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SAN ANDREAS - The California Highway Patrol office in San Andreas will offer a free Start Smart teen driver class several times over the next few weeks. Space is limited, and at least one parent is required to attend with each teenager.

SAN ANDREAS - The California Fish and Game Commission last week voted unanimously to add two species of mountain yellow-legged frogs to the state's list of threatened or endangered species.

VALLEY SPRINGS — The Northern California division of the United States Tennis Association is honoring Valley Springs resident Michael Clark for his work creating tennis programs for young people.

SAN ANDREAS — Calaveras County public-health officials are advising residents with schoolchildren to be alert for signs of gastrointestinal illness.

SAN ANDREAS — A 22-year-old woman authorities alleged was driving drunk rolled her 2008 Jeep Commander while trying to evade police, according to the California Highway Patrol. Kathleen Murphy of Lodi was on Highway 26 west of Yeaton Lane at about...

SAN ANDREAS — The sound of a car backfiring briefly triggered a lockdown of the classrooms at San Andreas Elementary School on Wednesday afternoon.

SAN ANDREAS - Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, has joined with two other Democratic representatives to introduce a bill requiring large corporations to reveal how many of their employees work overseas.

SAN ANDREAS - The jury selection process began Thursday in the murder trial of James Allison Livezey.

Mindful Parenting, a free six-week workshop on techniques to have a more relaxed and compassionate relationship with children, will begin March 6 at the Center for Creativity and Community in San Andreas.

SAN ANDREAS - Economically depressed Amador and Calaveras counties are about to receive millions of dollars in forest-restoration funding from the federal government.

ANGELS CAMP - A century ago, Angels Camp residents did something radical: They voted to form a city government.

MODESTO - Golf may legally continue for nearly a month at the Trinitas golf course near Burson, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge ruled Wednesday.

SAN ANDREAS - Six months ago, during the summer lightning storm season, Calveras County sheriff's deputies started having trouble radioing back to the dispatch center in San Andreas.

Zucca Wines will be offering an educational opportunity on wine pairings from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Feb. 9 at the Murphys Historic Hotel, 457 Main St., Murphys.

Hospice of Amador and Calaveras is offering training for volunteers willing to help comfort terminally ill patients and their families.

Registration must be made at least five days in advance for a one-day course in hunter safety scheduled from 7:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Sunday in the Senior Center on Mountain Ranch Road, San Andreas.

COPPEROPOLIS - In April, Charity L. Maness received a battered shoebox of 44-year-old love letters that changed the direction of her writing career.

WEST POINT - If the Mayan apocalypse - or even just a bad power outage - happens in 2012, West Point is the place to be.

ANGELS CAMP - Criminal justice officials in Calaveras County remain bitterly divided over how to spend about $450,000 a year in state realignment funding even as the Community Corrections Partnership approved a plan for the money.

A little more than a week after prospective candidates began to pick up paperwork for an electoral bid, each Calaveras County race in the June 5 primary appears to be contested.