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23 hrs ago | RecordNET

Budget ax spares Calaveras County schools for time being

The economic pain afflicting public schools up and down California won't be felt in classrooms in Calaveras Unified School District.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Sacramento, CA, Sacramento Metro, San Joaquin County, CA

Thu Jul 02, 2009

RecordNET

Not-guilty plea entered in Lode shooting

Robert Friend, 58, of Valley Springs pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge of attempted murder in the Saturday shooting of a man who shared his Valley Springs home.

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Related Topix: Valley Springs, CA, Carmichael, CA

Wed Jul 01, 2009

RecordNET

Police say financial dispute led to shooting

A Valley Springs man remained in critical condition Monday after having been shot in the abdomen over the weekend during what the Calaveras County Sheriff's Department described as a dispute with his roommate.

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Related Topix: Valley Springs, CA, Rancho Calaveras, CA

Tue Jun 30, 2009

My Mother Lode

Shooting Victim Remains In Critical Condition

According to the Calaveras County Sheriff's Department, Ferrier was shot by his roomate, 58 year old Robert Friend.

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Related Topix: Valley Springs, CA, Rancho Calaveras, CA

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Union Democrat

County's jobless rate still climbing

After rising in tandem for months, Calaveras and Tuolumne counties' unemployment rates have taken different courses.

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Related Topix: Tuolumne County, CA

Sun Jun 28, 2009

KXTV

Blaze Burns 200 Acres in Rural Calaveras County

Crews were battling a 200-acre blaze burning in a remote area of Calaveras County Sunday near the community of Milton, a Cal Fire official said.

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Related Topix: Fire

Sat Jun 27, 2009

My Mother Lode

Calaveras D.A. Scheduled To Lose Two Positions

For the second year in a row the Calaveras County District Attorney's Office is being asked to eliminate two staff positions.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

RGJ.com

Half marathon scheduled for July 5 in Calaveras County, Calif.

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.

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Related Topix: Vallecito, CA

RecordNET

No money for old county registery

The Calaveras County Archives is famous for storing historic gems such as a letter written by Mark Twain and a hotel guest register from the 1800s bearing the signatures of Ulysses S. Grant and Charles Bolton, who is better known as the stagecoach robber Black Bart.

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Related Topix: History in the News, San Andreas, CA, Angels Camp, CA

Thu Jun 25, 2009

RecordNET

Survey shows ambivalence over Calaveras road repairs

Calaveras County residents want safe, functional roads, but not enough of them are willing to pay for a road construction bond to make passage possible any time soon, according to a telephone survey of 500 county voters completed in May and June.

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Related Topix: Valley Springs, CA

Wed Jun 24, 2009

My Mother Lode

Tuolumne County Supervisors On Hiatus For Two Weeks

While the Calaveras County supervisors will spend a long day with a regularly scheduled meeting and continued budget hearings, the lights will be dark at the Board of Supervisors Chambers at the County Administration Center on S. Green St.

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Related Topix: Tuolumne County, CA

Tue Jun 23, 2009

RecordNET

Calaveras proposes 'bleak' budget

Calaveras County's seven branch libraries will likely close, and almost a dozen Sheriff's Department employees will be laid off, along with dozens of employees from other county departments, under a proposed budget County Administrative Officer Bob Lawton described Monday as "probably the most bleak in many years." Lawton opened this week's public ...

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Related Topix: San Andreas, CA

Mon Jun 22, 2009

My Mother Lode

Budget Shortfall Hits Calaveras County Cal WORKs Program

At least eight members of the Calaveras County CalWORKs program have lost their jobs due to budget reductions from the state.

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Sun Jun 21, 2009

My Mother Lode

Tuolumne County Supervisors Set For Final June Meeting

The divestiture of VNA-Hospice of the Sierra from county rolls will highlight the Tuesday supervisorial meeting at the County Administration Center.

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Related Topix: Tuolumne County, CA, Sonora, CA, Amador County, CA

Sat Jun 20, 2009

Union Democrat

Candidates lined up in Calaveras

The ballot is almost set for a late-summer vote in Calaveras County. Twenty-six utility and service "special district" boards around the county have seats up for grabs in this election cycle.

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Related Topix: Avery, CA, Mokelumne Hill, CA, Copperopolis, CA, Angels Camp, CA, Mountain Ranch, CA

Fri Jun 19, 2009

RecordNET

Staffing new jail puts another crimp in Calaveras' budget

Calaveras County will have to raise an additional $4 million to $5.6 million a year to staff the larger jail that will be finished and go into operation in 2012.

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Thu Jun 18, 2009

Union Democrat

County officials spar over sheriff's budget

A war of words is developing between Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Chairman Russ Thomas and Sheriff Dennis Downum regarding budget issues.

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Wed Jun 17, 2009

Union Democrat

County ag revenues down 6 percent in '08

Both the quantity and quality of Calaveras County agricultural production dropped in 2008, according to the latest report from county officials.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Murphys, CA, Angels Camp, CA

Tue Jun 16, 2009

My Mother Lode

Calaveras County Supervisors To Approve May 19 Election Results

Not unlike Tuolumne County the Calaveras County supervisors will accept the canvass of the May 19th Special Election at their San Andreas meeting today.

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Related Topix: Tuolumne County, CA, San Andreas, CA, Sutter County, CA

Union Democrat

Fees stifle affordable housing in county

Too many regulatory hoops stand in the way of creating affordable housing in Calaveras County.

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Related Topix: San Andreas, CA, West Point, CA, Valley Springs, CA, Copperopolis, CA

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