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By Scott Thomas Anderson Agents for the Amador County Combined Narcotics Enforcement Team told media this week of the arrest of an employee from the Ione Post Office for allegedly selling narcotics through the mail, as well as stealing prescription drugs from veterans. According to authorities, the apprehension of 45-year-old Shelley Lynn Crab happened after [...]
By Scott Thomas Anderson Lodi Fire Captain Joe Hansen spent more than 25 years in the service of saving lives. However, in the cold, dark hours of May 3, there was no one present to try to save his life, as he lay on a mountainous shoulder of Highway 88 — the latest victim [...]
By Matthew Hedger Amador Ledger Dispatch Senior Staff Reporter Scott Thomas Anderson has been presented with a first-place award for “Best Government Reporting” by the California Newspaper Publishers’ Association during their annual meeting in San Jose, on Saturday, May 5. Anderson won for his series on the rippling effects of state legislation known as Assembly [...]
By Scott Thomas Anderson “Suicide is a devastating thing to be around,” an employee of Amador Hills Cremation and Funeral Service told Ledger Dispatch reporters in 2009, after a man killed himself with a gun at the doorway of their business, traumatizing funeral workers, visitors and citizens at a nearby barber shop. Two weeks later, [...]
By Scott Thomas Anderson At least one industry in Amador County is still thriving — wine — and congressman Dan Lungren held a meeting last week to encourage the local industry’s business leaders to explore thinking big and expanding into Asian markets. Wine is booming in the global economy from Beijing to Manila, an economy [...]
By Ledger Dispatch staff The Amador County District Attorney’s Office has decided to charge 56-year-old Rickie Ray Tigue with a stabbing incident that allegedly occured on March 28 of this year. Tigue is a native of Plymouth, although described by some law enforcement as “transient.” According to the Amador County Sheriff’s Office, Tigue was at [...]
By Matthew Hedger mhedger@ledger-dispatch.com Official campaign committee and candidate financial statements, Form 460s, — inexplicably not listed on California Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s web site — filed by Amador County Superior Court Judge candidate Jeff Seaton for two separate periods in 2011, have been located and the information they contain is being presented here. [...]
Grants from Ione Business & Community Association The lone Business and Community Association has announced a number of grants made to civic groups during the past six months. They include $1,500 to the Ione Picnic Association, $1,000 to the Preston Castle Foundation, $500 to the lone Police Department K9 program, $300 to the IBCA Little [...]
Campaign finances take center stage in election battles By Matthew Hedger mhedger@ledger-dispatch.com As the political races for an Amador County Superior Court judgeship and a new state assembly member heat up in the weeks before the June 5 Primary Election, the Ledger Dispatch has compiled a list of campaign finance records submitted by the candidates [...]
Via News Release On Tuesday, April 24, in Oakland, the East Bay Municipal Utility District Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve a revised district Water Supply Management Plan 2040 that drops the controversial expansion of Pardee Reservoir. The expansion would have destroyed at least a mile of the Mokelumne River, including a section eligible [...]
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