Sierra Pacific Industries’ Quincy sawmill — one of several SPI closed last year — is slated to reopen in May, but don’t look for the Standard Mill to open any time soon, an SPI spokesman said Monday.

A different set of circumstances surround the two mills, SPI’s Mark Pawlicki said. The Standard Mill wound down operations from May to September and is currently shuttered.
   

State Senate candidate Heidi Fuller, of Columbia, has re-filed a lawsuit claiming one of her opponents is violating district-residency rules.

Fuller, 46, filed a petition with the Sacramento County Superior Court on Friday, asking the court to uphold a section of the state constitution that says a person is ineligible to be a member of the Legislature unless he or she has been a resident of the legislative district for at least a year.
  

Trevor Larson, charged in connection with the September crash that killed a Jamestown man was sentenced  Monday to 10 months in Tuolumne County Jail.

The 19-year-old Valley Springs man was handcuffed in the courtroom to await transport to jail. He was also sentenced to five years of felony probation.
 

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Visitors now can pack heat in any national park, from Gates of the Arctic to Everglades, provided they comply with the firearms laws of the park’s home state, according to the new law that was passed as an amendment to credit-card legislation.
   

Two sibling Tuolumne City Sanitary District Board members were criticized for mucking up the district’s finances and holding personal grudges, then were asked to resign by their chairman at a special board meeting Friday night.

“I don’t want to see personal vendettas,” Chairman Evan Royce said after the accusations came from a fellow board member and an employee. “Somehow, things have gotten out of hand. I think it would be more constructive if you guys resigned.”    
  

aturday morning, Larry DeCosta (left), of the Federal Aviation Administration, and Eliott Simpson, of the National Transportation Safety Board, walked around the wreckage of the plane crash that killed two people. Maggie Beck/Union Democrat

Authorities over the weekend identified the pilot as Albert Halluin, 70, of Palo Alto, a bio-technology patent lawyer, and his passenger as Judy Perchonock Alberts, 60.

The couple had reportedly set out from San Carlos Airport to visit Halluin’s cabin near Yosemite for the weekend, which they often did.

They were due to be married in May, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jeff Wilson said, based on radio contact with the pilot before the crash, it appears Halluin missed the approach to Pine Mountain Lake the first time around and hit a treetop during his second attempt, causing a fuel leak. The fuel ignited, causing the flames, reported eyewitnesses.
   

Tap dance and ballet lessons, Campfire Girls and library books were among memories related as visitors toured the Tuolumne City Memorial Museum on Saturday.

Eve (Mae Hill) Pecchenino, formerly of Tuolumne and now of Stockton, and Bernice (Dahl) Miller, of Tuolumne, hugged when they saw each other for the first time in several years at the museum on Saturday.

Both recall happy childhood activities during the 1930s at the Tuolumne Women’s Improvement Clubhouse, which is now the Tuolumne City Memorial Museum, at Carter Street and Bay Avenue.
   

Tuolumne County residents’ level of health ranks just below the middle of the pack when compared to the rest of California, according to a new report.

Tuolumne ranked 29th out of 56 counties in a survey, known as “health outcomes,” of how long residents live and how healthy they feel during their lives, according to “County Health Rankings,” a report by the University of Wisconsin.

The county ranked 32nd in terms of “health factors,” or how personal behaviors, physical environment, social or economic status and clinical care access affect their health.
   

The 19th Congressional District race has its first official candidate, even as heavyweights and relative unknowns continue to raise funds and gather endorsements.

Fresno City Councilman Larry Westerlund paid the fee and declared his candidacy on the opening day for filing, Feb. 16.

Although other big-name Republicans, including former congressman Richard Pombo, California State Sen. Jeff Denham, and former Fresno Mayor Jim Patterson have begun campaigning, none have officially declared their candidacy. The filing period is open until March 12.
   

A staff presentation on Calaveras County’s current finances and upcoming budget will dominate the agenda at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors’ meeting.

As of Friday, county staff members were still hustling to complete preparations for next week’s study session, so detailed information was not available.

But falling real estate values and a crippling California budget deficit that has led the state Legislature to hold back on dispersing various funds to counties, promise to complicate the board’s calculations.