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Sonora High students help make valentines for homebound residents
The Aronos Research Club joined forces with California Scholarship Federation students at Sonora High School on Jan. 30 to ...
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Sonora Elementary speech therapist accused of misdemeanor child abuse, battery
A 50-year-old speech therapist at Sonora Elementary School has been arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor child abuse and ...
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Trump’s Education Department to investigate San Jose State over transgender volleyball player
The U.S. Department of Education will investigate San Jose State for Title IX violations over “the mistreatment of female ...
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Tuolumne County Animal Control touts new spay-neuter facility for stray cats, dogs
Tuolumne County Animal Control has a new $65,000 spay and neuter surgery facility for stray cats and dogs, which will help ...
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On Nutrition: Understanding vitamin C
One regret I have is not being able to meet Linus Pauling, the biochemist best known in nutrition circles for his views on vitamin C. In the last years of his life, he resided just down the road ...
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So much food wasted every year. ‘Mom’ wants you to cut it out
Jenny Kedward likes to joke she’s “Hennepin County’s mom” because she’s on a mission to get residents to clean their plates. For Kedward, the Minnesota county’s food waste prevention ...
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FAA releases initial report on Thursday plane crash near Columbia Airport
The single-engine Cessna 172 airplane that crashed with a pilot and passenger on board south of Columbia Airport on Thursday came to rest vertically in a densely wooded area, Tuolumne County Fire ...
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Witness describes plane crash Thursday afternoon near Columbia Airport
A single-engine Cessna 172 airplane with two people on board crashed near a ranch home south of Columbia Airport about 3:15 p.m. Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration told The Union Democrat.
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Membership-based family center planned at Mother Lode schoolhouse that dates to 1800s
New owners have purchased one of the Mother Lode’s oldest post-Gold Rush era schoolhouses, known in the past as Poverty Hill School and Stent Grammar School, where they plan to open a family ...
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Contention windows closed? How the 49ers, Warriors, Stanford women and SF Giants have fallen and could climb back
A sports dynasty is in the eye of the beholder. It demands championships and a sustained period of excellence, although it’s up for debate as to how many years a dynasty requires or how many ...
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Blue Zones Project Tuolumne County touts new bicycle racks
In an effort to urge more people to ride bicycles, the community wellness organization Blue Zones Project Tuolumne County delivered new bike racks to Indigeny Reserve, Sonora Elementary School ...
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‘We are devastated’: Members of US Figure Skating community were on Wichita plane in crash
Several coaches and skaters with the United States' figure skating team were on the flight from Wichita to Washington, D.C., that crashed Wednesday night, according to U.S. Figure Skating.