The city of Ione has approved a contract with Bob Murray and Associates to start recruiting a new city administrator/manager and finance director. Ione's current interim city administrator, George Lambert, reported to the Ione City Council that they had received a fiscally “good deal” on the recruiting contract price. The deal offers a 1 year satisfaction guarantee warranty. In other words, if in one year the new administrator and/or finance director does not satisfy the…
The Jackson Planning Commission met this week for what many thought would be a short meeting, however considerable discussion on the agenda’s two items led to an well over an hour and a half of time. The first item to appear was a Public Hearing for a variance for applicant’s Robert and Letitia Sexton. Commissioner Sexton stepped down for the discussion and left the building since she was the applicant on the variance. The Sexton’s…
According to the American Cancer Society, fewer people died of cancer in 2004 than in 2003, marking the second consecutive year that cancer deaths have declined in the United States, a new American Cancer Society report shows. According to Cancer Statistics 2007, there were 3,014 fewer cancer deaths in 2004 compared to the previous year. The report is published in the latest issue of the ACS journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. That number…
Yesterday Gov. Schwarzenegger signed an Executive Order now mandating a Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) for the state of California. The order seeks to reduce the carbon component of fuels for passenger vehicles by at least 10 percent by the year 2020. The reduction carbon emissions is an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the state’s dependency on fossil type fuels. "Reducing the carbon content of transportation fuels sold in California by just 10…
Earlier this week state officials, Senator Dave Cox along with the new warden at Mule Creek State Prison, Rich Subia and the new Secretary of the Department of corrections, James Tilton, held a public forum in Ione to hear input from citizens on how the prison is affecting the local community. First to address the three men was a woman who lives directly across from the prison. She told them that her tap water has…
Sutter Amador Hospital (SAH) is pleased to announce the addition of pediatrician, David Stone, M.D. to their medical staff. Dr. Stone began seeing patients on Tuesday, January 16th at the Sutter Amador Pediatric Center located at 601 Court Street, Suite 200. Sometime this spring, the pediatric center will relocate to the hospital’s new Outpatient Services Center on 100 Mission Boulevard. “Our pediatric center’s patient volumes have increased over the past year,” says Anne Platt, SAH’s…
Two people, the subject of an intense manhunt this afternoon in downtown Jackson, used there last hours of freedom to get beauty treatments at a poplar local salon. Now they are the best groomed inmates at the Amador County Jail. The ordeal began today when Jackson Parking Enforcement Officer Paul Neasbitt contacted three individuals in the North Main Street Parking Lot. Two individuals, a male and a female were seated inside the dark colcored Acura…
Cold weather conditions combined with inattentiveness to the roadway continued to wreck havoc over the weekend. On Friday morning an accident occurred on Latrobe Road when Robert Liad 55 and of Sutter Creek was driving his 1995 Jeep northbound on Latrobe Road at about 35-40 miles per hours. According to Officer Mike LeMaster’s report Liad was attempting to use his cell phone and while looking down at his phone he inadvertently let the Jeep drift…
