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People who use the El Dorado Trail no longer have to wonder where to walk or ride. Kevin Ralphs, a member of Boy Scout troop 859 in Diamond Springs, spent many hours stenciling the county-maintained paved portions of the El Dorado Trail recently. He felt placing proper markers on the trail would be a perfect Eagle [...]
“He made me do it,” the voice of Richard Kenneth Petroski said over a speaker from taped audio on the first day of his murder trial on Tuesday. “He was pushing my buttons.” Petroski, known as Ricky, wiped tears away as he listened to the audio, taken at Marshall Hospital by El Dorado County Sheriff’s [...]
The Rubicon Trail was in the news throughout 2012. Much of the news was good, including the Jeeper’s Jamboree celebrating its 60th run, and the county supervisors paving the way for work on the trail, but the trail was also struck by tragedy in 2012. Rachel Anne Gray, a 21-year-old from El Dorado Hills, was [...]
The full Pisces moon brings a touch of magic to the sky. This is an ethereal lunar aspect filled with faith. It asks, “What do you believe in that you can’t see?” This moon also wants to bring people together, amping up the empathetic vibes and helping us understand how we are more alike than [...]
The Gemini moon has people talking. Whether they are saying much is a different matter. The important part is that they are sharing. With each exchange, we get the sense that we’re not alone and that what we do has an effect on others. So, mindfulness can be the result of seemingly mindless chatter. ARIES [...]
Expert screenwriters and directors know that no image in the script is accidental. You don’t show rainclouds unless a storm is going to happen, and you don’t show the ring unless someone is going to propose. Now that Venus is direct, it’s easier to notice the symbols and use them to predict what will happen, [...]
The moon floating between Aquarius and Pisces finds different ways to provide help and hope. If you can’t make a situation better through technology or intellectual means, move to the spiritual realm. Your belief in someone may be as intangible as your prayers, and yet both undeniably will make a difference. ARIES (March 21-April 19). [...]
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY BY HOLIDAY MATHIS FOR RELEASE: SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2012 Have you ever chatted with a robot? Do you feel a passion for your laptop that verges on romantic fervor? Do you, in short, love gear? To put it in the form of an analogy question: Waxing poetic is to the Pisces moon [...]
The adventurous spirit of the Sagittarius moon rules the better part of the day, featuring expansive thought and action. Also, it’s the last day of Pluto’s direct motion until mid-September. Tomorrow, the dwarf planet, a.k.a. Captain Underworld, goes retrograde to help us review and assess what it means to be human on our own medium-sized [...]
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY BY HOLIDAY MATHIS FOR RELEASE: SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2012 As if the Mercury retrograde wasn’t enough, Uranus adds a “Can I get a what-what?” to the mix as he commits to his annual alignment with the sun. There’s a layer of glossy tension reaching around the cosmic scene like a bubble. It’s [...]
Editor’s note: After El Dorado Hills’ Richard Hunter was diagnosed with retinitus pigmentosa, an eye disease that leads to complete loss of sight, he became a runner. He’s been training hard since competing in the Boston Marathon in 2008 and is breaking down barriers for visually impaired athletes through the C Different Foundation. Hunter worked [...]
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) Let’s put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been much worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, the Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped out 75 percent of all the species on the planet. Can we honestly say that we had [...]