Firefighters continue to battle or monitor several fires in Yosemite National Park.
The biggest actively burning fire is the Dark Hole Fire. The fire, sparked by lightning in mid-July near the Yosemite Creek Campground, has burned 1,080 acres. It was about 75 percent contained this morning.![]()
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Fires still burn slowly in Yosemite
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Letters to the Editor for August 18, 2014
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News of Record for August 18, 2014
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Grass fire in Sonora
A small grass fire burned a half-acre Tuesday near the Tuolumne County Department of Social Services building on Cedar Road North in Sonora.
The fire was reported at 12:21 p.m. and was contained by 1:30 p.m., according Cal Fire spokesman Mike Spear.
Resources dispatched to the area included two Tuolumne County Fire Department engines, three Cal Fire engines, one Sonora City Fire Department engine, two Cal Fire hand crews and two air tankers as a precautionary measure.
The fire’s cause is under investigation. No injuries or structure damage was reported.![]()
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Yosemite plan may target backcountry camps
The National Park Service is developing a plan to manage the wilderness areas within Yosemite National Park that could affect the five popular High Sierra Camps, according to park officials.
The NPS will seek input sometime this year on the tentatively titled “Yosemite Wilderness Stewardship Plan,” according to park planning documents. Yosemite spokeswoman Kari Cobb said the process is currently in its “infancy stages” and she wasn’t sure what effect it would have on the park’s High Sierra Camps.![]()
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Worst of Mono Way work done
Though most of the work on the Mono Way widening project in Sonora has yet to come, the city’s chief engineer said the work that most impacted drivers is done.
City Engineer Gerard Fuccillo said that, as of Monday, the project is about one-third complete. However, Fuccillo described the remaining work as a “gentle slope” with the culvert replacement that closed a short stretch of the busy road completed.![]()
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Sonora fire chief hiring discussed
Sonora leaders are concerned that the city’s next fire chief will not be required to live in or immediately near the city limits. But there’s not much they can do about it.
The Sonora City Council on Monday approved changes to the official job description for the chief, which included removing the residency clause that required the chief to live within 15 minutes of normal driving time to the city fire department. The job description will be used to recruit a new, permanent chief to replace Mike Barrows who retired earlier this year.![]()
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Climber dies in Yosemite
A 36-year-old rock climber died Saturday after falling roughly 300 feet from a climbing route in Yosemite National Park, according to park spokeswoman Kari Cobb.
Brad Parker, of Sebastopol, was free soloing the Matthes Crest Traverse in the Tuolumne Meadows area of the park, Cobb said. Witnesses saw him fall at approximately 5:45 p.m.![]()
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News of Record for August 19, 2014
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Letters to the Editor for August 19, 2014
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Obituaries for August 19, 2014
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Columbia’s Penwell remembers trip of a lifetime
Forty-five years ago today, Carleton Penwell, of Columbia, was making his way cross-country in the trip of a lifetime, “Around the states in 80 days.”
This summer Penwell is taking a trip down memory lane that spanned 50 states, meetings with 35 governors and a lifetime of lessons learned.![]()
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TUD wrestles with shortfall
The Tuolumne Utilities District Finance Committee would like to cover a projected revenue shortfall using money originally set aside to pay back the district’s Sewer Fund.
Finance Committee members Mike Sarno and Delbert Rotelli, who both serve on the TUD board, directed district staff at a meeting Tuesday to determine whether some of the lost revenue could be made up using a portion of about $1.6 million for sewer labor during the current fiscal year that lasts through June 30, 2015.![]()
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Calaveras delays vote on cutbacks
The Calaveras Unified School District Board of Trustees did not choose Tuesday to close schools or eliminate sports and music districtwide, but those drastic cuts are still on the table when the board votes again Saturday.
More than 300 people attended the board meeting of Calaveras County’s largest school district, many speaking passionately about the need for sports and music and some threatening to transfer their students if the cuts go through.![]()
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Lack of water brings early fall
Fall has arrived about a month earlier than usual because of the 2014 drought and the Mother Lode area is spotted with colors as trees go dormant to survive.
Tuolumne and Calaveras counties experienced an all-around “shift in the seasons,” according to Martin MacKenzie, forest pathologist for Stanislaus National Forest.![]()
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Letters to the Editor for August 20, 2014
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Obituaries for August 20, 2014
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News of Record for August 20, 2014
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Guitarist to star in series finale
The Twisted Folk Concert Series in Vallecito will go out swinging on Saturday.
Twisted Oak Winery’s sixth and final summer show will feature the John Jorgenson Quintet, specializing in Gypsy jazz in the style of Django Reinhardt. The quintet is the only American act ever to headline the Django Reinhardt Memorial Festival in France.![]()
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Datebook for Aug, 21-27
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