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PLACERVILLE AIRPLANE BROKER ACCUSED OF LAUNDERING MONEY FOR DRUG RUNNERS -- "The principal object of the conspiracy was to … increase sales of planes at Stancil Enterprises Inc. by obtaining business from apparently criminal elements who wished to purchase planes with currency while evading all cash transaction reporting requirements," the complaint said. Donald Heller, an attorney for Stancil, said his client didn't know the buyers and was not aware that the customers were involved in criminal activities. His father, Joe Stancil Sr., who founded the car dealership, is well known for his community work in Placerville, which named a skate park after him.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/03/4236005/placerville-airplane-broker-accused.html

TRAIL USERS AT ODDS OVER HISTORIC TRACK -- "for the time being the tracks will remain, however, in the future they may be pulled to accommodate a hiking and biking trail" said trail-booster President Mike Kenison
http://folsomtelegraph.com/detail/199694.html

FREE BUSINESS WORKSHOP OFFERED ON GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING -- Feb. 14, Pre-registration is required due to limited seating
http://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/business-workshop-offered-on-government-contracting/

FORECLOSURE LOOMS FOR ANGELO K. TSAKOPOULOS OFFICE COMPLEX -- Tsakopoulos has lost property before. In 1993 the Laguna West development property was taken over by Bank of America after efforts failed to restructure a $60 million loan. Less than a year later, however, Tsakopoulos bought the land back at a reported price of less than $15 million
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/09/4249971/foreclosure-looms-for-angelo-k.html

SECURITY PROBLEMS TROUBLE SCHOOL NETBOOKS -- Dee, a South Lake Tahoe parent, recently caught her middle school-aged son looking at pornography on the machine. Her understanding was that the computers were blocked from accessing explicit sites. “I am totally appalled and I just don't know what to do,” she said.
www.tahoedailytribune.com/ARTICLE/20120208/NEWS/120209880/

FOLSOM DAM WILL GET $7.42M FOR MORE WATER STORAGE, FLOOD PROTECTION
www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2012/02/08/folsom-dam-storage-flood-protection.html

LOCAL ECONOMY RECOVERY HINGES ON JOBS, HOME PRICES -- “As soon as this state becomes business friendly, then the unemployment rate will begin to drop, and housing and the economy will follow.”
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2012/02/08/poll-economy-recovery-jobs-homes-sacrame.html

JONI WINES, CORRUPTION-BUSTING SHERIFF DIED AT LAKE TAHOE -- She was the first elected Sheriff and was noted in the saga that became the subject of Jeanie Kasindorf’s book "The Nye County Brothel Wars/A Tale of the New West", described by a New York Times critic as “splendid … a taut account of a chain of vicious acts perpetrated by a group of toughs”
http://www.newsreview.com/reno/joni-wines-1926-2012/content?oid=5103249

TOUR TO CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY -- "Ray’s son was believed to be between 5 and 10 years old when he was sold to another slaveholder in Texas, the family was reunited decades later in Placerville, where they mined for gold"
http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/63502/Historic_City_Cemetery_tour_to_celebrate_Black_History

WHY I’M RUNNING FOR CONGRESS -- Sam Aanestad
http://www.flashreport.org/featured-columns-library0b.php?faID=2012020908420508

MILLION-DOLLAR CITY YACHT IS REALLY MORE OF A BOAT, Insists L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa -- deep in a budget hole, the city is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to maintain a million-dollar touring yacht
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/02/la_city_yacht_mayor.php

CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME TO SUE ARMY CORPS OVER LEVEE TREE BAN
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/09/4250375/california-fish-and-game-to-sue.html

DEPENDENCE ON GOVERNMENT HIGHEST IN HISTORY -- We also have to embolden charities, local groups, and private-sector initiatives to empower individuals through programs that require more “skin in the game.” Far too often, these good Samaritans are pushed aside by government zeal to provide inferior and bureaucratized services
blog.heritage.org/2012/02/09/morning-bell-dependence-on-government-highest-in-history

Pre-registration is required due to limited seating.

For any small business, declining revenue calls for bold remedies. Why not make one of those remedies tapping into the government procurement pipeline? To assist with the introductory basics of contracting with the government, El Dorado County is sponsoring a free workshop entitled Getting Started with Government Contracting 9 a.m.-noon Tuesday, Feb. 14. It will be held in the County Government Center, 330 Fair Lane, Building A, OES Conference Room, Placerville.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood toured the Siemens light-rail vehicle manufacturing plant in Sacramento Wednesday. LaHood met with workers and discussed the Obama administration’s policies on rail development with Siemens vice president of strategic business development Robin Stimson.

The Folsom Dam joint federal project will receive $7.42 million from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reserve fund, and a separate project to raise the dam will receive another $720,000 from the fund, Congresswoman Doris Matsui announced Wednesday.

