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Forest Service: Motor Vehicle Travel on National Forests in California

1/5/2009 3:11 PM

As we prepare to start a new year, we would like to take the time to discuss the process the U.S. Forest Service is using to designate roads, trails, and other areas for motor vehicle recreation. Tom Stienstra's recent "Read More

Activist Tim DeChristopher to Appear at SYRCL Film Festival

1/5/2009 2:21 PM

Environmental activist and University of Utah student Tim DeChristopher made national headlines last month by single-handedly disrupting a Bureau of Land Management auction of oil and gas drilling rights on approximately 150,000 acres of southern Utah wilderness. DeChristopher posed as an oil and gas developer and bid hundreds of thousands of doll...Read More

California study shows shade trees reduce summertime electricity use

1/5/2009 12:42 PM

A recent study shows that shade trees on the west and south sides of a house in California can reduce a homeowner's summertime electric bill by about $25.00 a year. The study, conducted last year on 460 single-family homes in Sacramento, is the first large-scale study to use utility billing data to show that trees can reduce energy consumption...Read More

Sierra College Natural History Museum Presents Harry Reynolds, Bear Expert "Climate Change & Earth's Endangered Bears"

1/5/2009 10:34 AM

The Sierra College Natural History Museum will present an illustrated lecture entitled "Climate Change and Earth's Endangered Bears" by Bear Expert Harry Reynolds on Friday, January 30, 2009, at 7:30 PM in Sewell Hall on the Sierra College-Rocklin Campus...Read More

McClintock to take Oath of Office January 6th

1/5/2009 10:01 AM

Congressman-elect Tom McClintock will take the oath of office and be sworn in as the U.S. Representative from California's 4th Congressional District at noon Eastern Standard Time January 6th. A ceremonial swearing in, open to the media, will be held in the Rayburn Room H-207 in the Capitol at 3:15 EST. A reception for constituents and guests will ...Read More

Sugar Bowl Launches "Switch Board" Social Networking Website

1/5/2009 9:51 AM

Sugar Bowl, the classic Tahoe ski resort atop Donner Summit, has launched a new social networking website, The Switch Board, offering ski and snowboard enthusiasts a place to gather online to share stories, photos and videos, as well as post events, author blogs, and even find rideshare buddies for carpooling to the mountain. ...Read More

Idaho-Maryland Mine Public Hearing Notice - Jan. 6

1/5/2009 9:00 AM

Notice is hereby given that the Grass Valley Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as this matter can be heard, in the Council Chambers at Grass Valley City Hall, 125 East Main Street, Grass Valley, California...Read More

Jerianne Van Dijk - Local Artist in Pieces

1/3/2009 11:45 AM

Grass Valley illustrator/artist Jerianne Van Dijk has gone to pieces - literally - and is quite pleased about it...Read More

PG&E energized third and final customer on New Year's Eve

1/2/2009 2:34 PM

On Wednesday, December 31, PG&E energized the third and final customer living in the DarkHorse subdivision on Alexis Court. PG&E crews previously energized two homes on Ironwood Court on December 23....Read More

Mountain Messenger: '09 Already? Are you ready?

1/2/2009 12:53 PM

This should be the year we come out of the political Dark Ages, a time - hopefully now behind us - when science was discredited, scientists muzzled. A time when "bad intelligence" was offered as an excuse for total lack of intelligent action. A time when businesses forgot ours is an economy whose bedrock is the worker/consumer, whom they laid off i...Read More