EL DORADO HILLS — A victory is a victory and the El Dorado boys basketball team will take it — especially prior to the start of the upcoming Sierra Valley Conference season which opens next week. In the third place game Friday night of the Trojan Toss Up at Oak Ridge High, El Dorado beat [...]

MaxPreps Holiday Classic Ponderosa 65, Viewpoint 52 – The Bruins rallied behind a 24-11 fourth quarter Friday to win the championship. Ponderosa won 4-of-5 at the tournament and ended in fine fashion by shooting 60 percent from the field. Curtis Opsahl scored 18 points on 8-of-10 floor and was named MVP, Chris Snyder bucketed 20 [...]

March 3, 1923 – Dec. 27, 2011 Dan was born in San Diego, Calif. After three years the family moved to Santa Rosa, Calif. Upon graduation from high school, Dan joined the Army Air Force. After his service in the South Pacific he returned to Santa Rosa and in January 1946 he married Laura Mae [...]

Feb. 2, 1929 — Dec. 24, 2011 Rose Mary passed away peacefully surrounded by her children on Christmas Eve morning in Cameron Park, Calif. She is now in Paradise. Rose Mary was born in Jena, La., to Herbert and Odell May. She was one of 12 children. She married the love of her life, Dudley [...]

Basketball Boys  MaxPreps Holiday Classic Ponderosa 69, Cathedral City 51 —  The Bruins (7-7) broke away from a 15-15 tie in the first quarter Thursday to advance into Friday’s bracket championship game. Against Cathedral City, Ponderosa took a 17-15 lead to start the second quarter when junior guard Trevor Hammitt hit a basket. The Bruins [...]

EDITOR: Regarding George Alder’s question about fairness and the flat tax: It is hard to figure out what is a fair share, but I do not think that having one person live on $18,000 a year and another live on $90 million a year is fair in most people’s book. On the other hand, I do [...]

“Awesome.” That word is used by kids everyday, all the time. But recently, a group of Placerville fourth grade students used it with more than the usual emphasis, because most of them were seeing Yosemite Valley for the first time. In California public schools, the focus of the fourth grade curriculum is on California. What [...]