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CREATURE ADVICE: John Chapman provided the following T-shirt “Advice from a Spider” statement: “Make good connections. Be Web savvy. Patience pays off. Let go of your hang-ups. Show your artistic side. Dew your best. Don’t get strung out!” “LET’S TALK” MEETING: “Let’s Talk” is a topical, senior discussion group led by Terry Provenza. It will [...]
Sept. 27, 1921 — March 25, 2013 Mary Jane (Grimes) Slaton entered into her eternal home on Monday, March 25, 2013, to join our Heavenly Father and her beloved Herman, who preceded her in death in 2006. She was also preceded in death by her sisters, Jeniebel White and Sarah Edmonson; and brothers, Jim, Bill and [...]
MORNING COMES TOO EARLY: John Chapman provided the following T-shirt statement: “I could be a MORNING PERSON, if morning happened Around Noon.” John and I agree with this statement. Don’t call us before 9:30 a.m. HELP FROM THE DA’s OFFICE: On March 8, from 5 to 7 p.m., District Attorney Vern Pierson and members from [...]
The Opening Ceremony for the 2013 Season for Non-Violence and the Martin Luther King Day Peace Vigil and March will be held on Monday, Jan. 21 at Town Hall in Placerville. At 6 p.m. will be a one-hour program to celebrate this year’s Season for Non-Violence in El Dorado County. Featured speakers include Pastor Frank [...]
I’ve alway considered Death Valley one of the most beautiful of California’s deserts. When I lived in San Francisco three of us drove a van down for a several-day tour of it. Then I got a knowledgeable backgrounder on it when the Nevada Tourism Department invited me along on a journalists’ familiarization tour of southwestern Nevada [...]
June 16, 1934 — Dec. 17, 2012 Ruth June Sherrard passed away in her Placerville home on Dec. 17, 2012, after a short illness. Her family was with her at the time of her death. She was born in Sonora, Calif., on June 16, 1934, to Liselotte and Herman Sherrard. Her father became the Agricultural Commissioner [...]
EDITOR: Marshall Hospital is to be congratulated on its new trauma center and emergency room. Just what the community needs! However, it makes no sense to reduce ambulance service at the very time that Marshall Hospital services improve. The half-day ambulance at Station 25 by the Post Office in downtown Placerville is scheduled to be [...]
Development of a large shopping mall south of Diamond Springs edged a bit closer to becoming a reality this week. On the drawing boards for five years already, the Diamond-Dorado Retail Center project gained ground Tuesday when El Dorado County Supervisors unanimously approved a nine-point recommendation from the county’s Planning Commission.
The action involved an official board resolution amending the county’s General Plan Land Use Element and creation of a new zoning ordinance reflecting that amendment. Four parcels that make up just over 27 acres were rezoned from Industrial use (I) to General Commercial-Planned Development use (GC-PD).
Most of the early history of the El Dorado Hills area occurred on and along two of the earliest major immigration and trade routes in early California, Green Valley Road to the north and to the south what is now generally Highway 50, but was historically known by many names including the Carson-Immigrant Trail, the [...]
Aug. 12 5:22 p.m. Unknown suspect(s) entered an apartment on Valley View Parkway in El Dorado Hills at an unknown time and date and stole two laptop computers and a Wii video system. There was no sign of forced entry. 9:57 p.m. A male subject, Kyle Kauschinger, 22, was allegedly found driving a vehicle on [...]
LIGHTEN UP! The “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” calendar offers the following suggestion: “We all get too serious at times. Perhaps it’s human nature. Yet there’s an enormous difference between someone who gets serious from time to time and someone else who is constantly in the grumble mode. The good news is, it’s never too [...]
SACRAMENTO — La Raza Galería Posada, Sacramento’s non-profit Latino art and cultural center, is having its third annual Panteon de Sacramento, the two-day culminating event of the 2012 Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead program and festivities. Panteon de Sacramento returns to the Midtown location on Oct. 27 and 28 in the large parking [...]
Bill Bennett passed away on July 21 at the age of 87. He was preceded in death by wife Mary April 18 of this year, sister Mary McGinnis in 2010, and son Casey in 2005. Mr. Bennett was born in Sacramento to Edward and May Bennett, attending school through 11th grade at McClatchy High, then graduating [...]
Written to honor the walking wounded following the war brought on by 9/11, Christopher Shinn’s “Dying City” makes a limited run at Capital Stage through Aug. 12. It is the final production of Capital Stage’s seventh season and its first season in its new midtown location. A gripping, psychological drama, “Dying City” focuses on a confrontation [...]
ACCEPTING CONTRADICTIONS OF LIFE: Check out the “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” calendar, and you will discover the following thought: “Inner peace is accomplished by understanding and accepting the inevitable contradictions of life — the pain and pleasure, success and failure, joy and sorrow, births and deaths. Problems can teach us to be gracious, humble, [...]
March 29, 1929 — July 10, 2012 Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time. John J. Klos, 83 and a longtime resident of Rescue, passed away peacefully at home on July 10, 2012, surrounded by his wife Ruth and family. He was born [...]
Jonathan W. Lehrman’s family roots go all the way back to Ellis Island and western Russia before that. His medical roots go back to Sigmund Freud. And despite a Long Island childhood and upbringing, Lehrman looks back most fondly on his 35 years as a “country doctor” in Placerville. At the end of this month, [...]
Whenever a seller or their agent open up their home to prospective buyers there is always a chance of unintended consequences. Stuff happens when strangers go wandering around an unfamiliar home or property that’s listed for sale. I was reminded of how freak incidents occur while reviewing a decision by the United States District Court [...]
El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies converged on El Dorado Hills Town Center on June 12 after a construction worker found a woman’s body hanging in an enclosed trash area. Though originally deemed suspicious — 911 calls made to the Sheriff’s Department the night before the body was discovered reported a woman screaming for help in [...]
El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies converged on El Dorado Hills Town Center Tuesday morning after a woman’s body was found hanging in an enclosed trash area.
“It’s suspicious,” said Sgt. Jim Byers. “It’s out of the ordinary.”
Detectives will treat the case as suspicious unless they find evidence that suggests otherwise, he explained. It’s possible that the woman killed herself.
Byers described the victim as a Caucasian female but no other details about her identity were available.