Vallecito News

Dixie School District's fall visitation day is set for 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at all district elementary schools and 10:30 a.m. at Miller Creek Middle School.

I've written about walking the beautiful Monterey recreation trail and tasting wine along the way to Cannery Row.

Oct. 6, 2009 BOOK REVIEW: 'Racing Toward Armageddon' Fundamentalists in the Three Abrahamic Religions are Working to Bring About the Battle of Armageddon Reviewed By David M. Kinchen Huntingtonnews.net Book Critic A secularist or even a mainstream religion believer who finishes Michael Baigent's "Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions ...

CAL Fire's Emergency Command Center is reporting the Salamander Creek Drainage Fire in Calaveras County has now burned approximately one acre.

A catalytic converter on a deer hunter's vehicle was the cause of a five acre fire in the 2800 block of Willow Creek Rd.

Before casting votes to convert a mobile home park from rentals to owner-occupied spaces, members of the Thousand Oaks City Council described the decision as sad and said they felt terrible.

A controversial proposal to convert a mobile home park from rentals to owner-occupied spaces will go before the Thousand Oaks City Council tonight.

Artist Robert Atkinson, of Vallecito, helped found the Calaveras County Arts Council in the 1980s.

The Douglas Flat School is looking more and more like it did when first built in 1854.

Three candidates will campaign this fall to fill the remaining year of late Angels Camp City Councilman Paul Raggio's term on the council: Betty Raggio, 75, a retired Caltrans office technician and the widow of Paul Raggio; George Fry, 63, a retired parole officer, and Rick Downey, 52, a semi-retired former business owner, filed for the vacancy ...

Children in the northern half of Calaveras County will return to class today to find their schools - including popular programs such as music and small elementary class sizes - pretty much the same as last year.

Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, will speak at Moaning Cavern in Vallecito on Aug.

Now this is the kind of shortcut that would make a physicist sit up and take note: a new highway that by its mere existence reduces the distance between two points.

The 60th Murphys Homecoming is set to be held Saturday at Murphys Community Park on Algiers Street.

A second case of "swine flu" has surfaced in Calaveras County this week.. A 16-year-old Angels Camp resident is recovering from the flu, technically called Novel H1N1 influenza, the Calaveras County Public Health Department reported Wednesday.

The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider authorizing an agreement with an engineer for the early stages of closing a portion of the Rock Creek Landfill.

The San Joaquin County Office of Education has been awarded a $400,000 grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help provide job training and education to 14- through 24-year-olds who are considered at-risk to join gangs or are trying to leave gangs.

John Vierra independent study high school in Vallecito has gained its first-ever accreditation.

A half-marathon is scheduled Sunday, July 5, at Twisted Oak Winery in Vallecito, Calif., about three hours of southwest of Reno in Calaveras County.

The sponsor of a proposed ballot initiative that would establish rent control at El Dorado Mobile Estates in Fillmore has asked the California Secretary of State's office to investigate allegations that signature gatherers for a rival initiative misled some registered voters into signing it.