Three New Emergency Satellite Call Boxes have been installed in the South Yuba River Canyon at Maybert Road, Highway 49, and Edwards river crossings, adding to the emergency communications network initiated with the call box…
Rotarian Tom Milam works on restoring the irrigation system at The Woolman Center’s organic farm in Nevada City. Last summer’s Jones Fire destroyed 19 structures at the Center, including farm buildings, fencing and irrigation.
In August 2020, the Jones Fire raged through the South Yuba River Canyon up Jones Ridge near Nevada City, devastating lands and buildings in its path. The Woolman at Sierra Friends Center campus was hit hard. The fire destroyed 19 structures including the farm buildings, fence and irrigation. Now the Center is looking to rebuild and replant under the direction of Malaika Bishop, a local farmer and stewardship associate with Sierra Harvest.
By Elias Funez | Multimedia Reporter
It was family night out at The Nevada City Film Festival Tuesday, Sept. 1, when a series of family and children’s film shorts were shown on an inflatable screen for drive-in movie goers in the parking lot of the Nevada County Fairgrounds.
Elias Funez
It’s never easy picking my top photos each year.
Over the span of a year I can shoot through thousands of frames on my camera and spend hundreds of hours more editing and weeding through the excess photos that don’t make the cut.
Being the go-to photographer for The Union is a labor of love that comes with its challenges, to say the least.