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The Wednesday night Main Street Farmers Market, run by El Dorado County Farm Trails, has moved to its new home on the Mooney Lot after the Placerville City Council decided it could no longer operate next to the Bell Tower.
El Dorado County sheriff ’s officials shared in a Facebook post Friday that detectives investigating the death of missing Georgetown woman Sarah Liddicoat have no information that would indicate her death involved a criminal act. The cause of Liddicoat’s death is still unclear pending autopsy findings. Liddicoat was found deceased at the bottom of a steep and wooded area June 20, according
Transplanted market settling into new location
Odin Rasco Staff writer After a series of three City Council meetings earlier this year that ultimately resulted in the relocation of the Wednesday night farmers market on Main Street in Placerville, the market is up and
running in its new location and working to set down roots. In response to a series of complaints and raised concerns regarding parking, access and impacts to adjacent business and safety for visitors, the Placerville City Council relocated the El Dorado County Farm Trails-
run market to the Mooney Lot, situated on Main Street between Empress and Hangtown Cantina. Prior to the move the market had operated in the summer months next to the Bell Tower every Wednesday evening. ■ See MARKET, page A7
SARAH LIDDICOAT to the update from the Sheriff ’s Office. The location where Liddicoat was found was not visible from her home or the air, officials note. A Search and Rescue K-9 unit ultimately found her ■ See LIDDICOAT, page A2
Portable biomass facility coming to county Grizzly Flat in the footprint of the Caldor Fire. Construction for the facility is expected to begin next June with operation beginning as soon as August 2024. According to a U.S. Department of Agriculture fact sheet, pyrolysis is the heating of an organic material, such asbiomass, in the absence of oxygen. Because no oxygen is present combustion does not occur, rather the biomass thermally decomposes into combustible gases and bio-char. Most of these combustible gases
Eric Jaramishian Staff writer A portable biomass facility is slated to come to El Dorado County next year. The Air Quality Management District permitted Gold Seal Industries, a waste-toenergy company, to construct a portable anhydrous pyrolysis facility that will convert excess biomass into liquid biofuel. The pyrolysis-capable machine is set to go in on Eldorado National Forest property near
“The facility can be moved to other counties or different locations within our county like Georgetown or anywhere the need is and where there are agreements to operate it.” — Dave Johnson, El Dorado County Air Pollution Control officer can be condensed into a combustible liquid, called pyrolysis oil (bio-oil). The biofuel Gold Seal will produce is diesel derived from biomass that can be used in vehicles that run on diesel fuel, including equipment that will support the facility.
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