Note: if you cannot view this video, you need Click here to download Adobe Flash Nevada County Airport is home base to over 140 aircraft with over 30,000 take-offs and landings occurring each year. Nevada County Airport was built in 1932 by Errol McBoyle, owner of the Idaho Maryland Mine, to fly gold to Mills [...]
The median home price of an existing, single-family home in California rose 1.2 percent compared with July and 8.6 percent from a year ago, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) reported this week. Following two months of consecutive month-over-month declines, California home sales edged up 1.8 percent in August compared with July, but were down [...]
This is a video prepared for the California Preservation Foundation and was also a history project. Brief History: The Empire Mine was the richest hard-rock mine in the State of California producing 5.8 million ounces of gold in its operating history of 106 years (1850-1956). George Roberts, the original discoverer of the gold soon sold [...]
Martin Sexton is coming to our local Center for The Arts in Grass Valley this coming weekend, October 1, 2010. Tickets are $30 for information they are located at 314 West Main Street, Grass Valley, California 95945, telephone 530-274-8384. Box Office hours: Noon to 5:00PM, Wednesday through Saturday Martin Sexton is one of the most [...]
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Lumberjack Shows, Clogging Jamboree, Western Music Fest, Art at the Classic are all part of Draft Horse Classic and Harvest Fair Visitors to this weekend’s Draft Horse Classic and Harvest Fair will get the chance to see world class wood-chopping lumberjacks, axe throwers, wielders of mighty chain saws, and the opportunity to see competitor Melvin [...]
I hear a lot about “Obama Care” and how we should not have socialized medical care. Interesting that we would prefer to have the majority of people in this country un-insured, and than trusting our health to insurance companies who are in the business to make as much money as possible and try to deny [...]
If the walks could talk, the stories would be as riveting as your favorite Grateful Dead song to say the least! This single-family residence located in Northern California’s Marin County is the same house that Grateful Dead bandleader Jerry Garcia owned at the time of his death in 1995. The Mediterranean-style house has more than [...]
By Charles Schmidt: (Charles Schmidt is a local Nevada County furniture maker) I probably started getting a feel for putting rustic furniture together from growing up in Montana, living and working on ranches and farms that were quite poor; and quite pioneer in lifestyle, where we built what we needed; often with hatchet, hammer and [...]
Dates: Thursday, September 23 – Sunday, September 26, 2010 Where: Nevada County Fairgrounds 11228 McCourtney Road Grass Valley, CA 95949 Time: Draft Horse Performances: Thursday, September 23 6:30 pm Friday, September 24 6:30 pm Saturday, September 25 10 am Saturday, September 25 6:30 pm Sunday, September 26 10 am Sunday, September 26 4 pm Harvest [...]
