EDITOR: El Dorado High School –You have brought in new coaches to the boys’ basketball program, yet they have been acting in the old standard of winning at every stake by only playing the select few they “believe are better” or “earned the right to play.” Well, I believe in the word team and that [...]

EDITOR: Congratulations to Ms. Maria Capraun for seeing her lawsuit through and her well deserved settlement. I and my family experienced three painful and very expensive years due to this same individual and subsequent lawsuit that was brought against him and the fire district for which I was employed for 12 years. My lawsuit was [...]

The Super Quiz for the 2011 Academic Decathlon gets underway at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 5, at the Union Mine High School Theater of the Mine and the public is invited to attend. Teams from El Dorado, Pondersosa, Oak Ridge and Union Mine high schools, who have been preparing for months, will compete in [...]

Parts of medical science are highly developed areas where doctors can precisely nail down specific diseases and even sometimes eradicate them. The more vexing – and perhaps more interesting – pieces of medical science are those in which we still struggle to diagnose, let alone fully treat, major maladies. Mark Vonnegut, M.D., the son of [...]

Here’s a story that illustrates how my face must have looked. After I dropped my daughter and grandson at the airport for their post-holiday flight home, I decided to eat lunch at In-N-Out Burger in Woodland. Although it was 12:15 p.m., the restaurant wasn’t crowded and a young woman motioned me to her cash register [...]

The American River Conservancy staff conducts volunteer coordination and restoration activities in the American and Cosumnes River watersheds. With generous support from Patagonia, ARC will use funding to purchase restoration materials, publicize events and coordinate field activities on local public land. Patagonia’s $3,000 award will help with the many goals of the ARC’s Volunteer Outreach and [...]