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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
HELP! Federal funding cuts are hurting our kids
By Louise SimsonI don’t want to get into politics here. I am the first person to tell you when the State enacts absolutely STUPID funding measures that make no sense. I am also a clear voice to tell you at a local level that the proposed withholding of Federal Funds will result in a $320,000 or more loss annually to Mark Twain […]
Murphys Homecoming and Duck Races Saturday in Murphys Park
By Jan HoveyMurphys Homecoming and Duck Races Saturday in Murphys Park There will be something entertaining for every member of the family when the 79th annual Murphys Homecoming kicks off on Saturday, July 19 from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Murphys Community Park. “This is completely a family event – very affordable and enjoyable,” said an enthusiastic representative from the Murphys […]
Founding Incline Village
As this is Pine Nuts num- ber 1,664, I thought it might be fun to look back 26 years to column number one, to see just how bad it was. Please don’t let Historian Emeritus Richard Miner see this, he who tells me I’m a good historian where facts are not essential… Circa 1956, Harold Tiller and Art Wood, our […]
Death Ride traverses three passes July 12
By Jan HoveyThe full course of the 44th annual Death Ride on Saturday, July 12, encompasses 103 miles with a 14,000-foot elevation gain over Ebbetts, Carson and Monitor passes. This event is not for the faint-of-heart cyclist! “It’s not a race – it’s a tour,” said a representative from the Alpine County Chamber of Commerce, the event’s host. “There are six rated […]
The clones are everywhere!
By Don UrbanusI didn’t realize how advanced cloning has become. From a sunflower-size piece of tissue, preferably skin or part of an ear, just about any animal can be cloned. It doesn’t matter if they are alive or dead. Did you love Fido, your dog, so much you want him back? Got $35,000? No problem. Sylvester the cat? Same thing. Want to […]
What Starlings can teach us
By McAvoy LayneWe don’t have Starlings up here at the Lake of the Sky, though I wish we did, as recent research has discovered that Starlings give care to birds to whom they are not related. And they administer that kindness regardless of those other birds’ political beliefs. Say what?! I believe I must have been a bird in my last life, […]
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