EL DORADO — If ever there was a night to scare or be scared, Monday’s All Hallow’s Eve was it. Host Union Mine experienced both — overcoming upstart El Dorado in the first two sets before finding its groove for the 25-21, 25-19, 25-16 sweep. The Sierra Valley Conference volleyball victory ensured the undefeated Lady Diamondbacks [...]

Ponderosa’s Riley Ruppenthal is DRL champion FOLSOM — Saturday’s Delta River League cross country championship meet was full of side stories. The 2010 defending champion Oak Ridge varsity boys were on a mission after coming in second to Pleasant Grove in an earlier DRL meet. “We lost the first league meet and wanted to come [...]

A DEFINITION OF AGING:
 John Chapman sent us the following T-shirt statement: “I huffed and I puffed and I got up out of my chair.” • • • CRAFT FAIR AND E-WASTE EVENT:
 On Saturday, Nov. 5, an E-waste fundraiser will be held in the staff parking lot of Ponderosa High School, Shingle Springs. Also, on the [...]

Folsom Lake College’s El Dorado Center in Placerville, the El Dorado County Office of Education, and the El Dorado Union High School District are collaborating to produce a career awareness event at the El Dorado Center on Friday, Oct. 21. Close to 300 middle school students — mostly sixth graders — will participate in mock interviews with [...]

SACRAMENTO – Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. Oct. 27 proposed 12 major reforms for state and local pension systems that would end system-wide abuses and reduce taxpayer costs by billions of dollars over the long term. “It’s time to fix our pension systems so that they are fair and sustainable over a long time horizon,” [...]

The Department of Fish and Game asks anglers to use special techniques and extra vigilance to help conserve California’s green and white sturgeon. Both species are caught by anglers in a popular sport fishery centered in the San Francisco Estuary, but anglers need to be aware of special regulations in place to protect the long-term [...]