Pilot Hill News

The recent loss of three young lives in an accident on Salmon Falls Road reminds us of a risks teenage drivers face when they get behind the wheel.

The allure of the country along Salmon Falls Road is obvious with its green hills, moss-covered oaks and clear-running stream.

An automobile part with tribute messages scrawled on it rests against a tree along narrow, winding Salmon Falls Road where a fatal car crash occurred.

Officers cannot say whether or not racing preceded a car accident that killed three Sunday.

A witness to the immediate aftermath of a fatal car accident this weekend said young men turned her away when she approached the scene.

Resident Larry Moneypenny said a turbo charger was left at the site of fatal car accident off Salmon Falls Road in Pilot Hill.

A driver may face vehicular manslaughter charges after a weekend crash on a rural El Dorado County road left two teenagers and a man dead, police said.

Three people are dead after a car crashed in El Dorado County overnight. Authorities were called to Salmon Falls Road and Pond View Drive in Pilot Hill at about 1 a.m. Of four people in the car, two were pronounced dead at the scene and a third person died later.

An injured rider whose horse fell was rescued last week by a California Highway Patrol helicopter and other emergency crews from a remote area along the south fork of the American River in El Dorado County.

"Picket Pin of the High sierra" is a 148-page book for children written by Carol Timmerman.

A planned store theft gone wrong and an outburst taken too far were among three separate crimes about juveniles surfacing in local police reports this week.

Auburn sidewalk treasure missing; Christian Valley fiddler goes high-tech; Karaoke king Chadd Perry warbles to win; Vultures descend on Placer High Golden Sierra High School students from the early Reagan era may remember her as "the reluctant cheerleader," newly published author Shana Mahaffey recalls with a laugh.

Let's recall the lasting significance of the California Gold Rush and how it shaped our state and our nation.

PILOT HILL , CA - Despite advances in technology, firefighters say the best way to get an early jump on a wildfire is with a set of human eyes in a lookout tower.

PILOT HILL , CA - Despite advances in technology, firefighters say the best way to get an early jump on a wildfire is with a set of human eyes in a lookout tower.

The Historic Bailey House in Pilot Hill remains fenced off to the public, with boarded windows and doors.

Authors, artists and a local winery will join forces to raise funds Sunday for the El Dorado County-based American Mustang Foundation.