Cisco Systems Inc. posted a 44 percent jump in second-quarter profit to $2.2 billion, or 40 cents a share, sending its stock up in after-hours trading. Revenue rose to $11.5 billion from $10.4 billion a year ago. The San Jose networking giant's adjusted income was 47 cents a share, beating analyst projections for between 38 cents and 43 cents a share.

My wife Georgi and I have lived in our home for more than 18 years now and we decided it was time to begin an updating process for the house.A So far all updates are going very well.

My wife Georgi and I have lived in our home for more than 18 years now and we decided it was time to begin an updating process for the house.A So far all updates are going very well.

California 's Gold Rush was more than a century-and-a-half ago, but its Wild West spirit lives on in a dispute between government agencies and a landowner in the Sierra Nevada foothills that some officials describe as one of the most egregious cases of illegal mining they have ever encountered.

California 's Gold Rush was more than a century-and-a-half ago, but its Wild West spirit lives on in a dispute between government agencies and a landowner in the Sierra Nevada foothills that some officials describe as one of the most egregious cases of illegal mining they have ever encountered.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.

California's Gold Rush was more than a century-and-a-half ago, but its Wild West spirit lives on in a dispute between government agencies and a landowner in the Sierra Nevada foothills that some officials describe as one of the most egregious cases of illegal mining they have ever encountered.

DEATH INVESTIGATION TURNS UP EXPLOSIVES IN EL DORADO COUNTY -- A coroner's investigation of a of a man's death in a rural area of of El Dorado County turned up a store of explosive materials at the 2300 block of Sandridge Road
http://goo.gl/udYbk

FEDERAL JUDGE GIVES NORTHERN CALIF POT GROWER 9-YEAR SENTENCE -- A federal judge has sentenced a northern California marijuana grower to nine years in prison for running a sophisticated pot operation in El Dorado County
http://goo.gl/BAeSu

WILTSE COURT DEAD MAN ID’D --Authorities have identified the body of a man found on a small road near a Placerville park earlier this month.  Anthony Coltra, 29, was found dead on a fire access road near Placerville’s Lumsden Park on Jan. 20.
http://goo.gl/UkPrZ

GOVERNOR NAMES TRIBAL ADVISOR -- MS. GOMEZ has been the chief justice for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok
http://goo.gl/ZVYTL

FORMER PRESCHOOL TEACHER SUES CITY OVER STUN GUN INCIDENT
http://goo.gl/Lfb43

FREE WINE TASTING IN EL DORADO HILLS on Feb. 16
http://goo.gl/ZvSDQ

YOU’LL NEVER FORGET A CHOCOLATE AFFAIR -- A Chocolate Affair is Saturday, Feb. 11, at 6 p.m
http://goo.gl/k6b1C

CA MINE DISPUTE RECALLS WILD PAST -- California's Gold Rush was more than a century-and-a-half ago, but its Wild West spirit lives on in a dispute between government agencies and a landowner in the Sierra Nevada foothills
http://goo.gl/6KLPO

SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT APPLIES FOR GRANT FUNDING FOR THE RUBICON TRAIL
http://goo.gl/fjQVP

AMERICAN RIVER, PLACERVILLE -- Last landscape shot of the week, finally had some time to try out my new variable ND filter
http://goo.gl/VIiMn

SAM AANESTAD TO RUN FOR CONGRESS, SETTING UP BATTLE WITH FELLOW REPUBLICAN DOUG LAMALFA
http://goo.gl/M8clP

HOUSE PANEL APPROVES KEYSTONE PIPELINE BILL -- legislation that would reverse President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline
http://goo.gl/0TUEn

MIDDLE EAST CRUMBLES AROUND OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY -- Opinion by Mike Brownfield
http://goo.gl/b8yRD

OBAMACARE AWAKENS A SLEEPING GIANT -- It is a rare moment indeed when faith denominations of all stripes unite together in common cause, and it is rarer still when that cause is a political one, with a sole piece of legislation as its principal target
http://goo.gl/Zgo90

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Do the benefits of technology outweigh the problems it can cause? For some parents, Lake Tahoe Unified's netbook program sways back and forth between the question's two answers.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Do the benefits of technology outweigh the problems it can cause? For some parents, Lake Tahoe Unified's netbook program sways back and forth between the question's two answers.

The Wild West spirit of California's Gold Rush is living on in a dispute between government agencies and a Sierra Nevada landowner.

The nights are longer. The air is colder.

Across California thousands of people are burned every year in fires and countless lives are lost, including young children.

Everyone is invited to come to the Potluck with Entertainment on Friday at the South Lake Tahoe Senior Center, 3050 Lake Tahoe Blvd. Enjoy sharing good food, socializing, fun and interesting entertainment.

The Douglas County Democratic Central Committee will discuss the annual Keep Nevada Blue Dinner at its meeting Feb. 23 at the Democratic Headquarters, 513 Highway 395 N. Suite 1C, Gardnerville.