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I make it a habit of checking out the police blotter or “News of Record” pretty regularly on the Union Democrat. Most of the crimes reported for Tuolumne County tend toward the rather mundane side of news.

Due to the sheer number of empty vacation homes, we usually see more break-ins than most communities. Tuolumne County is experiencing many of the issues that go along with a depressed community, mainly drug addiction and alcohol problems and all that entails.

Mountain Liquors

What you won’t find here are muggings, rapes, murders and certainly not robbery, well at least until Thursday evening, when a lone robber entered the Fashion Bug demanding money from two frightened female employees. [Read the news account of the incident…]

What they failed to mention in the report is that the Fashion Bug is located just three doors down from the local “Community Service Center” (read: Police Station), which is housed in the Junction Shopping Center. Now that takes some big ones. Wouldn’t a smart robber have picked something a little closer to the entrance of the Junction Shopping Center? The Fashion Bug is located way back in the corner, just about as close as you can get to the police center.

Then on Friday, Mountain Liquors, in the Twain Harte Shopping Center, was robbed by what police believe to be the same man. Mountain Liquors was robbed in the same fashion and around the same time of day as the Fashion Bug. [Read the news account of the incident…]

The robber has been described as “a Caucasian male standing six feet two inches tall and weighing 150 pounds. He was wearing blue jeans, a blue or black hoodie sweatshirt, the bandanna and dark wire rim copper colored glasses,” during the Fashion Bug robbery.

Apparently the crook isn’t hurting for clothing. In the Mountain Liquors robbery witnesses said he was wearing a green hoodie sweatshirt and black turtleneck sweater. Police believe this may be the same man that robbed the Lake Ridge Inn last week and the Fashion Bug in the Junction Shopping Center Thursday evening.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to contact the Sheriff’s Office immediately at (209) 533-5815. Your call can remain anonymous.

Apparently, the man isn’t that familiar with Twain Harte, where the police can be found patroling Twain Harte quite frequently — especially on the weekend when vacationers like to let their hair down and party at the local pubs.

Who Let the Dogs Out... in Twain Harte?

If you are looking for something fun for the entire family,  head on up to Twain Harte Saturday, April 24th, 2010. From 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. for a fun-filled Family Day complete with a parade.

Bring the family dog, too! Sorry, but the dogs took a vote — no cats allowed. Dogs rule! Cats Drool!

The Twain Harte Business Association & Soroptomists International of Twain Harte presents, “Who Let the Dogs Out… in Twain Harte???”

Organizers have ordered lots of warm air and sunshine for the occasion. The fun begins at 11:00 a.m., participants with their canine companions will trot through downtown Twain Harte at noon (participants are requested to donate $5.00 proceeds to benefit the Humane Society of Tuolumne County.

Additional activities include:

• American Kennel Club Agility Course
• Obedience Training Demonstrations
• Music 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.
• Human Howling Contests
• Dog Contests
• Humane Society Petting Area
• Adopt-a-Pet Booth
• Earth Day Booth
• Meet local Therapy Dogs in person
• Fun Booths – all day
• Hot DOGS and Food Vendors

Please note: All dogs must be on a leash. Aggressive dogs must be muzzled.
BYODWB (Bring your own doggie waste bags.)

For more details call: (209) 352-6267

Print a flyer – be sure to share one with a friend:
Who Let the Dogs Out… in Twain Harte???

Most of you will recall that spring officially began on March 20th. While the calendar might say spring — someone forgot to share that information with Mother Nature.

Image by Zack

I am beginning to believe that the Winter of 2010, could well end up being remembered as the winter that wouldn’t end.

My husband was right on the money, when he predicted the snow would begin falling Sunday evening — it started coming down hard around 5:30 p.m. and continued to fall hard until around 8 p.m. or so. We had several inches of accumulation. I was fully expecting to wake up to a blanket of the white stuff covering the ground.

Not so. It was pouring rain this morning and continued to rain down buckets, until right about 2:00 p.m. today, when the snow started falling like there was no tomorrow. In fact, in the last half hour, we’ve had over an inch of snow fall and hasn’t shown any signs of letting up anytime soon.

I can’t help but laugh. We thought we were being so clever timing our pellet usage for our pellet stove, so that it would run out in perfect time for warmer weather and we wouldn’t have any bags laying around all summer. That didn’t work out so well for us, we ended up driving into town last night to pick up a few more bags. We are expecting snow all week long.

I think this winter could run right through until fall if this keeps up, then start all over again. So much for global warming, we don’t have any signs of it here in the Motherlode. The snow plow just ran through…again. I’ll try to snap up a few pictures for the site.

I just love the snow! It doesn’t show, does it?