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 [...]
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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 [...]
Nevada County Narrow Gage Museum, Grass Valley, CA The need for rail service in the semi-mountainous and wooded area of Grass Valley and Nevada City was precipitated by mining operations subsequent to the California Gold Rush. In addition, timber operators wanted to make their land accessible to the Southern Pacific Company in Colfax. On March [...]
Nevada County Airport was built in 1932 by Errol McBoyle, owner of the Idaho Maryland Mine. The purpose was to fly gold to Mills Field which is now the San Francisco International Airport. In 1956, Charles Litton of Litton Industries gave the airport to Nevada County. Nevada County Air Airport covers an area of 117 [...]
Although this raid on a marijuana plot in North San Juan happened last September, I think it is still newsworthy. The producer of this film makes a good analogy of pot growing versus farmers growing tobacco. According to the video, the pot grower grossed over $1,900,000. More people die from using tobacco than any other [...]
This is a great video about our Nevada County Public library.
The good news is that sales volume picked up 7 percent. In November of 2007 to November of 2008, 839 homes had been sold. From November 2008 to November 2009 897 homes were sold, an increase of 7 percent. The average sales price in November 2008 was $395,609. In November 2009 the average sales price [...]
We’ve finally had a real snow fall in Nevada County last night and early this morning. We’ve also had the power go out in Cascade Shores, (where I live), last night for about 4 hours. I measured the amount of snowfall this morning on my back deck after it stopped snowing and it came in [...]
The Grass Valley’s Group parent company, French media technology company Thomson has breached its debt covenants and has been in talks throughout most of 2009 with creditors. Thomson now plans to ask creditors to vote on a restructuring plan on 21 December. This plan will be based on the terms agreed by many of its [...]
