor Schwarzenegger ordered the transfers of California prisoners last October to ease overcrowding in the state’s correctional facilities.
