Girl power thrived in El Dorado County before the pioneers but Girl Scouts were added to the list of strong women who were making a difference in 1927. A troop of girls in Camino started by Vera Woolridge and Bertha Burrows became the first unofficial troop. A year later an official troop began in Placerville. [...]
Caldor was a small, but very important, town near Grizzly Flat that was built by the California Door Co. Located on Dogtown Creek (also known as Dog Creek), a tributary of the Cosumnes River, it was the center for the lumbering operations of this company and ultimately, the eastern end of a narrow gauge railroad [...]
The Sacramento man whose body was found earlier this month in the Grizzly Flat area was shot and killed by a member of his own hunting party, authorities announced Tuesday. Xiong Neng Vang, of Sacramento, was found on Cosumnes Mine Road in the Grizzly Flat area by search and rescue volunteers on Jan. 18. The [...]
Search and rescue volunteers located the body of a missing hunter Wednesday morning in the Eldorado National Forest, less than 24 hours after he was first reported missing. El Dorado County Sheriff’s Lt. Bryan Golmitz said the hunter, whose identity was not immediately known, was said to be missing in the Grizzly Flat area at [...]
VACAVILLE — The Golden Sierra cross country teams traveled to Lagoon Valley Park in Vacaville for the second Sierra Delta League cross country meet last Wednesday. The varsity girls all finished in the top 10 to take first ahead of Highlands; the varsity boys finished second to the very strong Scots team. Lagoon Valley Park’s [...]
The bodies of the grown man and young child found last week on a Grizzly Flat property have been positively identified as 49-year-old Mourad “Moni” Samaan and his 2-year-old daughter Madeline Samaan-Fay, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department announced. The Fair Oaks man and his child were found dead inside his green Toyota 4Runner in [...]
Authorities continued Monday to investigate the deaths of a Fair Oaks man and his young daughter, nearly 48 hours after their bodies were discovered on a Grizzly Flat property. El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies found Madeline Samaan-Fay, 2, and Mourad “Moni” Samaan, 49, dead inside his green Toyota 4Runner in rural Grizzly Flat Saturday night. [...]
