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JASON R. YOUNG, 19, of Cameron Park, booked by CHP on March 29, bail listed as $2,500. MARK A. TRAHAN, 30, of Georgetown, booked by EDSO on March 31, bail listed as $15,000. PETER S. RAY, 23, of Orangevale, booked by CHP on April 1, bail listed as $5,500. GAYLYN R. BURKE, 25, of Pollock [...]
Baseball Union Mine 1, Galt 0 — John Creason and Charles Simpson combined on the eight-inning shutout as the host Diamondbacks picked up Tuesday’s Sierra Valley Conference win. Each allowed a single hit in four innings of work while Creason struck out five. Carlos Romero’s RBI double plated Colton Merrill for the lone run. Sean [...]
EL DORADO — Mixed weather did not stop an afternoon of baseball at Union Mine Monday but the combined efforts of Liberty Ranch pitchers Jared Norris and Brian Szyper did put the kibosh to the D’back offense in the Hawks’ 9-1 Sierra Valley Conference victory. Norris and Spyzer split the mound duties — Norris came [...]
Baseball El Dorado 13, North Monterey County 2 — The Cougars scored 13 runs on 13 hits Monday to win their opener of a four-game swing through the Monterey area. Owen MacKendrick pitched six innings for the win with Zachary Terry throwing the seventh. Offensively, Matt Smith had three hits and Nick Bonniksen, Michael Weston [...]
In 1995 Timothy Lyons and a crew were filming a documentary in the state of Para, a remote section of the Amazon in Northern Brazil. Young Lyons was helping his father-in-law produce a documentary about the Zoe, a recently discovered tribe. That’s when he stumbled upon a Zoe girl who, unknowingly, would change his life. [...]
May 11, 1934 — Oct. 11, 2012 Patricia (Pat) JoAnn Herzig, born on May 11, 1934, to Raymond and Mary Charnock in Richmond, Calif., entered into rest on Oct. 11, 2012, at her home, surrounded by family. She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert G. Herzig. Al and Pat were married in 1951 [...]
EDITOR: I must answer my friend Greg Post’s response to my letter answering the question “Are we better off than four years ago?” In my original Letter to the Editor, I shared the evidence that demonstrated how my family was definitely better off. Greg responded with a lengthy letter addressing national issues. If you look to [...]
Dec. 14, 1975 — Aug. 15, 2012 Christopher “Jason” Merrill, 36, of Sacramento, Calif., passed away too soon on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, at UCSF Medical Center. He was born in Placerville, Calif., on Dec. 14, 1975, the son of June and Gordon Merrill. Jason graduated from Amador High School in 1994. He played football and [...]
In the article “Kristi Merrill — a troubled young woman disappears,” published Aug. 18, the friend of Merrill, a soldier nicknamed “Vash,” sustained fatal injuries in Afghanistan before being shipped to Texas, where he ultimately succumbed to his wounds.
Editor’s note — This is part 2 of a two-part story about the disappearance and recovery of Kristi Merrill, a Union Mine graduate. Part 1 ran in the Aug. 15 issue. On the night of March 23 25-year-old Kristi Merrill left the Carmichael home she shared with her mother, Bryn Barton, saying she would be [...]
Editor’s note — This is part 1 of a two-part story about the disappearance and recovery of Kristi Merrill, a Union Mine graduate. The story of Kristi Merrill, her disappearance from Carmichael and rescue from a sex trafficking ring in Sacramento, starts as many stories of the seedy underbelly of society do: with death and [...]
EDITOR: Today, I woke up to the best headline I have read in a while: “Merrill rescued.” I would like to extend my warmest of thanks to our local newspaper for covering this story. Previously, the story on Linnea Lomax, the girl who attended El Dorado High School and has recently gone missing, graced the [...]
Kristi Deann Merrill, who disappeared from Carmichael on March 23, has safely been recovered from a human trafficking ring. Merrill’s mother, Bryn Barton, confirmed that her daughter had been the victim of a sex trafficking ring and was safely extracted in the early hours of Monday, July 30 with the help of Run 2 Rescue, [...]
With the investigation of Linnea Lomax being handed to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office, one woman seeks to find her own missing daughter with ties to the county. Kristi Deann Merrill, 25, was last seen in Carmichael on March 23, leaving her mother’s house and saying she would be back by 11 p.m. She [...]
Kristian Thomas Aahl, Chelsea Nicole Abelia, Carly Jean Abney, Ethan David Ackerman, Ryan Cass Adair, Alexander George Adams, Haley Robin Adams, Samia Anne Alaywan, Hailey Alexis Albert, Kathryn Danielle Allen, Amy Alvarez, Brigette Elizabeth Amidon, Maya Chunping Andrus, Roman Merrill Andrus, Dominac Vincent Angelucci, Madison Katlyn Arenchild, Alyssa St. Claire Armstrong, Holli Alexandria Arrieta, Khadija Baharah Atebar, [...]
COLOMA — Students from five West Slope El Dorado County high schools had to come up with solutions at the 28th annual Math Steeplechase. Union Mine High School juniors Meridith McSorley, Connor Reed, Jordan Hyatt-Miller, Ryan Plexico and Alec Vaughn sat at a picnic table at Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park on Highway 49 [...]
EDITOR: Let me see if I understand Merrill Matthews’s opinion piece correctly: 1. “Obama Care” (I like this phrase because he does) calls for less time for patient protection, right? Lipitor equals $400 for a 30-day supply compared to generic equaling $36 for a 30-day supply. And this is bad? After all, drug companies will [...]
On many occasions, President Barack Obama has said, “The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation.” I agree. But in the president 2012 budget and elsewhere, he is undermining the very innovation he claims he wants to encourage. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the president’s health care legislation, included a [...]