The Amador County Fair is holding a photography contest to highlight and promote Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park and Chaw’se Regional Indian Museum as part of the State Parks of California Sesquicentennial. Scenes of Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park and Chaw’se Regional Indian Museum taken in Amador County will be accepted. Since 1864, grassroots activism and legislation have made it possible for all Californians to take pride and ownership of their unique and…
On July 7, 2014 at approximately 0240 hours, the Amador County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 Emergency Call from a 27 year old female resident of Pioneer stating that there had been an altercation at a residence located in the 15000 block of Pioneer Creek Road in Pioneer and that her 26 year old boyfriend was bleeding. Amador County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the scene and found the 26 year old male in the driveway…
Come Celebrate Jose's Mexican Restaurant's 31st anniversary on July 9th, 2014.
In recognition of the many contributions that the Cowboy has made and is still making to Amador County and the State of California. The Amador County Fair (www.AmadorCountyFair.com) July 24-27, 2014, will feature special events and acknowledgements for “NATIONAL DAY OF THE COWBOY.” (www.nationaldayofthecowboy.com.) On June 7, 2012, the California Senate voted to award permanent status to the fourth Saturday in July as “National Day of the Cowboy”. Many other states and counties throughout the…
PLYMOUTH, CA. Where else, but the Amador County Fair can you meet a wheelwright who traveled the United States by covered wagon and a rifle-toting Mountain Man shopping on the midway, then listen to music from The Eagles, George Strait, and The Spazmatics. The Amador County Fair, July 24-27th, is an amazing collection of old and new, traditional and trendy. You can gorge on the once-a-year guilty pleasure of Fair Food, then taste fine award-winning…
ON JULY 4, 2014, AT APPROXIMATELY 1215 HOURS, KIRBY WAS DRIVING HIS VEHICLE (FORD) N/B ON THE CAMP GROUND ACCESS RD. OF LAKE ALPINE WEST CAMP. KIRBY WAS PULLING HIS VEHICLE OFF THE ROAD, INTO THE DRIVEWAY AT CAMP SPACE 11, TO LET OTHER VEHICLES BY. AS KIRBY WAS DOING THIS, HE ACCELERATED INTO THE DRIVEWAY TOO FAST. AS A RESULT, THE FORD PICK UP LUNGED FORWARD AND COLLIDED WITH JOYNER, WHO WAS OUTSIDE OF…
LEWIS WAS TRAVELING NORTH ON HOGAN DAM ROAD, APPROACHING THE CALAVERAS RIVER BRIDGE AT AN UNKNOWN SPEED. AS LEWIS WAS NEGOTIATING A CURVE TO HER RIGHT, SHE LOST CONTROL OF HER VEHICLE AND ALLOWED IT TO RUN OFF THE WEST SIDE OF THE ROAD AT THE SOUTH BRIDGE ABUTMENT. LEWIS’ VEHICLE WENT OVER A TWENTY FOOT TALL CONCRETE WALL AND LANDED UPSIDE DOWN IN THE CALAVERAS RIVER, IN APPROXIMATELY THREE FEET OF WATER. LEWIS WAS…
ON 07/06/2014 AT APPROXIMATELY 1750 HOURS, PARTY-1 (P-1) (GOMEZ) WAS DRIVING VEHICLE-1 (V-1) (TOYOTA) SOUTHBOUND ON SIX MILE ROAD, NEAR IRONSTONE VINEYARDS, AT AN UNKNOWN RATE OF SPEED. FOR UNKNOWN REASONS P-1 WAS UNABLE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF V-1. V-1 LEFT THE ROADWAY, OVERTURNED, AND LANDED ON ITS ROOF. BOTH PARTIES REMAINED IN THE VEHICLE UNTIL EMERGENCY PERSONNEL ARRIVED ON SCENE AND ASSISTED IN EXTRICATING THEM FROM THE VEHICLE. PASSENGER-LANDERS SUFFERED MAJOR INJURIES AS A…
Free with Summer Youth Bus Pass or Monthly Pass Kids 5 years and under ride free! Only $1 for Seniors, Students under 18, and people with disabilities…$2 General fare Free parking at the Sutter Hill Transit Center! Call 267-9395 to help plan your trip to the Amador County Fair.
Yosemite Sesquicentennial Celebration June 30, 1864 I want to thank all of you who have worked so long and hard to make this sesquicentennial celebration of the original Yosemite Grant Act so moving. The earliest description of this valley comes to us from Dr. Lafayette Bunnell, a member of the Mariposa Battalion that pursued a band of Ahwaneechies into the valley in 1851. He wrote, “Domes, peaks, spires, and cliffs were capped with fresh snow,…
