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THURSDA Y JULY 16, 2015
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TODAY 'S READiRBOA RD BRIEFING The City of Sonora Parking and Traffic Commission unanimously approved a recommendation to the Sonora City Downtown Sonora shoppers may Council that all two-hour parking be get anextra hour to park as part of increased to three hours on Washingthe city's plan to drive commerce to ton, Green and Stewart streets and the area. Stockton Road in downtown Sonora. By SEAN CARSON
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The recommendation will include time limits on the few downtown side streets and parking lots with a twohour limit. The commission will also recomm end adding an extra hour ofparking enforcement in the morning, increas-
ing hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The changes will not affect any sections of the streets where no parking restrictions exist. See PARKING / Back Page
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An AT &T I n t ernet outage that affected much of the San Joaquin Valley and Mother Lode Tuesday night and Wednesday, f r u s t rating residents and businesses, was the result of vandalism, company and law enforcement officials
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Angela Guissi Brown, 67, president of the Tuolumne County Historical Society (above), talks about her passion for old photographs at the Tuolumne County Museum and History Research Center. One old photograph (below left) shows the old Parrotts Ferry Bridge. The archives at the Tuolumne County Museum and History Research Center include vertical shelves that slide on horizontal tracks (below right).
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AT&T t ec h n icians worked through the day Wednesday to fixdamaged fiber optic cables that led to the outage. Service was restored incrementally — starting with 911 systems in the San Joaquin Valley, then spreading to Standard, Columbia and beyond. The damaged cable ran through a rural area south of Stockton and north of French Camp. AT&T's internal systems alerted the company to the problem about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Cross said.
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CORRECTION Astory Wednesday about a groundbreaking for Sonora Regional Medical Center's cancer center incorrectly listed the cause of death for Diana White. The story also listed an incorrect number of patients seen annually at the hospital. In 2014, it had 4,932 inpatient and 352,065 outpatient visits. Sonora Regional's emergency department sees about 36,000 patients a year.
A Sonora native who spent more than two decades teaching at Sonora High School is still teaching today, sharing her enthusiasm for old photographs and genealogy as president of the Tuolumne County Historical Society. Angela Guissi Brown, 67, was born in May 1948 in Sonora. She graduated from Sonora High with the Class
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Defense attorney seeks utility records COURT HEARING: Friday, 1:30 p.m., Calaveras County Superior Court, 400 Government Center Drive, San Andreas By TORI THOMAS The Union Democrat
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