Looking for fun activities for the whole family? Join the El Dorado County Library for the summertime fun of Filmfare. Bring a lawn chair, blanket, etc. and sit on the front lawn of the El Dorado County Library, 345 Fair Lane in Placerville, and enjoy offbeat and often silly projector films from all different genres [...]

In step with Sacramento Mayor, Kevin Johnson’s proclamation of Sacramento as the Farm to Fork Capital of the World, the American River College Foundation and Amador Vintners bring the best of food and wine together to celebrate the ground-breaking of the college’s new school of culinary arts. The evening of Saturday, May 18 from 5 [...]

What: Spring 2013 Membership Art Exhibit Who: Sierra Pastel Society Where: El Dorado County Government Center, Building B, 360 Fair Lane in Placerville When: Showing to Friday, May 17 during business hours Cost: No admission Information: 530-889-0549 or the Sierra Pastel Website at sierrapastelsociety.net The Sierra Pastel Society Spring 2013 Membership Art Exhibit continues to Friday, May 17 at the El Dorado [...]

Air Force Reserve Airman Nickolas T. Bradley graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training earn four [...]

Lost books are commonplace at the El Dorado Hills Library, but the one Peter Ferraro brought in recently was something altogether new, if a 127-year old Bible can be called new. The former San Francisco sanitation worker pulled the old Bible from the trash back in the 1980s and thought it was time to find [...]

What: Garden of the Hills tour Who: Assistance League of Sierra Foothills Where: El Dorado County gardens When: Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and 5 Cost: $20 for adults and $10 for children 10 and younger. Information: sierrafoothills.assistanceleague.org or e-mail alsierrafotthills@gmail.com When it comes to Lynn Anderson’s garden, color is the main ingredient. He achieves this by carefully tending to his [...]

During National Volunteer Week in April Snowline Hospice honored its core of dedicated volunteers who provide support, companionship and dignity to members of the community facing serious and life-limiting illness. “We could not do the work we do without the gifts of time and talent from our hospice volunteers who support our organization and walk with [...]

“It is amazing to look back and say, I did that.” It has been two years since Amanda Fogelman hiked to the top of North Dome in Yosemite and helped build trails in Inyo National Forest. “I’m so glad I got to experience (Epic Sierra) and I know a lot of people won’t do it [...]

SACRAMENTO — Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway with Runaway Stage Productions as it presents the classic comedy musical “42nd Street.” The production runs to Sunday, May 5 at 24th Street Theatre, located at the Sierra 2 Center. Based on the classic 1933 movie musical of the same name, 42nd Street tells [...]

Petroglyphe Gallery welcomes the arrival of spring with live musical performances to awaken the passion and enliven the senses. The gallery’s next Spring Sunday Fine Art Concert will be held on Sunday, April 21 in historic downtown Mokelumne Hill, 8317 Main St. This special event will feature harpist, Motoshi Kosako, and will be preceded by [...]

The Folsom Historic District Association’s 47th Spring Antique Fair, is Sunday, April 21 on Historic Sutter St. from 8 a.m.to 4 p.m. Thousands of shoppers from Reno to San Francisco will fill the four-block historic district for this popular regional event featuring more than 150 booths with a wide range of antique and collectible merchandise: [...]

Local residents and Internet viewers are continuing to enjoy much of the new programming on Foothill 7 Television, especially the continuing local segments that feature local charitable organizations in El Dorado County. The Boys and Girls Club of El Dorado County is the latest production by Foothill 7 Television that is airing daily on Comcast [...]

Kacee Taylor of Shingle Springs and David Freitas of Wilton have announced their engagement. The bride is the daughter of Robert and Linda Taylor of Shingle Springs. She is a 2007 Ponderosa High School graduate. She is working toward her bachelors degree in psychology with a concentration on community and mental health at William Jessup University in [...]

Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Abel Del Real-Nava graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training [...]

It is hard to imagine, but 2013 marks the 17th consecutive Box Lunch event for CASA El Dorado. Each year more than 125 volunteers gather at the Diamond Springs Firehouse at the unheard of hour of 4 a.m. to put together and then deliver over 4,000 lunches. It is an amazing effort. If ever there [...]

Folsom Lake College celebrates Earth Week from Monday, April 15 to Friday, April 19 with a wide variety of free activities, sponsored in part by the college’s Eco Club, El Dorado Center Student Activities Club, and Associated Student Organization, along with select local businesses and many faculty and staff volunteers. The community is invited to [...]

JAMESTOWN — Beginning in April, Railtown 1897 State Historic Park (SHP) in Jamestown will resume offering popular steam-powered excursion train rides on weekends from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. While the park is open daily, guests will enjoy a memorable 6 mile, 45 minute round trip ride along the rails of the famous “Movie Railroad.” [...]

If the question were asked, “Who forged the genre known today as modern country music,” only a tiny group of country immortals could step forward to share the spotlight. One, out of that select handful, would be Merle Haggard. Merle Haggard and The Strangers will perform at Three Stage, 10 College Parkway in Folsom, on [...]

Army Pvt. Daniel M. Naygrow Jr. has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, [...]

Jana Albert of Burbank and Scott Schwartz of Woodmere, N.Y. have announced their engagement. The bride is the daughter of Eddie and Marilyn Albert of Shingle Springs. She is a 1991 Ponderosa High School graduate and a 1997 University of California, Davis graduate, earning her BA in history and minor in eastern Asian studies. She works in [...]