Rewards totaling up to $5,500 have been offered in connection with the case of a cat shot in the head with a crossbow-style arrow in Diamond Springs in December.

$5,500 IN REWARDS OFFERED IN CONNECTION WITH CASE OF CAT SHOT WITH ARROW IN DIAMOND SPRINGS -- "Our officers have been investigating the case but we have not come up with any solid leads yet," sadi Henry Brzezinski, Chief of El Dorado County Animal
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SUPES EYE ‘FOOD RIGHTS’ -- More than 200 people overfilled the 175-person BOS room to support the “Local Food and Community Self-Governance Ordinance.”  Supervisor Ray Nutting asked, "Can you imagine what our grandparents would say if the government said that they could not share the food they raised with thier neighbors?"
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300 LB MOUNTAIN LION Drawn in by Bad Habits --  Help needed
http://goo.gl/1erYM

AS GOLD HITS $1,700/OZ. DREDGERS LAMENT LOST INCOME -- “We don’t have a revenue problem, said Supervisor Nutting. “We have a regulatory problem,” The state is regulating us off our lands and taking our rights away.”
http://goo.gl/XrAk9

The CENTRAL SIERRA GROWER'S TREE FRUIT MEETING is February 15, 2012!
http://goo.gl/w4IYE

GAINES RECEIVES STRONG PRO-JOBS BUSINESS RATING -- Assemblywomen Beth Gaines received an "A" grade from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) for her strong, pro-business voting record
http://goo.gl/H8Jr9

MORE THAN OIL SPEWING FROM KEYSTONE PIPELINE DECISION
http://goo.gl/SRxZj

THE BUSINESS JOURNAL NEEDS YOUR HELP -- "Expert Advice," will ask tap local business owners and executives for wisdom to address questions that all growing businesses face — for example, how to make the most of social media
http://goo.gl/IfV6v

STATE TO RUN OUT OF CASH IN MARCH -- cash management solutions are needed because state tax revenues are $2.6 billion less than what Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers assumed in their optimistic budget last year. Meanwhile, Chiang said, the state is spending $2.6 billion more than state leaders planned on.
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JERRY BROWN NEGOTIATES GAMBLING DEALS AS TRIBES FILL CAMPAIGN FUND
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CBO SAYS FEDERAL EMPLOYEES RAKE IN MUCH MORE PAY -- federal workers earn 16 percent more in total compensation
http://goo.gl/l8K9R

FIRST, THEY CAME FOR THE CATHOLICS
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ROMNEY’S FLORIDA WIN: CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS PICKING THEIR MAN -- Buried in the exit polls from Romney’s more than 15 point win over Newt Gingrich is the fact that Romney won Protestants, Catholics, and virtually tied among evangelicals. Tea Partiers too broke for Romney.  Female voters fueled Romney's victory, favoring him by 23 percentage points over the thrice-married Gingrich, whose second wife went public less than two weeks ago with new details of his six-year affair with a former congressional staffer who is now his third wife.
http://goo.gl/yUy7n

Rewards totaling up to $5,500 have been offered in connection with the case of a cat shot in the head with a crossbow-style arrow in Diamond Springs in December.

SHARI OF BERRY FAME HAS MOVED HER OFFICE TO PLACERVILLE AND NOW LIVES IN THE AREA -- “I’m looking to open a new strawberry-chocolate store on Main Street,” Fitzpatrick said. She wants to feature a berry bar and wine tasting, with different wineries joining her for a month at a time
http://goo.gl/I1rQw

ROBOTICS COMPETITION CHALLENGES STUDENTS -- More than 14 Northern California robotics teams will be competing this Sunday at a FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Qualifying Tournament at Oak Ridge High School
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CHAZ SMITH OF THE HANGTOWN SABER CLUB WINS USA FENCING’S VETERAN EVENT at the North American Cup
http://goo.gl/NFHVX

DEATH OF REDEVELOPMENT IN CALIFORNIA A COMPLICATED TALE -- How the City of South Lake tahoe comingles its money does not help with clearly separating what goes where
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MAKING THE ROUNDS: FIRST QUESTION AT COLD SPRINGS: 9, 18 OR 12? -- Nine holes or 18. Golfers have pretty much been limited to those options for 250 years. Earl, the general manager at Cold Springs, has created a 12-hole option
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EL DORADO COUNTY OFFICE OF ECDUCATION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2010-11 FISCAL YEAR AUDIT
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NO CHARGES FILED AGAINST FORMER EID CANDIDATE CAREY -- Prosecutors have declined to file charges against the former El Dorado Irrigation District board candidate who suspended his campaign following his November arrest
http://goo.gl/d2gld

FORMER NAPA WINEMAKER MAKES A NEW NAME IN SIERRA FOOTHILLS -- A decade has passed since Marco Cappelli, so closely identified with Napa Valley, packed up and left the nation's most highly regarded wine region for an isolated and remote area recognized more for apples, walnuts and cattle than grapes.
http://goo.gl/eyB5M

