Gary Jakobs, a consultant with Ascent Environmental hired by Calaveras County, confers with Peter Maurer, county planning director, on Wednesday during a special board meeting on cannabis in San Andreas. - union democrat Gary Jakobs, a consultant with Ascent Environmental hired by Calaveras County, confers with Peter Maurer, county planning director, on Wednesday during a special board meeting on cannabis in San Andreas.
Three .22 caliber shell casings that could fit in a rifle were found away from the location where three men were killed at a marijuana farm just outside of Mountain Ranch in October 2015, a private investigator testified Wednesday. Matt Thompson, one of eight defense witnesses called Wednesday, said they were found under grass but on top of the ground.
Early last Monday morning, a friend of mine sent news that a tree we knew, a sequoia, had collapsed in a winter mountain storm. I was in New York, where two inches of hard snow sat on cars and tree branches that themselves looked like death.
The 54-year-old for decades has been on the forefront - and background - of political movements in Calaveras County, California and the U.S. So it was a given that she'd play a role in a recent women's movement that has attracted thousands of people to come together after the presidential election. Boblet is one of the organizers of Women's March in Sacramento, one of the several rallies planned across the country on Saturday.
Early figures suggest that the number of registered voters in Tuolumne County is still lagging behind the total for the presidential election in 2012, while Calaveras County is up about 1 percent from four years ago. Mother Lode election officials are preparing a 15-day voter registration count following Monday's deadline to register for the Nov. 8 presidential election.
Progress on a 950 square foot house inside the Butte fire zone has been made sporadically. Construction for the house, led by non-proft group Calaveras Recovers, began in May and is expected to be completed by the holiday season Rich Garrity, who lost his Mountain Ranch home in the 2015 Butte Fire, stands in front of a house being built for him in the same location by non-profit group Calaveras Recovers.
Jeff Crovitz, director of Calaveras County Public Works, speaks to the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Tuesday. He said a committee of three all ranked Phillips & Jordan Inc. the best of the four options competing for the hazard tree removal contract.