Angels Camp News

Adam Rios competes in the Sac-Joaquin Sub-Section Championships in Angels Camp. Photo submitted by Thomas LaBounty.

California Department of Transportation engineers are preparing to design a straighter, smoother highway between Copperopolis and Angels Camp that would replace a section of Highway 4 that winds along the contours of a historic wagon road.

The C.H.P. has identified 79 year old Robert Bernhard of Rail Road Flat as the individual who suffered major injuries Tuesday afternoon in a single vehicle accident north of Angels Camp on Hwy 49 near Deer Creek.

The driver of a vehicle who went off Hwy 49 Tuesday afternoon and overturned north of Angels Camp has been airlifted to a hospital in Modesto with major injuries.

The Sonora Youth Center was built in the 1940s, part of a community effort supported by the National Youth Administration.

Efforts to alter a plan that would remove a 60-year-old redwood and three dozen oaks at the Altaville Cal Fire station continue, even as the state agency renews warnings that changes will be costly and delay construction.

A thief swiped a bronze frog statue from a woman's home in Angels Camp while she was out of town, a local Web site reported.

Following is a list of events planned in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties on and around Veterans Day, which is observed on Wednesday.

At 10:30 officers responded to the 300 block of N. Baker Street. The officers made contact with Roraback who was at home with her four children.

Rick Downey is the apparent winner of the Angels Camp City Council race, with preliminary tallies showing him leading with 504 votes.

Rick Downey is the official winner of the Angels Camp City Council election, with 47 percent of the vote, the Calaveras County Elections Department confirmed Thursday.

As if Angels Camp's Tuesday election and City Council meeting were not enough action for one day, the city also will hold a workshop on what could be called a $3.1 million government string.

Tuolumne County supervisors voted Tuesday to borrow $4.2 million internally to buy property in Sonora for a $253 million law and justice center.

An application earlier this year to drill a well on the Lightner Mine property above Utica Park in Angels Camp has put well policy on the City Council's agenda Tuesday.

Do you have a favorite cookbook? Does looking through it bring back many memories of meals you've had or recipes mom used to cook? On a recent trip to Washington to help my mom after a medical procedure, I was gifted "the book." My mom came up to me as I arrived and told me that she was letting me have "the book." I stood there in disbelief.

The Calaveras County Elections Office has announced the polling locations for Tuesday's Special Consolidated District Election.

The 2009 Land O'Lakes Angler of the Year title for the National Guard Western Division of the Walmart FLW Series came down to a battle between two seasoned veterans at the fourth and final qualifier of the season on Clear Lake last week.

Slickrock and scenery is all over the Bear Valley area. Jeff Glass The Bear Valley region, off Highway 4 in the Sierra Nevada, is an off-the-beaten-path mountain biking "Disneyland." Situated at roughly 7,000' elevation, and 45 miles east of Angels Camp, all an adventurous mountain biker has to do is park in the main village, possibly pick up a ...

Late Monday the CHP identified the three people involved in the 9:20am three vehicle accident that, for a short time, completely closed Hwy 49 north of Angels Camp at Deer Creek.

The Angels Camp Police Department made a number of drug related arrests over the weekend.