Chinese Camp News

One time escaped Sierra Conservation Center inmate George Landecho Lopez has been charged with burglary, arson and possession of stolen property stemming from a July 18, 2008 fire at 6900 O'Byrnes Ferry Rd.

There is a vegetation fire in the Chinese Camp area. It is located in a field off Hwy 108 near the Hwy 49 Montezuma Junction.

As scheduled, Sierra Pacific Industries' Standard Mill will close on July 17, SPI spokesman Mark Pawlicki said.

The Tuolumne County CHP recorded seven driving-under-the-influence arrests over the three day Memorial Day weekend.

Two people were killed in an accident on Hwy 120 near Chinese Camp just after 5:30pm Saturday.

"It's time to give it up." That was Jamestown Elementary School Trustee Cathy Stone-Carlson's advice to counterparts on school boards throughout Tuolumne County.

On the spectrum of political decisions, closing a school is one of the toughest.

With school budget cuts and staff layoffs on the horizon, calls for district unification in Tuolumne County are being renewed.

The Chinese Camp Store and Kiwi Tavern is open for gas, beer and socializing. Amy Alonzo Rozak/Union Democrat, copyright 2009 Chinese Camp's vibrant past is dimming into a grim and weed-shrouded future.

Teenagers on probation displayed their photographic talents Friday night at the Tuolumne County Library in Sonora.

The Standard Mill's buzz is one of the last echoes of an aging era - an era of grime filled faces, callused hands and hard hats.

The Sierra Pacific Industries sawmill, the heart of Tuolumne County's timber industry for nearly a century, will shut down in July, putting 146 people out of work.

To the locals in Chinese Camp it's known as the Rock House, but the Rock House stands no longer.

The United States Postal Service is offering up to a $10,000 reward for information regarding a burglary at the Chinese Camp Post Office.

Ask around at Sonora Elementary School and they will tell you, retired teacher Mike Pardina is irreplaceable.

Chinese Camp's school board Wednesday night approved moving forward with filing a state waiver stating the district can't afford to operate another year independently.

Allen Royce has dreamed of rebuilding the Red Hills movie set since a fire destroyed it more than a decade ago.

The series of strong winter storms that have battered the foothills since Friday will continue at least though Wednesday, but snow levels are expected to stay above 2,500 feet, according to forecasters.

A case can be made that the real victims of the nation's economic crisis are not the jobless, the foreclosed upon or the bankrupt.

Margaret Fay Macdonald entered this world more than two months premature in a corner of southwest Utah known as Hamlin Valley on July 12, 1922.