EBMUD likely to drop Pardee Reservoir expansion

Written by Union Democrat staff April 04, 2012 01:39 pm Opponents of a controversial proposed expansion to Pardee Reservoir in northern Calaveras County expect that portion of a long-range East Bay Municipal Utility District water supply plan to be eliminated when the district directors vote on it next month. A contingent of environmentalists from Calaveras and Amador counties attended an EBMUD workshop March 27 in Oakland, where directors appeared... Read More

Motherlode Regional Broadband Project Encroachment Permit Approved

April 03, 2012 09:29 am B.J. Hansen, MML News Director Sonora, CA — Work will soon begin in Sonora on a regional project that will boost broadband internet connectivity. In Summer of 2010, the Central Valley Independent Network Fiber Optic Project was awarded $46.6 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The federal money is designed to help rural regions catch up to urban areas when it comes to high speed internet infrastructure.... Read More

Full slate of candidates shaping up in Calaveras

By Dana M. Nichols | Record Staff Writer | March 26, 2012 12:00 AM SAN ANDREAS – Dissatisfaction with the long economic slump and the hope that county government can do something about it has prompted a large field of candidates for three seats on the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors. With four names on the ballot in District 2 and three each in Districts 1 and 4, it also is possible it will be a long campaign. A candidate can win the... Read More

Trinitas foreclosure auction delayed

Posted: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:25 am | Updated: 10:39 am, Tue Mar 20, 2012.Alex George | 0 comments A dozen witnesses shivered under the Calaveras County Superior Court gazebo, hands covered and feet damp, anticipating a foreclosure auction on the final 120-acre parcel of the Trinitas golf course near Wallace.  On Friday morning, that auction, which would have completed the sale of the 280-acre property, was postponed for a second time. Trinitas... Read More

Bank Owns Part of Trinitas After Zero Bid Auction

By Dana M. Nichols Record Staff Writer March 03, 2012 12:00 AM SAN ANDREAS – Part of the Trinitas golf course property went up for sale at a foreclosure auction Friday on the Calaveras County Superior Court plaza in San Andreas. There were no bidders, which means that Community Bank of San Joaquin now owns a 160-acre chunk of the golf course. The parcel claimed by the bank also includes both a home and a maintenance building with converted living... Read More

Judge Allows Golf To Go On At Trinitas

By Dana M. Nichols Record Staff Writer February 22, 2012 12:00 AM SAN ANDREAS – Golf can continue at the Trinitas golf course near Burson while course owners Mike and Michelle Nemee appeal to a U.S. District Court to overturn a loss they suffered in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, a judge has ruled. Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill of the U.S. Eastern District Court branch in Fresno wrote in a ruling posted late Friday that allowing Calaveras County to... Read More

Judge Rules Bank Can Try To Unload Trinitas Property At March Sale

By Dana M. Nichols February 10, 2012 Record Staff Writer SACRAMENTO – A U.S. bankruptcy judge approved a Stockton bank’s request Thursday to sell the 280-acre Trinitas golf course property at a foreclosure sale. The golf course was built without permits in an agricultural preserve south of Wallace on the western edge of Calaveras County. Owners Mike and Michelle Nemee filed for bankruptcy in 2009 after Community Bank of San Joaquin foreclosed... Read More

Judge Rules Against Trinitas

Posted to CalaverasEnterprise.com: Friday, February 10, 2012 9:17 am | Updated: 9:35 am, Fri Feb 10, 2012. After nearly three years of motions, hearings, and appeals, the Trinitas battle appears to have reached a major turning point. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Ronald Sargis has decided to allow the Community Bank of San Joaquin to foreclose on the 280 acres of land which is the principal asset claimed by Michael and Michelle Nemee. Last month, Sargis... Read More

Forest industries of Amador, Calaveras getting $16 million boost

By Dana M. Nichols Record Staff Writer February 03, 2012 12:00 AM SAN ANDREAS – Economically depressed Amador and Calaveras counties are about to receive millions of dollars in forest-restoration funding from the federal government. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced Thursday a 10-year commitment of up to $16 million to revive the health of forest-related industries on national forest lands in the two counties. The Cornerstone... Read More

New Auto Emission Standards Approved

LA Times/SR/Jan 28, 2012 LOS ANGELES- California, long a national leader in cutting auto pollution, pushed the envelope further Friday as state regulators approved rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and put significantly more pollution-free vehicles on the road in coming years. The package of Air Resources Board regulations would require auto manufacturers to offer more zero- or low-emission cars such as battery electric, hydrogen fuel... Read More