March 10, 2010 12:00 am
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A new, long-awaited Tractor Supply Company store is set to open at 8 a.m. Saturday. The store, part of a national chain based in Brentwood, Tenn., caters largely to rural landowners and is the anchor tenant in a new shopping center in Standard. The address is 14879 Mono Way. It will be the first store to open in the 40,000-square-foot multi-building shopping center. |
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March 04, 2010 11:49 am
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Tuolumne County’s Economic Development Authority director landed in Sonora last year in the thick of the nation’s most spectacular economic collapse since the Great Depression. Locally, Mervyns and Gottschalks had closed. Sierra Pacific Industries was in the process of shuttering its saw mill in Standard.
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February 24, 2010 12:00 am
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By WALT COOK The Union Democrat
Local Internet service providers are scrambling to secure state and federal funds that will enable them to improve connection speeds in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties, and beyond. If the plans — possibly involving tower upgrades and new fiber-optic cables — come to fruition, the days of slow dial-up service, all that’s available in some parts of the Mother Lode, could soon be over. |
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February 17, 2010 12:00 am
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Angels Camp’s Roy Mayben is turning the tables on a learning barrier faced by many special-education students, and building a business in the process. A special education teacher for the Tuolumne County Independent Living Skills Program housed at Sonora High School, Mayben started developing the Desktop Desk several years ago for one particular student.
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February 10, 2010 12:00 am
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A unique Tuolumne County wood-shavings plant is hoping to carve out a larger share of the market for animal bedding, adding new technology. California Wood Shavings, on La Grange Road, which is already the state’s only free-standing shavings plant, is adding a two-story-tall baling machine to bag its product.
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