New project will ensure third-graders are reading at grade level SACRAMENTO — As regional graduation rates continue to decline, the Boys & Girls Club of El Dorado County Western Slope, New Morning Youth and Family Services in Placerville, United Way California Capital Region and other partners have launched United Way’s STAR Readers Project. The project [...]
The five main gates of Folsom Dam poured water downriver on the American over the weekend. The dam provides drainage for about 1,875 square miles. The California Department of Water Resources reported the lake elevation on March 26 was 433.54 ft. Lake elevation has been held to between 428 and 441 feet for the past [...]
“Painting Where the Wild Things Are,” an open juried art show at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center benefiting the Effie Yeaw Nature Center, is scheduled April 26 through May 14. Regional artists will submit paintings of the American River Parkway and the wild things that live there. Juror is Pat Mahony. Entry Days for this [...]
Freshman baseball The Oak Ridge Trojans Baseball team won the March 22 Conference game against the Casa Roble Rams, 10-0. Swimming Ponderosa boys and girls forfeited the match against the Trojans on March 23. Lacrosse The boy’s junior varsity team won the March 25 non-Conference game against the Northgate Broncos, 12-4. The girl’s varsity team [...]
Athletes endured cool and wet conditions at the Stanford Invitational March 25 and 26 but that didn’t stop Oak Ridge track and field from performing well. Will Findlay’s placed first in the high jump with a jump of 6’4.75′. He will attend Stanford University this fall and will compete for the track team. The other [...]
Brenda Nelson, El Dorado Hills “Do unto others as they would do unto you. Live one day at a time, moment by moment.” Brittney Lomascold, Orangevale “Do what you love. Don’t lie to yourself. Don’t try to keep up with the Joneses.” Dave Pajouhesh, El Dorado Hills “Be happy with what you have. Family first. [...]
It was sunny and warm inside Oak Meadow Elementary’s gymnasium Friday afternoon, despite the dismal weather outside, where 300 people packed the house for the first Heritage Festival. Event organizer and Oak Meadow parent Cigdem Askin envisioned holding such an event since her fifth-grader first started school back in kindergarten, but with three younger children [...]
