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Banner ordinance adopted during “times of economic decline” By Matthew Hedger mhedger@ledger-dispatch.com Amador County supervisors have narrowly approved a new ordinance to regulate the display of advertising “banners” for businesses and non-profit organizations during “times of economic decline,” nearly six months after the issue was first brought before them, and after at least two [...]
By Matthew Hedger Despite recent prognostications that federal and state — and therefore county — economies are beginning to recover, Amador supervisors heard from their CAO this week that some county jobs and services may be on the line as general fund revenues and reserves continue to dwindle. The sobering news was delivered by Chief [...]
Via Press Release special to the ledger dispatch On Tuesday, March 27 in Oakland, the East Bay Municipal Utility District Board of Directors held a workshop on proposed changes to the district’s long-term water plan. EBMUD staff recommended the removal of the proposed Pardee Reservoir expansion from the agency’s Water Supply Management Program 2040, following [...]
Judge candidates have the only sign permits By Matthew Hedger mhedger@ledger-dispatch.com Much like the perennial weeds that sprout after a rainfall, political signs have begun to dot the Amador County landscape in advance of the upcoming June 5 Presidential Primary Election — but not everyone seems to have received the memo about the legal rules [...]
By Matthew Hedger mhedger@ledger-dispatch.com Amador County supervisors have adopted a permanent ordinance to allow the outdoor cultivation of medical marijuana — up to 12 plants per prescripted person, with no more than 24 plants allowed per parcel of land — just in time for the Spring 2012 growing season. The new rules supersede a temporary [...]
By Larry Cenotto special to the ledger dispatch In South Jackson, by Raley’s, is another of those concrete dams that were constructed in our quartz mining era — generally 1851 to 1942 — to allow a gold mine to operate. Others are the Argonaut dam, just off Sutter Street, extended behind Jackson Junior High School, [...]
By Matthew Hedger mhedger@ledger-dispatch.com Supervisorial efforts to enact a permanent ordinance to regulate the outdoor growth of medical marijuana — currently prohibited outright in the wake of an emergency ban enacted in November, 2011, following an alleged murder and robbery at a grow site off Carbondale Road — moved forward slightly this week as county [...]
By Bill Lavallie editor@ledger-dispatch.com 10:30 a.m. Update: Click link above for on the scene video shot by Ledger Dispatch Photographer Bill Lavallie In the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning, firefighters from Jackson Fire Department, CAL FIRE, Sutter Creek Fire, Ione Fire and Amador Fire Protection converged on a raging inferno at the Jack in the [...]
Friday afternoon, Amador County District III Supervisor Ted Novelli was involved in a collision that resulted in life-threatening injuries. Novelli was life-flighted to Sutter-Roseville emergency care facility. Reports on his condition will be posted as they become available. In a phone interview Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. Ted Novelli told Publisher Jack Mitchell he was [...]
By Larry Cenotto special to the ledger dispatch In public and less-public ways does the Amador County Historical Society preserve the county’s history. Examples of public accomplishments are the acquisition of half-ownership in the Amador Central Railroad, thus saving it perhaps from becoming a 10-mile weed patch. Another: the mine models’ remediation and opening [...]
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