Mokelumne Hill News

A $183,000-combination of revenue decline from sales tax and state funding elimination for transit operations has prompted the Amador County Transportation Commission board of directors to cut service on three Amador Regional Transit Service routes and absorb another route's service effective Aug.

The ballot is almost set for a late-summer vote in Calaveras County. Twenty-six utility and service "special district" boards around the county have seats up for grabs in this election cycle.

Many Calaveras Transit runs will be eliminated as a result of a 40 percent budget shortfall faced by the public transportation agency.

It was fragments from another Calaveras County sheriff's detective's ricocheting bullet that struck the shoulder of a fellow detective during the arrest of a car-theft suspect, investigators said Thursday.

A Calaveras County sheriff's deputy was shot Thursday following a traffic pursuit in the Rail Road Flat area.

The suspect who was taken to Modesto Memorial Hospital after being shot multiple times by a Calaveras County Sheriff's Detective has been identified as 29-year-old Michael D. Thompson of Mokelumne Hill.

Seats on 26 utility and service district boards around Calaveras County - ranging from the Murphys Sanitary District to the Three Cent Flat Community Services District - will be decided by a mail-in election Aug.

Mokelumne Hill's Jessica Dominick reigned supreme in Saturday's Junior Frog Jump competition at the Altaville Melones Fire District Station in Angels Camp.

Two Mokelumne Hill motorists found themselves barreling down a hill in a 1993 Honda Accord May 2 - leading to injuries for one when the ride was finally over.

A grand theft attempt was thwarted by the thief himself April 21, according to the California Highway Patrol.

There were 86 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday.

Mokelumne Hill, CA -- An ambulance is responding to a two vehicle accident on Hwy 26 just west of Mokelumne Hill.

A huge Copperopolis community plan and spelling out Calaveras County's part to reduce global warming are among unresolved issues holding up completion of the already overdue county General Plan update.

Old dogs are learning new tricks and getting a new leash, ahem, lease on life at Twin Cedar Ranch.

According to the CHP report 58 year old Dean Link of Mokelumne Hill was arrested for driving-under-the-influence following a single vehicle accident Monday afternoon at 1:25. Link was eastbound on Hwy 26 east of Rich Gulch Rd.

An Experience Calaveras raffle package valued at more than $850 will be given away by the Friends of the Calaveras County Library to support the Calaveras County Library System and the Calaveras Adult Tutoring Program.

A fully involved mobile home fire displaced two residents Thursday evening. The fire was first reported at 10:08 in Space 3 of the San Andreas Mobile Home Park at 607 Mountain Ranch Rd.

After being eliminated by budget woes last year, Calaveras County's Methamphetamine Enforcement Team will be revived for at least the next four months, thanks to a $164,618 state grant.

Rescuers have located a group of four Monday morning who had been missing since Friday in Calaveras County.

Snow touched down on Sutter Creek and other down-country areas early Friday morning.