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Cars, Cops and Coffee Event To Benefit Cancer Patients
Sonora, CA — This weekend’s Mother Lode Views features the 3rd annual Cars, Cops and Coffee event to benefit local cancer patients. To give us all the details on this family-friendly, free event, our guests are Andee Keller, Philanthropy Director, and Christy Casey, Administrative Director of Oncology and Diagnostic Imaging, both from Adventist Health Sonora, and Turu Vanderweil, Sonora’s Police Chief.
California’s Population Increases: Mixed Results In Mother Lode
Sacramento, CA — State officials are touting that California’s population increased for the first time in three years. On January 1st of this year, the state’s population was just over 39.1 million, a rise of 67,000 from one year prior. California lost population in 2020 for the first time on record, and the downward trend continued for three consecutive years.
CHP Identifies Groveland Man Killed In Truck Accident
Tuolumne County, CA – The CHP has released the name of the Groveland man killed in a truck accident on Old Priest Grade yesterday morning. The deceased is 68-year-old Gordon Ralph Glasson. We reported on Thursday that the fatality happened around 8:40 a.m. while at the stop sign near the bottom of the grade and Highway 120. The CHP detailed that Glasson, driving a 2023 Ford F150 Lightning electric pickup, was getting out of the truck when it began to roll forward, running him over. The pickup then went off the roadway, smashing into several fences, and came to rest in an open field.
Burn Permits Required Starting Today
Sonora, CA — Burning outside a home in Tuolumne and Calaveras County requires a burn permit, effective eight o’clock this morning. The change comes as temperatures start to warm up and vegetation begins to dry out. Burn permits are only available online, by clicking here. Applicants will need...
Bridge Improvements In Calaveras County Could Impact HWY 4
Vallecito, CA – Bridge improvements will disrupt traffic in the Douglas Flat area between Murphys and Vallecito in Calaveras County. Local contractor KW Emerson, Inc. based in San Andreas has been hired by the county public works department to make the improvements to the bridge on Monge Ranch Road, off Highway 4 beginning next week. Residents along that roadway and Thompson Road can expect short delays when the work starts on Monday, May 6th, and will continue through late June. Traffic at the intersection of Highway 4 could also be slowed when work is taking place there.
College chums co-created and co-curate artisan Murphys ‘mini department store’
Fourteen years after taking the tandem plunge to open a retail store in downtown Murphys during the Great Recession, two friends with ties going back to their 1980s college days, are still working together. Jewelry designer Linda Trent, a Bear Valley resident and artisan since 1998, laughs, “We were told,...
Calaveras secures a season sweep of Bret Harte on the softball diamond
For the 36th game in a row, the Calaveras High School softball team picked up a victory over the Bret Harte Bullfrogs. Calaveras beat Bret Harte 10-1 on Friday afternoon in Angels Camp. The Red Hawks scored three runs in the top of the first inning, then added one run...
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