Groveland News

With a sour economy, it's becoming more difficult to afford a trip to the movies.

Investigators in Modesto chipped away at murder suspect Russell Jones as a backhoe operator scraped hardened earth in the foothills, according to testimony Wednesday in Stanislaus County Superior Court, and it all came together on Halloween in 2007.

The second day of a preliminary hearing in a murder case in the death of Dena Raley-McCluskey, who was missing for eight years before her body was unearthed from a shallow grave near Groveland, included a lengthy cross-examination of a police sergeant who closed the cold case.

Tuolumne County Sheriff Jim Mele has scheduled a Town Hall Meeting for the Groveland community Wednesday, June 24 at 6:30pm at the Community Hall.

The Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified School District carefully examined its budget for the upcoming school year at a special workshop Wednesday night and earmarked several areas for investigation into possible cost savings.

HBR a ' Las Tortugas '08 :: By Josh Miller After seven years of relentless touring, and two highly acclaimed studio albums, San Francisco's Hot Buttered Rum will release Limbs Akimbo , their third studio album, on September 8, 2009.

Groveland Community Services District is one of three utilities in the nation, along with the cities of San Francisco and New York, that doesn't have to filter debris from its water.

It's deja vu at the Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified School District, which may have elected a new board but is still experiencing the pre-recall election drama.

Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified School District's newly elected governing board voted Thursday to send a letter of apology to former district math teacher Ryan Dutton, whose dismissal last fall sparked the campaign to recall the entire prior board.

Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified School District has officially completed two multi-million dollar gymnasium multi-purpose buildings and another bond-funded project is coming in the future.

Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified School District voters made history this week in recalling every single member of their school board.

Though critical state budget issues were on the line in California's special election on Tuesday, only about 23 percent of registered voters statewide went to the polls to have their say.

Around 50 county government positions will likely be cut when the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors votes on the fiscal year 2009/10 Budget on June 9th.

While it was very close to a clean sweep with almost every county rejecting every ballot measure to increase taxes rather than reduce spending; three counties, Santa Clara, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz, did approve proposition 1B by a narrow margin.

Voters in a small rural school district near Yosemite National Park voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to oust all five board members, according to unofficial returns, the first time in memory that an entire school board has been unseated.

Residents of a rural community near Yosemite National Park have overwhelmingly voted to unseat all five members of its school board.

Groveland, CA -- CAL Fire's new director Del Walters admitted that as tragic as Eva Marie Schicke's death was almost four years ago, CAL Fire has learned some extremely valuable lessons.

A four mile segment of Hwy 120 has been renamed the 'Eva Marie Schicke Memorial Highway.' A sign has been placed in memory of Schicke, who was killed fighting a fire in the steep Tuolumne River Canyon on September 12, 2004.

The countdown for the statewide May 19 special election now stands at but 13 days.

The Groveland Community Services District board voted not to inhibit Tuolumne County's construction of a youth center on district property - rather than the proposed alternative of writing a letter to the Board of Supervisors requesting the project be transferred to district management.