Calaveras Lumber was voted the Best Hardware Store in the entire state of California by Stihl’s 2025 Hardware All Stars, and Jodie Brixey, general manager of Calaveras and Sonora Lumber, is celebrating with her staff. “It’s a huge recognition as we were up against some of the best and biggest hardware stores,” Jodie expressed. “It’s our employees who deserve […]
Opinion
Former Enterprise GM pens western U.S. geology booklet
Former Enterprise general manager and editor E.W. “Buzz” Eggleston hosted a signing in Murphys on July 31 for his new, 54-page booklet, “The Nevadaplano: A Brief Geology of the West.” Toward the end of this three-hour event on the lawn outside of the Murphys Pourhouse, Eggleston met with this newspaper to share details about his recently released San Andreas-based Manzanita […]
7/31 Letter to the Editor
Re: Democrats’ Big Mistake 7/24/25 I am quite offended that congressman McClintock considers protests “obnoxious”! Peaceful protest against government is a bedrock constitutional right. The Big, Beautiful, Bill (BBB) you so proudly espouse is nothing more than trickle down cruelty. Why did congress set Medicaid cuts to begin after the mid term elections in 2026? So you can then blame […]
Saving our History in Valley Springs
I bought my property in Valley Springs in 1988, a residential/agriculture zoned 5-acre plot with nothing on it except four big blue oak trees. I was looking for an area with good water so that I could start a wholesale nursery. I don’t claim to have any psychic powers, but I did have a dream that wherever I went, I […]
Love at First Sight Part II
I finally did get to take Jane out to dinner, where we talked about the Bruins and the weather. While we were waiting for dessert to be delivered, I asked her to marry me, and captured her so off-guard, she said yes. Jane had never been west of New York, so a move to Maui would be an anomaly, not […]
The Democrats’ Big Mistake
The Big, Beautiful Bill is now the law, so it’s no longer a theoretical discussion about what the bill might do. We’re about to find out what it will do. The Democrats have succeeded in frightening Americans into lopsided opposition. On the day it passed the House, a Quinnipiac poll registered just 29 percent public support compared to […]
What is the Formula for Deciding When to Claim?
By Russell GloorLast week’s column reminded me of a love affair out there on Old Cape Cod… To punish me I guess, our program director at WOCB sent me to a resort to host a remote broadcast of a backgammon tournament on a Sunday afternoon. My first reaction, which I kept to myself, was, “You’re condemning me to death by a thousand […]
Watch out for Signs
By Don UrbanusMy friend, Monika Rose, and her husband, Gary, are having their 50th wedding anniversary. Boy, that seems like an awfully long time. I’m not even close to that. Of course, I didn’t get married until I was twenty-nine. I figured, what’s the hurry? I almost met someone in college. When she finally agreed to go out with me after months […]
Blood donors needed July 22 in San Andreas
It’s getting to be time again for returning donors and an opportune time for new ones to roll up those sleeves and give blood at the San Andreas Town Hall. The Calaveras Community Foundation is sponsoring another Calaveras Community Blood Drive with continuing partner Vitalant along with local participants, helping ensure that blood is available when it is needed. Whether […]
Captain Cook and Me
By McAvoy LayneI discovered a letter today that I had written to my dear mother from Buzzards Bay away back in 1979, when I was news director of WOCB Radio… Hi Mom, yesterday was such a pretty spring day here on Old Cape Cod, I decided to celebrate with my first sailing adventure on the Sound. So I tied a bandana around […]
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