Calaveras County’s long-planned jail and Sheriff’s Department quarters will be the topic of a Board of Supervisor’s study session Tuesday.

Groundbreaking for the estimated $43.9 million project is slated as early as October, but it faces a number of uncertainties going forward, according to a staff report.
 

 Angels Camp politician George Fry gave his side of the story Thursday following criticism by family members of a brain-damaged woman he took to San Diego and left there.

The woman, Marita Anttila, 44, was found last Monday by police in San Diego after a three-day search.
   

 Angels Camp politician George Fry gave his side of the story Thursday following criticism by family members of a brain-damaged woman he took to San Diego and left there.

The woman, Marita Anttila, 44, was found last Monday by police in San Diego after a three-day search.
   

Tuolumne Utilities District directors will discuss Tuolumne County’s five-year strategic plan when they meet Tuesday.

Board members told General Manager Pete Kampa at their last meeting to arrange for the TUD board’s involvement in the plan’s development, now under way.
 

Federal land management issues are set to be part of the discussion at Tuesday’s Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors meeting.

First, supervisors will consider drafting a comment letter in response the U.S. Forest Service’s intent to prepare an environmental impact statement for a proposed management rule for the national forest system. The new rule will impact how the country’s 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands are managed for years to come.
   

Tuolumne County transportation officials are hoping a second multibillion-dollar stimulus bill being mulled in Congress will provide funding for the next phase of the East Sonora Bypass.

The two-mile project, designed to ease traffic congestion along Mono Way, which doubles as Highway 108 in East Sonora, was originally set to be funded largely through state bonds.

Kris Carpenter, a member of Sonora Seventh-day Adventist Church, is an emergency medical technician.

Kris Carpenter, 26, son of Kevin and Colleen Carpenter, flew to Florida on Jan. 14, then the Dominican Republic, and reached Haiti Jan. 17 by Blackhawk helicopter.
 

Warren Freedlan, 78, of Copperopolis, died in a two-car crash on Highway 4 west of Shirley Road Friday afternoon. and two other people were injured.  

Angels Camp residents will not see their water rates increase this month.

The City Council on Tuesday suspended a 12 percent water rate increase due to take effect in late February.
 

Angels Camp’s chief water and wastewater plant operator resigned this week, a fortnight after receiving a warning for alleged insubordination.

Carol Woolf will go on vacation beginning today and officially retire March 13.