Shaun Nicholas Johnson
Jamestown, CA – Security footage from some Jamestown businesses helped investigators catch an alleged vandal.
Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to Jamestown after several callers reporting a series of vandalisms to different businesses recently. Between eyewitnesses and video surveillance, it showed a suspect throwing a rock through the window of two separate businesses and breaking a potted plant in front of another. The exact locations of where the vandalism occurred were not released by sheriff’s officials.
Deputies were able to identify the suspect as 33-year-old Shaun Nicholas Johnson of Sonora. He was spotted by a deputy on patrol walking on Stockton Street near Ponderosa Way later the same day. Johnson was arrested without i
Updated Fire in Douglas Flat area
Update at 12 p.m.: CAL Fire dispatch reports that the steep and rocky terrain is making it difficult for firefighters to get a hose line around the blaze burning in the Douglas Flat area of Calaveras County. The acreage remains between 4 and 5 acres with no structures threatened. The flames broke out in the brush along Camp Nine Road above some water tanks near Ponderosa Way, off Parrotts Ferry Road.
Camp Nine Road at Parrotts Ferry Road and the Camp Nine Bypass remain closed.
Update at 11:35 a.m.: CAL Fire reports crews are making progress on a brush fire burning along Camp Nine Road near Ponderosa Way, off Parrotts Ferry Road in the Douglas Flat area of Calaveras County as the air tankers and air attack have returned to Columbia airb
Mountain Ranch, CA A stretch of Ponderosa Way Calaveras County will get some new pavement as part of the 2021 Butte Fire Recovery Projects.
The repairs will begin Tuesday (May 18) and running through Thursday (May 20), requiring a section of Ponderosa Way in Mountain Ranch to be closed. The closure will be northwest of the intersection of Whiskey slide and West Murray Creek roads and continue northwest on Ponderosa Way.
The paving will get underway each day from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The roadway will then be reopened after that time for nighttime travel. County roads officials say due to the width of the road, traffic cannot pass through the construction zone, except emergency vehicles will be allowed.
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Calaveras, CA From April 19 to April 30, 2021, phase 1 of the roadway drainage upgrades will be taking place on Ponderosa Way. Crews will be replacing and installing new drainage culverts at several locations along the roadway. Culvert work will take place on Ponderosa Way northwest of the intersection of Whiskey Slide Road and West Murray Creek Road and continue northwest on Ponderosa Way. This is an area that was hard hit by the Butte fire, burning 70,000 acres in 2015.
Crews will be active in that area weekdays during the daylight hours from 7:00 am to 4:30 pm, there will be construction equipment on-site and due to the narrow nature of the existing roadway, drivers can anticipate delays up to 15 minutes at a time. Motorists are ur
The Burma Road is also known as the Briceburg or Bull Creek Road and immediately starts to climb along a steep road that is basically one lane wide with switchbacks that takes you up the hill. It is also called the Burma Grade. As you climb, you have incredible views of the Merced River, Briceburg, the suspension bridge, and Hwy 140. Besides hikers, high clearance 4 wheelers, motorcycles and mountain bikers also use this road. The road can have washouts, slides and deep ruts, closing it some years but when it is open, I understand you can get to Greeley Hill or Buck Meadows from Briceburg.