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What: Hangtown Christmas Parade — A McIntire Family Tradition Who: City of Placerville Where: Broadway and Main Street in Placerville When: Sunday, Dec. 2 at 1 p.m. Information: 530-626-3849 or 530-642-5232 The McIntire family doesn’t have to contact Santa anymore. Santa calls them — wanting to make sure that he and his elves put the Hangtown Christmas [...]
A Roseville motorist was killed Wednesday night in a head-on collision. Brian Hale, 38, of Roseville, was driving his Geo Prism southbound on Mount Aukum Road, south of Paradise Ranch Road, at 6:25 p.m. Wednesday. According to Placerville area California Highway Patrol officer Dan Stark, preliminary reports suggest Hale was driving without his headlights and crossed [...]
Morris Greenberg wants a jury to believe that 26-year-old Anthony Dumont had a gun in his hand when Greenberg, 40, shot him to death July 20, 2008. But under relentless cross-examination by El Dorado County deputy district attorney Vicki Ashworth Wednesday, it became apparent that no gun in possession of the slain Dumont was found [...]
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 [...]
Duplicate greeting cards, but varied life herald Bob Miller’s 100th birthday By the time Robert Miller of Placerville celebrated his 100th birthday recently, he had received many cards, filling up several shelves. There were at least five that were identical, expressing best wishes on reaching the century mark. The greetings were sent with good wishes to [...]
Editor’s note: Somerset section hiker Norm Stoldt, trail name “Stormin’ Norman,” was hoping the “Triple Crown” — hiking the Appalachan, Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails — was within reach.. He planned and prepared to finish a portion of the Continental Divide Trail the summer of 2010. “The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp [...]
Editor’s note: Somerset’s Norm Stoldt was 63 when he wrote this installment of his section-hiking adventures. He is now 69 years old. This is part 2 of Stoldt‘s second season attacking sections of the Pacific Crest Trail. Here he takes us from Donner Pass to Ashland, Ore. The adventure Snow in the high Sierras just [...]