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Clubhouse, pool, tennis & more 4975 Del Mar Drive, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 916-304-9711 | Lennar.com/Sacramento Pursuant to the Fair Housing Act, this housing is intended for occupancy by at least one person 55 years of age or older per home. Plans to build out this neighborhood as proposed are subject to change without notice. Features, amenities, floor plans, elevations, and designs vary and are subject to changes or substitution without notice. Items shown may contain options that are not standard on all models or not included in the purchase price. Availability may vary. Prices do not include closing costs and other fees to be paid by buyer (including a builder fee as described in the purchase agreement) and are subject to change without notice. This is not an offer in states where prior registration is required. Void where prohibited by law. Copyright © 2022 Lennar Corporation. Lennar and the Lennar logo are U.S. registered service marks or service marks of Lennar Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. Lennar Sales Corp., CA DRE Broker #01252753 (Responsible Broker: Joanna Duke). BMR Construction, Inc., CA CSLB #830955. CalAtlantic Group, Inc., CA CSLB #1037780. Lennar Homes of California, Inc., CA CSLB #728102. Date 09/22
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16-year-old killed in hit and run Odin Rasco Staff writer Law enforcement is on the lookout for a white 2018-22 Honda Accord after a 16-year-old boy from Pilot Hill died from injuries sustained in a hit and run on Highway 50 early Monday. California Highway Patrol officers received a call at 3 a.m. Monday reporting a pedestrian on Highway 50 west of El Dorado Road between Placerville and Shingle Springs, according to CHP documents. Officers arrived to the area and located a young man in the center median
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Pony Express re-riders hop from their horses and prepare to pass off the mochila — a square leather saddle cover made to hold mail — to the next rider ready and waiting at the El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce in Placerville at 12:35 a.m. Thursday. The riders hurried down the hill from the Diamond Springs post office hoping to make up for lost time, but in true USPS fashion, the mail was delivered behind schedule. The annual Pony Express re-ride travels from Old Sacramento to Missouri, relaying the mochila every 1-5 miles day and night over 10 days.
Placerville bridging ‘tech gap’ wiring, the more to Steve ■ City residents according the copper heats up, McCargar, a senior gradually impacting the management analyst asked to take brought on by the city to efficiency of the signal. oversee the broadband Fiber optic cables are broadband project. bundles of glass or survey “When you look at plastic strands as thin Odin Rasco Staff writer
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Placerville city leaders have begun to lay the groundwork for fiber optic internet service that could provide residents with super-fast connections to the web for a fraction of the price they pay for service today. As modern life continues to rely more heavily on internet connectivity — from smartphones and computers to netconnected fridges and doorbells — the need for a more robust network makes itself apparent,
what’s happening in the world today, particularly post-COVID, I think a lot of people understand and realize the importance of connectivity,” McCargar explained. “We are going into this time where more and more people are working from home and more services are sucking up more bandwidth. The capacity of cable is extremely limited in relation to fiber optic, which has almost no limit to its capabilities.” Fiber optic internet’s competitive edge in speed and reliability comes down to physics — as more electrical signals travel through traditional copper
as a human hair that infrared light passes through in a kind of digital Morse code at speeds nearing the speed of light. Utilizing a $500,000 Local Area Technical Assistance grant from the state, city engineers and outside consultants have recently completed plans that lay out a potential map for routing the fiber that would allow for connection to every residence and business in the city. The next step, according to McCargar, is the “shovel-ready” plan, which entails getting feet on the ground and checking for potential hurdles to the map,
such as trees or roots in the way and planning how to pass along bridges. Once plans are completed, city officials will be equipped with the information they need to determine equipment needs and costs associated with laying the 167 miles of fiber it will take to bring broadband to the city. The city has been preparing for broadband for some time by pre-installing junctions whenever the city takes on road maintenance projects, according to McCargar. Another junction is set to go into the ground soon, as the city will soon begin work to repair Broadway and add additional sidewalks. “For years now the city, anytime they’re doing any type of work
Isaac Streeter Staff writer Cameron Park Community Services District General manager André Pichly recently announced he would step down after a year and a half of service in the role. Pichly cited a number of reasons for his decision to leave, including his eligibility for retirement as well as expecting his granddaughter’s birth in the coming weeks. Most importantly, Pichly said, was his struggle to balance family life, maintaining his health, his work for the CSD and
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