Rail Road Flat News

Parents and teachers in this tiny rural hamlet are organizing resistance after learning that award-winning Rail Road Flat Elementary School may close next year.

After asking for road safety improvements and then seeing the speed limit through town increase to 45 mph instead, Mountain Ranch residents will soon get some relief.

Kathy Northington, superintendent of the Mark Twain Union Elementary School District, has chalked in her name as a candidate for county superintendent of schools.

Earlier this week the Calaveras County Health Department closed its eight day H1N1 school vaccination program for the year.

The C.H.P. has identified 79 year old Robert Bernhard of Rail Road Flat as the individual who suffered major injuries Tuesday afternoon in a single vehicle accident north of Angels Camp on Hwy 49 near Deer Creek.

Less than two weeks after the speed limit through Mountain Ranch was raised from 35 to 45 mph, a new traffic survey may put the brakes on what some residents say has become a "speedway." Last week, the Public Works Department performed a followup to the 2008 survey that originally set the higher limits, prompted by renewed protests by residents at ...

A man accused of car theft who was shot and injured during an encounter in May with Calaveras County sheriff's detectives won't gain access to the personnel files of the officers, a judge ruled Friday.

Calaveras County Sheriff's reports MONDAY 3:44 p.m., Rail Road Flat - Someone was drunk in public at Pine and Main streets.

Dale Buller, a millionaire gun collector and buffalo rancher, was sentenced last week to 90 days in jail and five years' probation for being a felon in possession of guns and ammunition.

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.

The Calaveras County Planning Commission Thursday rejected a proposal by millionaire buffalo rancher Dale Buller to divide a small lot he owns near Glencoe into three home lots.

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.

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.

Dale Buller, the millionaire buffalo rancher known for his love of guns and his volatile encounters with law enforcement officers, neighbors and even judges, has been ordered into a treatment program at a state mental hospital.

Millionaire buffalo rancher Dale Buller will return to Calaveras County Superior Court on July 6 for a hearing at which a judge may determine whether to send Buller to a state mental hospital or some other form of psychiatric treatment.

Dale Buller might soon be watching television in a state mental hospital. Buller, seen as recently as last year repairing fences and driving a utility vehicle around his buffalo ranch in Rail Road Flat, was found mentally incompetent to stand trial May 18 on charges of illegal gun dealing, assault-weapon possession and assault.

Comment: "It feels great," said graduate Jesse Main, 18, of Rail Road Flat. "This school helped me out a lot.

Thompson was in an altercation with Calaveras County Sheriff's Deputies and he was shot attempting to flea the scene in a stolen car.

Calaveras County Sheriff Dennis Downum Monday defended a detective who on May 27 shot and wounded car theft suspect Michael Thompson during an encounter in Rail Road Flat.

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