DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY: The next Twilight Dance will be on Sunday, June 5, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Pollock Pines/Camino Community Center, 2675 Sanders Drive, Pollock Pines, across from the Umpqua Bank. Tickets are $6, including appetizers. Singles are welcome! King Music Services will provide music from the Swing era. For more [...]

EDITOR: Letter writer Mr. Longhofer calls the GOP the self-proclaimed party of jobs and then asks where are the jobs. Good question, wrong party. The Republicans have had the majority in the House, one third of the government, for less than six months. The Democrats had a veto proof majority and controlled everything, the House, [...]

EDITOR: According to Mountain Democrat editorials, “Drill here, drill there, drill everywhere” is the only energy policy that this country ought to follow. Without doubt this course of action is designed solely to benefit the short-term interests of oil companies. Long-term, it would leave this nation even more vulnerable to oil blackmail than we are now. [...]

EDITOR: Recently my wife was called for jury duty at the El Dorado County Courthouse in Placerville and was required to pass though the metal detector. She, being a little naive of these procedures, of course had on jewelry and had coins, clippers and her keys in her pockets. Apparently the two bailiffs who were [...]

EDITOR: Howdy, folks. Pollock Pines is at it again. The Community Economic Development Association of Pollock Pines’ third year in a row to sponsor the community’s “Wagons in the Pines.” Multitudes gather along Pony Express Trail to greet the wagons as they come ambling, bouncing  and joggling along, replicating historic trips of a hundred years ago [...]