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neighboring Placer County Dawn Hodson Staff writer While there is a great deal of attention being paid to the outbreak of the coronavirus “It’s important (COVID-19), El Dorado to keep in County Health mind that officials and its agency partners while the want residents situation is to know that while they are evolving, monitoring the the risk outbreak of this throughout new virus, there are presently no the U.S. is known cases in currently low.” this county and the risk to U.S. — Nancy Williams, citizens is low. El Dorado County As of March health officer 3 there was a total of 43 positive cases in California, 24 from repatriation flights, according n
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El Dorado High School senior midfielder Sawyer Radekin leads the Cougar squad off the field as the overtime clock ran out to seal Saturday’s Division IV Sac-Joaquin Section championship over Natomas High School.
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Dylan Svoboda Staff writer The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors gave the go-ahead Feb. 25 to a hotly contested housing project in north El Dorado Hills. Dubbed the Vineyards at El Dorado Hills, the project proposes 42, 1-acre residential lots to the 114-acre site north of Malcolm Dixon Road and east of Salmon Falls Road. The developer has an existing entitlement on the property called Diamante Estates, approved in 2009, that called for a gated community of 19, 5-acre-plus lots in the area. The new application requested a density bonus and a rezone to add a planned development overlay zone to the underlying RE-5 zoning. After discussion the rezone was approved, 3-2. More than half the project, 65 acres, consists of open space. The developer plans on maintaining the oak woodlands, schoolhouse and pond currently on the property. The site would also feature 25 acres of vineyards. Citing gridlock on neighboring Green Valley Road and dangerous conditions on adjacent side streets, many area residents firmly opposed the project. n
verything nearly crumbled for El Dorado High School boys soccer when a player was given a red card near the end of regulation in the Division IV Sac-Joaquin Section finals against Natomas High School Saturday at Whitney High School. With the score tied 2-2, the teams would play 20 minutes of overtime and if the game was still
deadlocked, the match would be decided by penalty kicks. Due to the red card, El Dorado was forced to play with one less player on
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ak Ridge arrived for its Division 1 Sac-Joaquin Section championship game as the No. 3 seed and as a heavy favorite on paper. But when the game is a rivalry game, as it was against Folsom, a 12-seed, odds and rankings get thrown out the window. The two schools separated by a small section of Highway 50 met at Whitney High School for their third battle of the year. The first two times the teams met, Oak Ridge narrowly won each game … this time they also
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The Oak Ridge High School girls soccer team celebrates after winning the Division 1 Sac-Joaquin Section championship over Folsom, 2-0.
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El Dorado junior Jorge Talavera hugs head coach Steve Beck after his team won the Divison IV Sac-Joaquin Section finals Saturday.
(doubt),” said senior Angus Cummings, who scored both of El Dorado’s goals. “We were trying to get to penalty kicks but the opportunity presented itself with our own penalty kick and so we had to capitalize.” With five minutes left in overtime, El Dorado senior Aiden Beck was fouled inside the box and earned his own penalty kick. Just 10 yards stood between El Dorado going up a goal with about five minutes remaining in the section championship. Beck sunk it past the Natomas goalie to put the Cougars up 3-2. “I was just thinking, there is no way he doesn’t make
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