New Riparian Restoration Connection Website Offers Funding & Training Opportunities!

Hello! The Tamarisk Coalition,a non-profit alliance working to restore riparian lands, is excited to announce the launch of a new website called the Riparian Restoration Connection (RRC) http://www.riparianrestorationconnection.com/. This new resource has been created to help connect the riparian restoration community in the West to funding opportunities, trainings, conferences, events, and other educational opportunities specifically relevant to... Read More

Sweet Home Calaveras

For many high school students in Calaveras County, graduation offers the opportunity to free oneself from what Mark Twain Elementary teacher Jeff Airola described as the “Calaveras bubble.” Students are free to explore the broader world or, as many local teens phrase it, escape. What many students may not anticipate is that even after branching out into the greater environment Calaveras County may call them back. In a 2008 video produced by Bret... Read More

Troubled waters for ‘Bump’ festivals

Popular Tulloch event target of lawsuit Calaveras County is looking to quiet Lake Tulloch Resort’s oft-debated Bump parties in court, seeking a permanent injunction against events the county describes as a “public nuisance.” The Sept. 4 lawsuit centers on whether Bump parties, which routinely draw between 1,500 and 3,000 attendees, qualify as a legal land use under the resort’s decades-old administrative use permit. Resort owner Bernadette... Read More

Curtain call: CUSD may drop theater project

Posted: Friday, September 21, 2012 By Mike Taylor Calaveras Enterprise As its financial future teeters on the brink, trustees of the Calaveras Unified School District may close the curtain on the performing arts center planned for Calaveras High School. The theater was promised to voters in 2006, when Measure A, a $13.5 million facilities bond was passed. In 2008, former Superintendent Jim Frost said that the district might have asked for too little... Read More

Calaveras High School Earth Club Meets with CAP

CAP’s Tom Infusino meets with Calaveras High School Earth Club at Big Trees State Park. Tom has spoken to a range of age groups on nature related topics in the past, and likes to integrate the topics. “I not only explain about the life of the plants and trees (e.g. how they grow, how they protect themselves, how they help each other, etc.), I like to talk about the life lessons we can learn from them (e.g. how to grow, how to protect... Read More

Where’s the beef? How an old business can create new jobs

Despite Calaveras County’s high unemployment, Paloma resident Sean Kriletich is bullish on the local economy. The goat and pig rancher sees greener pastures ahead. Kriletich and his father, Michael, are drawing up plans that would bring a meat processing plant to the Mother Lode. As an agricultural and natural resources representative at Calaveras Grown, Sean is well-versed on the challenges facing area ranchers. “The whole issue is essentially... Read More

Sawmill project bad for ecology

http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/content/tncms/live/ Posted: Friday, September 21, 2012 10:37 am Whatever one may think of Castle & Cook’s “Sawmill” project, it is nothing less than an ecological calamity in the making. I refer specifically to the intent to relocate – up to? – 8,000 oak trees, one assumes by cutting down that number and replacing them with saplings elsewhere. Speaking as a field botanist and mid-Sierra wildflower... Read More

Vote on Lode project delayed

By Dana M. Nichols Record Staff Writer September 14, 2012 12:00 AM SAN ANDREAS – The faces of Calaveras County planning commissioners showed visible relief Thursday afternoon as they found a way to delay for three months making any decisions on the 800-home Sawmill Lake development proposed for Copperopolis. Sawmill Lake is the largest and most significant development fight to come before the commission in at least five years. The project would... Read More

Hard times loom for schools

Posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:09 am Hard times loom for schools By Mike Taylor Calaveras Enterprise Whether or not one or both of the state ballot measures pass in November, at least one Calaveras County school district is facing a dismal future bereft of football games and students playing musical instruments. In July, Calaveras Unified School District trustees were told when they approved their 2012-2013 budget that it was tenuous at best.... Read More

Meat processing plant draws interest

Two public meetings have been scheduled in September where county residents can gather to listen to a presentation and make comments regarding building a livestock processing facility in the region. CalaverasGROWN secured a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study the feasibility of building such a facility in the Central Sierra Region, and the results of this study will be presented at the meetings. On Monday, Sept. 17, a meeting will... Read More