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It’s been three years since Oak Ridge High School graduate Jackie Greene brought his unflappable cool to El Dorado County. The uber-talented singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, bluesman and hipster anchors the Coloma Blues Live! lineup on Saturday, June 9 at Henningsen-Lotus Park. Greene and his band play at 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $50 at the door [...]
Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove, is seeking his third two-year term as U.S. Representative in California’s 4th Congressional District. His low-key campaign emphasizes the anti-regulation, anti-tax, pro-business and pro-competition themes that have been the hallmark of a career in California politics that dates back to 1979. El Dorado and Placer counties make up 70 percent of [...]
Placerville area California Highway Patrol officer Dan Stark is going back to school. Over the past several months, Stark has reached out to local high schools in an attempt to better warn teens of the perils of drunk or otherwise unsafe driving. “We’re working together because of the tragedies we had at the end of [...]
Ray Nutting is the 2011 chairman of the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors. He spends 80 to 90 percent of his work week on county business. Mountain Democrat photographer Pat Dollins remarked on the way back from a visit to Nutting’s South County ranch, “That guy needs about a 72 hour day — and [...]
Crash victims Kathi Sturgeon and Kathy Hurd “PARTYed” with Vista High School sophomores Friday. But this party at Folsom’s Mercy Hospital didn’t include balloons and music; it replaced the fun with drama and serious life lessons. The Bodacious Biking Babe cyclists of El Dorado Hills took the Folsom students through the “Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related [...]
Maria Bonser, 48, is a soft spoken woman. She came to Pollock Pines by way of St. Petersburg, Russia. The story of her journey to El Dorado County starts back in 1997. Bonser is a trained teacher with a PhD in global education. She was in the United States to be a speaker at the [...]