AUTHOR REVEALS A LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE IN FIRST BOOK -- In 1964, a naive 19-year-old from Shingle Springs went to Berkeley County, South Carolina and she was preparing to register African Americans to vote. Leaving behind the Beach Boys and California sunshine, Holbrook entered a wet, steamy world of poverty, illiteracy, despair, prejudice and danger. In her first book,”You Came Here to Die, Didn’t You,” Sheri Holbrook Labedis lets the reader experience a culture, a way of life and a history wholly foreign to ...
http://goo.gl/U7V23

AUTHOR SHERIE LABEDIS HOLBROOK TO DISCUSS HER BOOK - You Came Here to Die, Didn’t You at the El Dorado County Library on Saturday
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FUTURE AGAIN UNCERTAIN FOR HERRICK BUILDING AND HANGMAN’S BAR -- To rescue this historical unreinforced brick building, whose true condition is camouflaged by a coat of white stucco, will be monumental task
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1933 FORD TRUCK AT DEPOT -- Sharon and Ron Evans of Crystal Hill Ranch in Placerville stopped by the El Dorado Western Railroad Depot in Diamond Springs with their 1933 Ford truck
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NORTH COAST CRAB SEASON OPENS -- The North Coast from Mendocino upward opened Sunday to commercial crabbers. The opening was delayed more than a month by state Department of Fish and Game
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CAPITOL WEEKLY ENDS PRINT EDITION -- the 23-year-old chronicle of state government in Sacramento, announced today that it is suspending its print edition effective Thursday
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JUDGE TO END CALIF. PRISON RECEIVER -- A federal judge on Tuesday ordered California officials to prepare for the end of a six-year, court-ordered oversight of the prison system that has cost taxpayers billions of dollars and helped force a shift of lower-level criminals from state prisons to county jails
http://goo.gl/AnXBt

E-TRADE SETTLEMENT INCLUDES REFUND TO CALIFORNIA INVESTORS
http://goo.gl/u3yPS

WORKERS' COMP INSURERS BUMP UP RATES -- collectively by an average of 2.8 percent for 2012
http://goo.gl/pmkhz

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT APPROVES CALIFORNIA'S NEW POLITICAL DISTRICTS
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RECESS APPOINTMENTS MIGHT NOT HOLD -- Some legal experts, including those who have sided with President Obama on other constitutional issues, think there is a good chance the courts could overturn his recent recess appointments
http://goo.gl/RA3eT

ANTI-ROMNEY DOCUMENTARY MAY NOT BE A BANE FOR HIS CAMPAIGN AFTER ALL -- The video in question is called “The King of Bain,” and was released by the pro-Newt Gingrich super-PAC Winning Our Future. reviews of the film were so universally bad that even Gingrich, whom the video was designed to help, eventually called on its distributors to stop running it or fix the falsehoods in it.
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Events Today:

GIVE BLOOD – RECEIVE A T-SHIRT 3:30 pm
http://goo.gl/bGF2U

New Slab Creek Powerhouse Project Meeting 6:00 PM
http://goo.gl/f8U0n

Chaz Smith knocks off two-time world champion for the gold

DIAMOND SPRINGS — In a stunning upset, Chaz Smith of the Hangtown Saber Club won USA Fencing’s Veteran event at the North American Cup (NAC) in Kansas City Dec. 11, defeating a two-time Veteran World champion to take the gold. Hangtown’s head coach, Ted Smith, took bronze in his Veteran event.

This NAC was the first of three qualifying events that will determine the national team named to represent the US at the 2012 Veteran World Championships.

“My goal is to make the US team going to Austria for Veteran Worlds next fall,” Chaz said. “And this was a good test of my progress.”

Chaz faced Jane Eyre, the current world silver medalist in Veteran 50, and two-time world champion, three times over the weekend.

“I drew Jane in the quarterfinals in Veteran 50, ran up an early lead, but allowed her to outsmart me at the end and lost 9-10,” Chaz said. “In the Veteran combined event, I had her in my pool and beat her 5-3. That gave me confidence when I faced her in the gold-medal match.”

Again ahead early, this time Chaz pulled out the win 10-9.

“After Jane eliminated me from Veteran 50, Ted told me I just needed to improve my game 10% to win the next time. He was right,” Chaz said.

Chaz’s performance makes her one of the front-runners this year to represent the US at

Effective: 03:09 PST on 01-16-2012
Expires: 15:45 PST on 01-16-2012

...FREEZING TEMPERATURES TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING...

.COLDER AIR MOVING DOWN FROM THE WEST COAST OF CANADA WILL MOVE
INTO CALIFORNIA BEHIND THE WEAK COLD FRONT TODAY. CLEAR SKIES
TONIGHT ALONG WITH A COLD AIR MASS OVER THE AREA WILL BRING BELOW
FREEZING TEMPERATURES FOR 6 TO 12 HOURS TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY

Dean Carter, owner of Carter's Carpet Restoration, shows off one of the company's newest cleaning machines - the RX-20 Rotary Jet Extractor.

