August 31, 2010 05:04 am
How many times have you heard the refrain, “How can I find a good mechanic around here?”
Anyone who has lived in Tuolumne or Calaveas county for awhile knows that plenty of well-qualified mechanics are doing business in the Mother Lode, and are happy to tell anyone who asks about their favorite.
But here’s great news: That list of excellent auto mechanics has just grown by at least a half-dozen.
Six of Calaveras High School auto shop teacher Chris Sedler’s students just carried away top honors at a Laguna Seca Raceway competition sponsored by the Edelbrock carburetor company.
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August 24, 2010 10:50 am
Preposterous, pie in the sky, far-fetched, unrealistic.
These are but a few of the adjectives that describe to Modesto developer Vince Estell’s vision for the arid, toxic remains of a 1980s open-pit mining operation west of Jamestown.
These days, with temperatures nudging the century mark and shade in short supply, the 765-acre mine — close to 500 acres of which are owned by Tuolumne County — seems as unlikely site for one of Northern California’s premiere tourist attractions.
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August 20, 2010 05:50 am
More than 11,600 Tuolumne and Calaveras county public school students began classes this week.
It’s an end-of-summer ritual that dates back generations and decades. It’s a chance to renew friendships, meet new teachers and begin or build on a years-long learning process that, ideally, will lead to careers, accomplishment, and even fame and fortune.
But the 2010-11 school year also begins with challenges unlike those faced here in the past. They are challenges and could impact the very mission of our schools.
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August 19, 2010 09:36 am
Joan Smith, Columbia College’s president, is leaving the school after just four years to become the Yosemite Community College District’s interim chancellor.
But, as her impressive promotion might evidence, Smith’s tenure here was productive:
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August 06, 2010 10:37 am
While Tuolumne County Administrator Craig Pedro, his staff and the county’s fire chiefs are hard at work drafting a comprehensive protection plan and response plan, voters and districts are also shaping the future.
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August 03, 2010 05:22 am
Build it and they will come.
The treasured line from the movie “Field of Dreams” has a double meaning in Calaveras County, where two important construction projects are moving forward.
Yes, the county’s inmates will come to the new, 280-bed jail in San Andreas — although few will be happy there is suddenly room at the new inn.
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July 30, 2010 07:27 am
Tuolumne County Superintendent Joe Silva will in September repeat what has become a familiar pilgrimage: He will fly to Washington, D.C. to lobby for renewal of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, which expires next year.
Behind the act’s euphemistic, bureaucratic name is hard, cold cash.
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July 26, 2010 01:05 pm
It’s like seeing Isaac Newton’s apple fall back up into the tree.
For the inexorable rise of government fees, you see, is like gravity in reverse.
The law seems as immutable as Newton’s: When all costs, prices and
inflation indices around us fall, fees still rise — as if driven by
laws of physics that no mere mortal can change.
Until now.
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July 13, 2010 09:04 am
As it will save the Sonora High School District about $20,000 a year, the move makes financial sense.
School trustees in April voted to move the district office from the stately and historic Sonora Dome to a far smaller building on Sonora High’s Shaws Flat Road campus. Nobody challenged the plan, rightfully reasoning that every dollar saved to pay teachers and educate students in this era of limits is justified.
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