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County leaders in a ‘TIF’ over developer fees Eric Jaramishian Staff writer Mountain Democrat photo by Isaac Streeter
Colleen Brown of Valley Springs gets a smile from her horse Vino after arriving in Pollock Pines Friday on the Highway 50 Association Wagon Train’s 74th trek over the Sierra. Vino’s grin brought out even more smiles on youngsters’ faces as they greeted the Wagon Train for a day of festivities at the Pollock Pines-Camino Community Center.
Smiles for miles Hundreds visited Main Street in Placerville Saturday to get a look at the Highway 50 Association Wagon Train as it came into town. The Bell Tower was the penultimate stop for the week-long trip, which began in Round Hill, Nev., and ended near Placerville Cinemas on Placerville Drive. The first Highway 50 wagon train made the 65-mile trek in 1949 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Gold Rush and it's been coming around the mountain every year (except 1950 and 2020) since. Mountain Democrat photos by Odin Rasco
The wagon train made a 15-minute stop at the Bell Tower in Placerville.
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El Dorado County is possibly losing out on collecting millions of dollars from developers — funds that could have been used for much-needed road improvements. Auditor-Controller Joe Harn made the revelation at the June 6 Board of Supervisors meeting, using the relation between housing developments on Bass Lake Road up Hollow Oak Drive and worsening n See Developer fees, page A7
Yusuf pretrial set for August Odin Rasco Staff writer Following a string of court dates a pretrial hearing of the second-degree murder case involving a Shingle Springs woman’s overdoserelated death was set Friday morning in El Dorado County Superior Court’s Department 1. Kamaal Yusuf, 22, stands accused of selling counterfeit pills containing fentanyl that led to the 2022 death of the unidentified victim. Yusuf, who was arrested in January at his parent’s Elk Grove Lakeside community home, is also charged with distributing a controlled substance to minors as there may have been additional victims younger than the age of 18, according to El Dorado County sheriff ’s Sgt. Alexander Sorey. Yusuf has pleaded not guilty to all charges. The pretrial in the People v. Yusuf case has been slated for Tuesday, Aug. 1, at 8:30 a.m., again in Dept. 1. Yusuf ’s attorney Patrick Hanly told Judge Vicki Ashworth he estimated the pretrial would take a full court day to get through. A reason for the previous delays in setting a date, according to Hanly, is the matter of medical records that he had subpoenaed twice; the documents were finally turned over during Friday’s proceedings.
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