Jewelry maker Stuard Hartman inspects a jade Olivia Stuard lariat necklace as he readies himself for this year's California Strawberry Festival .

El Dorado County Sheriff's deputies responded to the 500 block of Sunlight Drive in Diamond Springs for a reported animal cruelty report.

EDC leads Lahontan-issued stormwater permit Appeal to state
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Cat believed shot with crossbow recovering  -- El Dorado County officials are still seeking a suspect who shot a pet cat with what is suspected to have been a crossbow
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Helping Hands helps EID customers
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Women's Fund El Dorado presents 2012 Community Needs Forum
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FS: PONY EXPRESS COURIER newspaper DECEMBER 1937 -- The laugh of Tiburcio, Wells Fargo hold ups, Famous skull of Calaveras, History of Pacheco , A picture of the Western Empire Gets Made, advertisements from companies in Placerville/CA, Ione/CA, Shingle/CA,...
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Transportation Commission appoints Sharon Scherzinger new executive director
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10 arrested in lighter than usual Stateline crowd
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Rose Ski Tahoe facelift includes bridge over Highway 431
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California flood control plan will cost up to $17B
http://goo.gl/bFyPo

Verizon Wireless rescinds $2 bill payment fee -- “The company made the decision in response to customer feedback about the plan"
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Judge puts California greenhouse gas rule on hold
http://goo.gl/CX85Q

Task force aims at state’s underground businesses
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Federal Reserve Secretly Bails Out European Banks Again
http://goo.gl/dciLH

El Dorado County Animal Services Taz, a young male cat in Diamond Springs, was shot in one ear and the head with what appeared to be a crossbow bolt that did not penetrate its skull.

El Dorado County Sheriff's Lt. Bryan Golmitz says the wounded cat was found on Dec.

El Dorado County officials are still seeking a suspect who shot a pet cat with what is suspected to have been a crossbow.

A cat was found with a crossbow bolt in its head in Diamond Springs, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office.

...CHANGE IN THE WEATHER OVER INTERIOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TODAY...

AFTER A PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER OVER INTERIOR NORTHERN
CALIFORNIA...AT LEAST PORTIONS OF THE NORTH STATE WILL SEE SOME
RAIN...MOUNTAIN SNOW AND WINDY CONDITIONS TODAY.
MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION WILL FALL NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 80
CORRIDOR AS THE TAIL END OF A FRONTAL BAND MOVING THROUGH THE

New Indian clinic cares for poor nontribal patients -- The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians has opened a $13.6 million community clinic near the Red Hawk Casino in Placerville to serve tribal members, casino employees and other El Dorado County residents
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/print-edition/2011/12/09/Indian-cl...

Regulators Crack Down on Micro-Dairies, But Small Farmers Fight Back With Local Food Sovereignty Ordinances
http://www.alternet.org/rights/153371/regulators_crack_down_on_micro-dai...

Food Bank of El Dorado County announces Holiday Outreach 2011
http://www.prpond.com/51/food-bank-el-dorado-county-announces-holiday-ou...

Audit of Wireless Carriers -- Is Placerville to follow Sac in collection?
www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2011/12/08/city-plans-audit-of-wirel...

Need a Miniature Donkey?
http://sacramento.ebayclassifieds.com/livestock/placerville/miniature-do...

Knitted caps for tiny heads - a half-dozen women gathered to contribute knitted or crocheted caps for newborns, a movement that had begun four years earlier in El Dorado Hills
http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20111207/NEWS01/712079907

GOP consultant Beth Miller is launching her own firm
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/12/gop-consultant-beth-m...

Rightsizing Local Government
Local Governments - Exclusive — 09 December 2011

Two important power shifts are taking place in California -- Power is shifting up from the cities and down from State to county government
http://www.publicceo.com/2011/12/rightsizing-local-government/

EVENTS

EDAC Regulatory Reform meeting
8:00 am
http://eventsreport.com/event/edac-regulatory-reform-meeting-5

Pollock Pines Community Church’s Road to Bethlehem
6:00 pm
http://eventsreport.com/event/pollock-pines-community-church%E2%80%99s-r...

Food Bank of El Dorado County has announced details for its 2011 Holiday Outreach event. This annual outreach provides the fresh resources for a complete holiday meal to over one thousand families from right here in El Dorado County who may otherwise go without during the holiday season.

Fatima Hernandez, 14, of Placerville , left, looks at toys on the shelves, trying to decide which one to buy for her little brother at the Big Brothers Big Sisters shopping event at Target in El Dorado Hills Saturday.

Gold Country artist Robert Sandidge will judge the upcoming Placerville Arts Association Fall Membership Show which opens Monday, Nov.

Although former Diamond Springs resident Ann Tracy moved back to her childhood stomping grounds in Portland Maine this past May, local folks will see some of her latest work at Lumens, 2028 K St. beginning Saturday, Nov. 12, from 6 to 9 p.m. and continuing throughout the month.