Jamestown News

TUOLUMNE COUNTY Sheriff's reports THURSDAY 12:52 p.m., Phoenix Lake area - A woman reported $250 worth of coins missing from a relative's house on the 21100 block of Phoenix Lake Road.

Hear the jingle in your pocket from the money you'll save when you travel by BART to the Great Dickens Christmas Fair at the Cow Palace in San Francisco.

Jamestown Elementary School eighth-grader Zane Hedgpeth and Michele Parsons, a sixth-grader at Jamestown, talk with Columbia College biology professor Micha Miller about various insects that were on display.

TUOLUMNE COUNTY Sheriff's reports FRIDAY 9:48 a.m., Jamestown area - A woman on the 19000 block of Jamestown Road said she has been getting citations from Paramount Police Department in Los Angeles County for a license plate registered to her with the wrong vehicle and expiration date.

The Tuolumne County District Attorney's Office has charged a Valley Springs man with manslaughter in connection with the Sept.

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

Vern Gossage, of Sonora, a volunteer at ATCAAa s Food Bank, sets some pie filling and other holiday needs into a nearly empty food bin.

Two prisoners who escaped from the Sierra Conservation Center's Mount Bullion Conservation Camp in Mariposa have been apprehended.

The 68 member strong Community Service Unit continues to thrive and serve the Tuolumne County community as an outreach of the Sheriff's Office.

Two people suffered major injuries in an auto collision this morning on Highway 108, just east of Stockton Road, the California Highway Patrol reported.

Last year Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties received a joint grant of nearly $400,000 to help manage household hazardous waste.

Hwy 108 between Washington St. and Stockton Rd. will remain closed for at least another hour due to a head-on accident earlier this morning.

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

The California Fair Political Practices Commission has not closed its investigation into upcoming travel plans by Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Teri Murrison, the head of the watchdog agency said Monday.

Tuolumne County's "movie star" locomotive, the historic Sierra No. 3, is back in Jamestown and a step closer to returning to rail service.

Broadcaster Tavis Smiley leads a group of students through the America I Am: The African American Imprint exhibition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, CA.

The famous movie locomotive Sierra No. 3 this morning leaves the Sacramento railyards, where it has been undergoing rehabilitation, and heads for home in Jamestown, Tuolumne County.

Law enforcement officials in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties have Halloween advice for both kids and adults: Don't eat unsealed candy from strangers and don't drink and drive.

TUOLUMNE COUNTY Sonora police reports FRIDAY 9:24 a.m., theft - A woman said her two cats and miscellaneous items were stolen from her home on North Stewart Street.

A discarded rag used for deck staining was the cause of a structure fire Sunday evening that caused $10,000 damage to a garage and $2,000 to its contents.