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Four months after Sonora Police Department volunteer Rick Roberts' body was discovered in an auto shop he rented onMono Way in Sonora, Cheryl Lucero gave an interview with a uthorities in which she gave conflicting stories of what happened that day. "I didn't mean for things to go the way t h ey went," she said in the interview. "I just wanted to Lu c ero scare him." Video footageof Lucero's p olice i nterrogation w a s played Monday inTuolumne County S uperior C o urt, where the 46-year-old Twain
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Jacob Lucchesi, of Sonora, wakeboards Monday on Lake Tulloch, which was 95 percent full.
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Copperopolis-area businesses are hoping for a busy Labor Day weekend with the recent news that Tulloch Reservoir could remain nearly full through Sept. 7. The Tri-Dam Project, a partnership of Oakdaleand South San Joaquin irrigation districts, announced Thursday it was "optimistic" about maintaining the reservoir's normal water levelforatleastanother tw oweeks, as long as river temperatures stay cool enough for the survival of protected fish below Tulloch Dam. "Holding off for the weekend helps all businesses here," said Tammy Andrada, manager of Young's Payless IGA grocery store in Copperopolis. Tulloch Reservoir, which has a maximum capacity of about 67,000 acre-feet, remained about 95 percent full as of Monday, according to the Department of Water Resources. Don Pe-
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Tulloch Reservoir could remain nearly full through Sept. 7. dro Reservoir was about 32percent of area were angered earlier this month capacity, New Melones Reservoir was when Tri-Dam announced that up to about 12 percent and Lake McClure 30,000acre-feetcould bedrained from was about 10 percent. Businesses and homeowners in the See TULLOCH / Back Page
PUBLIC MEETING:Tuolumne Utilities District Board of Directors, 5:30 p.m. today, 18885 Nugget Blvd., Sonora. By GUY McCARTHY The Union Democrat
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More than $25 million in proposed water and wastewater projects for a draft capital improvement plan will be discussed at a meeting at 5:30 p.m.today of the Tuolumne Utilities District Board of Directors. The draft five-year plan is for 2016 to 2021 and totals more than 100 pages. It lists $18,078,543 in w ater-fund projects, including replacem ent of 39,000 linearfeet of water mains and dredging more than 300,000 cubic yards of sediment from Phoenix Lake, an 88-acre reservoir about three miles east of Sonora.
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A man sustained burns to his arm in a fire Monday that destroyed a barn and burned grasslandoffFraguero Road in Sonora. Representatives of Cal Fire and Tuolumne County Ambulance declined to give the man' s identity or the severity of his injuries. He was
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