Mokelumne Hill News

Jeanne Boyce, the longtime leader of Calaveras County's Public Health Services Agency, in January will become the county's top administrator.

A 43-year-old Mokelumne Hill man suffered moderate injuries when he was struck from behind by a car and knocked off his motorcycle as he slowed for a road work zone on Highway 49 north of San Andreas on Thursday morning, the California Highway Patrol reported.

A little more than a week remains to nominate Calaveras County's best spots for a National Geographic-sponsored virtual and print map of top Sierra Nevada destinations.

A black-and-white image of the rustic road leading into the village of Calaveritas will grace the cover of the 2009-10 Calaveras County budget.

Power outage numbers in the Mother Lode continue to dwindle as P.G.& E. crews work around the clock to attain full restoration.

CALAVERAS COUNTY Sheriff's reports TUESDAY 4:24 p.m., Valley Springs - Someone was arrested for shoplifting on the 100 block of California Street.

The Hotel Leger is a prime destination for folks who love Gold Rush history. The hotel has operated on the site since 1851, and its prominent position on Main Street in Mokelumne Hill's well-preserved and quiet downtown gives it a stature unavailable to historic hotels that have to compete amid the hubbub of more touristed areas.

According to the CHP report Schwindt's excessive speed in a southbound direction did not allow him to negotiate a curve in the roadway.

A 50-year-old resident of Mokelumne Hill had a confirmed case of the H1N1 virus, the fifth reported such case in Calaveras County, officials said Monday.

The Calaveras County Health Department reported its fifth H1N1 virus victim of the year this afternoon.

Amid the many impassioned appeals addressed to the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, it was a 10-year-old's that stood out.

Firefighters responded early Thursday morning to a structure fire that has destroyed two residences and has injured five individuals.

California Highway Patrol officials released the name of a teen killed Friday night in an alleged drunk driving accident on Highway 49 near Tuttletown.

An unidentified 19-year-old Valley Springs resident was fatally injured in a vehicle accident late Friday evening on Hwy 49 north of Rawhide Rd.

The Factory Outlet Gallery will present Within The Layers, an exhibit of paintings by Tricia Rissmann, beginning Friday and continuing through Sept.

A 13-year-old Mokelumne Hill boy has fallen ill with H1N1 flu, the fourth confirmed case of the virus in Calaveras County.

One Calaveras County elementary school is planning to withdraw from a popular state program that limits classrooms to 20 students per teacher, and others may have to do the same after mid-year budget cuts.

Anna Colavita's birthday party just keeps getting bigger and bigger. It's not about to reach Woodstock proportions any time soon, but it's growing steadily into an annual gathering of - and networking opportunity for - Stockton-area independent musicians and their groups.

The Calaveras County Sheriff's Department arrested Justin Robert Trammell, 20; Daniel Astwood, 18; and Benjamin Eugene Cribb, 21, on suspicion of burglary and other related offenses after a deputy responding to an alarm at 1:40 a.m. Monday at a gas station on Highway 49 in Mokelumne Hill found them in a car leaving the scene.

A suspected car thief who has been sought since a hunt for him resulted in a deputy shooting another car thief suspect in late May was arrested this week near Sheep Ranch.