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Managers' benefits untouched for now

Stockton Record Local News - September 8, 2010 - 7:27pm

SAN ANDREAS - Calaveras Unified School District trustees wrestled Wednesday night with the question of whether to eliminate a retirement benefit offered to top administrators and confidential employees but not to other district workers. In the end, they...

Appeals court to hear cases at school

Stockton Record Local News - September 8, 2010 - 7:22pm

SAN ANDREAS - California's 3rd District Court of Appeal will for the first time hold one of its sessions in Calaveras County.

Calaveras Unified postpones fate of small school

Stockton Record Local News - September 7, 2010 - 7:16pm

SAN ANDREAS - The Calaveras Unified School District Board of Trustees on Tuesday night delayed for a month any decision on whether to close Rail Road Flat Elementary School.

Calaveras dissolves half of subdivision

Stockton Record Local News - September 7, 2010 - 7:14pm

SAN ANDREAS - In a rare procedure, the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors reversed part of a subdivision Tuesday, creating a single lot near Lake Tulloch where there had been 38 home lots ranging from a half-acre to over 2 acres.

Home invasion suspect arrested

Stockton Record Local News - September 7, 2010 - 7:04pm

VALLEY SPRINGS - The Calaveras County Sheriff's Department has arrested a man suspected of involvement in a home invasion Aug. 30 in which a Valley Springs man was injured.

Calaveras County warns about grape quarantine

Stockton Record Local News - September 7, 2010 - 5:52pm

SAN ANDREAS - The Calaveras County Department of Agriculture is calling on home winemakers in the county to do their part to prevent the spread of the European grapevine moth, a pest that has already devastated some vineyards in Napa County.

Final Valley Springs community plan may not carry much weight

Stockton Record Local News - September 4, 2010 - 8:30pm

VALLEY SPRINGS - At most, only parts of a $255,000 community plan for Valley Springs are ever likely to be used by the county officials who actually make land-use decisions.

Calaveras labor pact calls for 4.6% pay cut

Stockton Record Local News - September 4, 2010 - 8:30pm

SAN ANDREAS - Calaveras County government employees other than those in law enforcement will see their pay cut 4.6 percent and will take off 12 unpaid days per year under a tentative labor agreement approved by Calaveras County unit of Service Employees...

Lode school locked down

Stockton Record Local News - September 3, 2010 - 8:54pm

JENNY LIND - Jenny Lind Elementary School students were locked in their classrooms for a brief period at about noon Thursday while Calaveras County Sheriff's Department deputies searched for a reported gunman who turned out to be a child playing with a...

A tale of two Lode economies

Stockton Record Local News - September 3, 2010 - 8:28pm

SAN ANDREAS - Someone forgot to tell Larry Cope that there's a devastating recession under way.

Who's dumping carcasses fouling popular creek?

Stockton Record Local News - September 2, 2010 - 6:26pm

RAIL ROAD FLAT - You'll smell the gulch before you see it.

Angels Camp city manager is one-man band

Stockton Record Local News - September 1, 2010 - 7:30pm

ANGELS CAMP - Already-small city governments in Mother Lode communities such as Angels Camp and Sutter Creek have been shrinking over the last year - and largely from the top.

Calaveras deputies seeking suspect in home invasion

Stockton Record Local News - August 31, 2010 - 8:26pm

VALLEY SPRINGS - The Calaveras County Sheriff's Department is looking for a 28-year-old man suspected of involvement in a violent home invasion robbery Monday morning.

Death row suicide

Stockton Record Local News - August 30, 2010 - 7:42pm

SAN ANDREAS - Convicted killer George Hatton Smithey took his own life Saturday morning in his cell on death row at San Quentin State Prison, just days after a judge had commuted his death sentence to life in prison.

Make a splash at aquatic center

Stockton Record Local News - August 30, 2010 - 7:34pm

ANGELS CAMP - The Bret Harte Aquatic Center will open Saturday, the center's director announced last week.

Calaveras death row inmate, 70, found dead at San Quentin

Stockton Record Local News - August 30, 2010 - 4:26am

SAN QUENTIN (AP) — A 70-year-old inmate on death row at California State Prison in San Quentin is dead after authorities say he committed suicide.

Keeping public lands like New Hogan looking new

Stockton Record Local News - August 29, 2010 - 7:57pm

VALLEY SPRINGS - Volunteers are playing a bigger role this year in cleaning and maintaining trails, campgrounds and other facilities at New Hogan Lake.

Calaveras deal would provide $26M for jail

Stockton Record Local News - August 27, 2010 - 8:49pm

SAN ANDREAS - The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors has agreed to a complex lease financing deal under which the state government will provide more than $26 million to build a 160-bed jail.

Rival agencies move forward on Lode trail

Stockton Record Local News - August 26, 2010 - 8:49pm

SAN ANDREAS - A stretch of yet-to-be-built trail less than a half-mile long may be a milestone on a path to a new relationship between Calaveras County officials and the Calaveras County Council of Governments.

Network to keep lines of communication open in time of disaster

Stockton Record Local News - August 25, 2010 - 8:18pm

SAN ANDREAS - Calaveras and Alpine counties are pioneering a microwave-based communications network for public safety agencies that will speed the work of law officers on their beats and patch the communications gaps that have hindered inter-agency...