City of Placerville Community Clean-up Day Join the City of Placerville and El Dorado County Environmental Management for our annual Spring Clean Up Day! Recycle bins for the following will be provided: general recycling, yard waste, trash. Electronic items willalso be accepted -e-waste (computers, TVs, monitors). Snowline Hospice will be on-site to accept tax deductible donations of gently used items 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 345 Fair Lane Placerville, CA Free For more information contact:
With California on edge as a heat wave threatened to worsen firefighting efforts, hundreds of people north of the state capital evacuated Tuesday after a fire shifted direction.
The first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season continued to weaken Tuesday, dropping to a Category 1 storm with 85 mph winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported.
The West's fire season used to stretch from May into August or September, but now fires touch off in April or earlier, and the season sometimes stretches into October.
NBC Universal and two partners said Sunday they have reached a deal to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications Inc., ending a drawn-out process.
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