Big Oak Flat News

BAMBINAPPER Jack Fray, 11, reenacts his April crime as Dan Johnson of the Radiator Doctor gives mock chase.

By now many holiday festivities are over and the clean-up process is well underway.

TUOLUMNE COUNTY Sonora police reports FRIDAY 3:01 p.m., fraud - A woman attempted to pick up a prescription medication that was not hers on the 1100 block of Sanguinetti Road.

A week before Christmas, the children of Groveland received a much-anticipated present.

A clean slate, a fresh start and a new beginning. All were promised in the successful spring campaign to recall the entire board of the Big Oak Flat-Groveland School District.

Legal issues continue to plague the Big Oak Flat-Groveland School District, including a lawsuit by a dismissed teacher charging defamation, and another suit filed by the district itself against its absent superintendent.

The acting superintendent of the Big Oak Flat-Groveland School District called the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office Tuesday afternoon to report an angry school board trustee in his office acting in a threatening manner.

Columbia College campus nurse Laureen Campana offers traditional as well as herbal remedies for students who come to her for help.

Yesterday was another beautiful day...76 degrees, sunny with a gentle breeze. Mary and I drove the 18 miles west to the Groveland/Big Oak Flat area just to look around these two old towns.

TUOLUMNE COUNTY Sheriff's reports THURSDAY 4 a.m., Sonora area - Three men were arrested on Mount Brow Road at Jamestown Road after a deputy searched them and discovered an expandable baton in one's possession, a scanner in another's, and a bag of methamphetamine and a methamphetamine pipe on the ground.

Wally Anker owns the Priest Station at the top of Old Priest Grade, which was established in 1849.

The Big Meadow Fire in Yosemite destroyed 7,425 acres. Areas along the side of the road still contain hot spots.

The roads leading from Yosemite National Park's Big Oak Flat gateway to Yosemite Valley will reopen today, park officials said.

At 8:00am on Sunday, September 6, 2009, the road from Big Oak Flat entrance station to Crane Flat and across Tioga Pass will re-open, making through travel possible between Groveland and Lee Vining.

Yosemite Park Officials say nearby fires won't prevent them from keeping the national park open over the Labor Day weekend.

TNT commander Craig Davis winds through marijuana plants in a green house next to the Big Oak Flat home where 200 plants were found.

Now seven days old the Big Meadow Fire has grown to 5,257 acres, an increase of 348 acres from Monday's total of 4,909. Containment remains at 55 percent.

The smoke in the Truckee Meadows and Lake Tahoe area is from the Big Meadow fire in the Yosemite National Forest area, but should be gone by Saturday morning.

Coming soon to Groveland: Hot dogs in the park and a park to let dogs play. The Groveland Community Services District Board of Directors gave unanimous approval Monday for both a dog park to be constructed on district land and for a hot dog vendor to operate at Mary Laveroni Community Park.

The Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee for the Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified School District voted at its Monday night meeting to ask the BOFG governing board for an in-depth audit, and plans to do its own informal audit of the district's bond projects.