The March 1 snow surveys showed NID’s highest course, Webber Peak, at 7,800 feet, had 69.6 inches of snow with a water content of 23.8 inches. The English Mountain snow course (7,100 ft.) had 91.9 inches of snow with a water content of 35 inches.
The six-hour telethon featured a number of literary figures, including poets Molly Fisk, Steve Sanfield and Gary Snyder, who won a Pulitzer Prize. Musician Ludi Hinrichs played the didgeridoo and trombone at the telethon.
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Community Happenings is a monthly feature of the Nevada City Advocate. This month we have reports on Paulette Gilbert, the costume director at Foothill Theatre, which is now closed; John Lenz, who recently retired from Citizens Bank, Rotary Club relief efforts for Haiti and a listing of the new board members for the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce....
Road crews are doing an overlay project this week on South Pine Street as part of the city’s preparations for the race, an eight-day, 750-mile international competition that starts in Nevad City and ends in Thousand Oaks.
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2-1-1 is a free,3 digit telephone number that gives everyone access to the vital community services that they need. People speaking any language or with any disability can call and speak to a live information and referral specialist, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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This is the first in a series of tapestries intended to express the history and culture of the San Juan Ridge and its meaning as a place. It was conceived and organized as a community project by long-time Ridge resident and notable weaver Marsha Stone.
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Renowned women’s rights activist Gloria Feldt reminded us that to create a movement we must actually move into action. ...
What’s next: The next meeting of the Library Ad Hoc Committee at will be held at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, in the Empire Room on the second floor of the Rood Center.
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Supervisor Ed Scofield asked how the county could be assured the treasurer was making sound investments when the same office would be auditing its performance. Currently, the auditor-controller verifies the performance of the investments, which are made by the treasurer/tax collector.
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A North San Juan man has been booked on murder charges after an Elk Grove man died as a result of a traffic accident that occurred as he was fleeing the scene of an armed invasion of a home where marijuana was allegedly stolen by two men dressed as police officers, according to the Nevada County Sheriff’s Department.
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