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The Bret Harte High School drama department will perform a musical to end all musicals — literally.

The students will perform “2012: The Musical to End All Musicals,” at 7 p.m. March 18 to 21 with an additional matinee at 2 p.m. March 21 at the Bret Harte Theater in Angels Camp.
 

A state program that offers loans secured by tax assessments to homeowners for green energy projects ranging from sealing leaky ducts to installing fuel cells is one vote closer to coming to Calaveras County.

To the applause of an audience composed primarily of contractors and home inspectors specializing in energy efficiency work, the Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday in symbolic support of pursuing the program.
 

The Calaveras Unified School District governing board voted Tuesday night to issue layoff notices to two dozen teachers.

The vote was 4-0, with Trustee Hank Nagle absent.
 

 Sonora High School staff say the school’s first Wildcat Round Up was a success.

The event was held Wednesday for all elementary school students bound for Sonora High next year. They took placement tests, met teachers and learned about student life at Sonora High School.
   

The California Department of Water Resources conducted its March measurement of the Sierra snowpack Wednesday, and said it is normal.

Manual and electronic readings indicated the water content in California’s mountain snowpack is 107 percent of normal to date. This time last year, snow water content statewide was 80 percent of normal, said a DWR press statement Wednesday.
 

Rene Garcia often rides the 25 miles to and from Angels Camp to Murphys and along Dogtown Road as a workout for the upcoming competition. Maggie Beck/Union Democrat, copyright 2010

The exuberant 25-year-old substitute teacher will compete Nov. 21 in Tempe, Ariz., and swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles and run 26.2 miles.
 

The Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors got an update Tuesday on the next stage of the East Sonora Bypass.

The project, which runs from Peaceful Oak Road to Via Este, is set to begin in December and be complete by December 2012. It is designed to ease traffic congestion along Mono Way, which now doubles as Highway 108 beyond Peaceful Oak.
  

The Tuolumne City Sanitary District board Wednesday night took steps to get the agency back on solid financial and legal footing.

Much of the meeting involved a discussion between directors and the audience regarding the competence of the former board, which involved the district in a controversial agreement that freed the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians from a $2.9 million sewer bill last fall; whether that agreement is valid; the billing methods of the district’s former attorney and whether district affairs should be an investigated.
   

An Angels Camp councilman’s concerns over city payments to local fishing tournaments were resolved amicably Tuesday.

Councilman Craig Turco had requested the council reexamine a $6,000 payment toward fishing tournaments at New Melones Reservoir because he did not feel it went through the proper city processes.