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The Folsom Historic District Association’s 47th Spring Antique Fair, is Sunday, April 21 on Historic Sutter St. from 8 a.m.to 4 p.m. Thousands of shoppers from Reno to San Francisco will fill the four-block historic district for this popular regional event featuring more than 150 booths with a wide range of antique and collectible merchandise: [...]
Wanting to generate more business from the Internet, a group of local business people met last Thursday for a class on how to better use social media tools. Jointly sponsored by the El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce, El Dorado Hills Chamber of Commerce, Shingle Springs Cameron Park Chamber of Commerce, Coloma Lotus Chamber of [...]
Thousands of El Dorado County homeowners could get relief from the state Fire Prevention Fee if proposed changes to state responsibility area boundaries are approved by Cal Fire and the State Natural Resources Agency. If the new maps are fully signed off by July 1, 2013, the relief would begin in 2014. Proposed changes to [...]
Placerville Arts Association is starting 2013 off spectacularly with guest speaker, D. Oldham Neath. Neath has been building custom frames and preserving artwork in her Sacramento shop, Archival Framing, for more than 30 years. She will be the guest speaker at the PAA meeting on Sunday, Jan. 20, at the El Dorado Senior Center, 935 [...]
Iron Willow Gallery is proud to present Stephany Nickel as this month’s featured artist. Nickel is an award-winning artist as well as a renowned art instructor. She has juried many statewide art competitions. Her work is in private collections throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. The international publication Palette Magazine has published her paintings [...]
Iron Willow Gallery is proud to present Stephany Nickel as this month’s featured artist. Nickel is an award-winning artist as well as a renowned art instructor. She has juried many statewide art competitions. Her work is in private collections throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. The international publication “Palette Magazine” has published her paintings in [...]
March 15, 1920 — Nov. 17, 2012 Virginia Ann Hosford, 92, died peacefully in the presence of loved ones on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, at her home in Placerville, Calif. She was formerly a longtime resident of the Sacramento area. Born on March 15, 1920, in Oakland, Calif., to Samuel and Willabelle Stroud, Virginia embraced [...]
Fifty-five Placer County artists are creating new work and readying their studios for PlacerArts’ 19th annual Autumn Art Studios Tour, set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 9, 10 and 11 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Many artists will open their private studios for the weekend, while others will participate in group shows at [...]
Celebrating KVIE Public Television’s 31 years of creating an accessible venue to bring art into the homes of Northern Californians, the 2012 KVIE Art Auction will showcase more than 300 works of art by emerging, well-known and world-renown Northern California artists. KVIE’s art curator, D Neath, announced that 12 El Dorado County artists, who submitted art [...]
The Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra and Music Director Donald Kendrick are currently holding membership auditions for their 2012-13 concert season. If you are an experienced choral singer with good music reading skills, please call the SCSO at 916-536-9065 or e-mail scso2005@gmail.com. The chorus rehearses September through May on Monday evenings from 7 to 9:30 [...]
KVIE announced today that “Prohibition,” a new three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, will air Oct. 2, 3 and 4, from 8 to 10 p.m. on KVIE Channel 6. Set in the era of bathtub gin, bootleggers, and speakeasies, the series tells the true story of the rise, rule and fall [...]
Antiques enthusiasts from throughout California, Nevada and Oregon look forward to Folsom’s 44th annual Antique Peddlers’ Fair, which will take place on Sunday, Sept. 18, rain or shine. The Historic District of Folsom, built in the 1850s during California’s Gold Rush, continues to enchant travelers and locals alike with its unique charm. “After a year-and-a-half [...]
An Olympic skating champion who doubles as a featured author is coming to Sacramento. Kristi Yamaguchi will be at the 11th annual Scholar Share Children’s Book Festival that will be held at Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive in Sacramento, the weekend of Sept. 24-25. Admission is free. The book festival features numerous activities including dynamic presentations [...]
September is an exciting time to visit wine country in Amador County. The season of summer soon transitions into fall, and the leaves start changing, as days begin to cool and tractors will hit the fields. Starting off the Labor Day weekend by enjoying the fruits visiting wineries that will be offering specials, music, and [...]
What: ScholarShare Children’s Book Festival Where: Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive, Sacramento When: Saturday, Sept. 24 and Sunday, Sept. 25, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost: Free admission Information: 916-808-7462 or fairytaletown.org Another story is set to come alive at Fairytale Town during the 11th annual ScholarShare Children’s Book Festival, a two-day event on Saturday, Sept. 24 [...]
Would you like to sing Sir William Walton’s “Belshazzar’s Feast,” Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms,” great Cathedral classics, along with a spectacular Christmas concert? The Sacramento Choral Society and Music Director Donald Kendrick are currently holding membership auditions for tenors and sopranos only for the 2011-12 concert season. If you are an experienced choral singer with good [...]
SACRAMENTO — On Debating the Delta, debuting on KVIE Public Television (ch. 6) on Wednesday, June 22, from 7 to 8 p.m., as part of the station’s local series ViewFinder, experts will discuss the many challenges facing this critical resource, and offer informative, educational and important viewpoints on the future of the delta. The Sacramento-San [...]
Sept. 6, 1920 – April 3, 2011 Marjorie Kass, 90, passed away peacefully and with such elegance early Sunday morning at Gold Country Retirement Community Center in Placerville, Calif. She was born in New York City, N.Y., on Sept. 6, 1920. Marjorie was preceded in death by her parents, George and Susan Neidhardt, of Glendora, [...]
Local antique collectors and visitors will be joined by antique enthusiasts from Northern and Central California when the Folsom Historic District Association hosts its 45th annual Spring Antique Fair on Sunday, April 17, on Sutter Street. Thousands of shoppers will fill the four-block historic district for this popular regional event featuring free admission and free [...]
Realtor Susanne Wolter with partner Jeff Kaut of RE/MAX Gold has joined with United Way’s Women In Philanthropy Group and renowned artist Gayle Rappaport-Weiland to host a free public event April 16 & 17, turning an upscale property for sale into an art gallery for two days where guests are welcome to view and purchase more [...]