Alex MacLean / Union Democrat Sonora City Council members (from left) Matt Hawkins, Mark Plummer, Jim Garaventa, Colette Such and Connie Williams voted 5-0 in closed session Monday afternoon to initiate a lawsuit against the California Bureau of Cannabis Control over new state regulations that take away the ability of cities and counties to ban delivery sales of the drug within their jurisdictions.
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Alex MacLean / Union Democrat The Sonora City Council hears from Deputy City Attorney Nubia Goldstein about new state regulations that prevent cities and counties from banning delivery sales of cannabis.
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Alex MacLean / Union Democrat (From left) Elliott Vander Kolk, of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, Bill Carlson, of Carlson Small Power Consultants, and Roy Anderson, of the Beck Group, provide an update to the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors on Monday about the status of $22 million project to build a biomass utilization facility that would be funded by a $70 million federal grant through the National Disaster Resilience Competition.
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Workers with Xfinity, a trade name for Comcast Cable Communications, which provides internet and other services in parts of the Mother Lode, try to restore service before noon Monday at a location on Snell Street across from Sonora High School. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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A worker with Xfinity, a trade name for Comcast Cable Communications, tries to restore service before noon Monday at a location on Snell Street across from Sonora High School. Forecasters say another storm is coming to the Mother Lode and the rest of the Central Sierra, Tuesday through Thursday. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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A mature, fallen oak tree has uprooted next to a water conveyance ditch below West Bonanza Road in Sonora Community Estates, and workers with a wood-chipper trailer responded before noon Monday. Another storm is expected Tuesday through Thursday, with more rain and little to no snow in Mother Lode foothill towns below 3,500-foot elevations. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Alex MacLean / Union Democrat Shoppers at Cost-U-Less in Sonora Plaza on Mono Way will start seeing new inventory stop trickling in by the end of February before the store closes its doors at the end of March.
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Alex MacLean / Union Democrat Tom Berry, manager of the Cost-U-Less in the Sonora Plaza shopping center, said some of the employees who will lose their job when the store closes at the end of March have been there for decades, including one who's been there since it opened in 1994.
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Alex MacLean / Union Democrat The loss of Cost-U-Less in the Sonora Plaza on Mono Way at the end of March will be the second major tenant to go out of business since Orchard Supply Hardware closed its doors late last year.
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Alex MacLean / Union Democrat Kelly Mel (right), owner of Donut Factory in the Sonora Plaza shopping center, performs a transaction on Friday with regular customer Bill Lane (left), of Jamestown.
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Alex MacLean / Union Democrat Pinocchio's Italian restaurant in the Sonora Plaza shopping center was busy during the lunch hour on Friday. Owner Ricky Pinocchio believes his business will still attract regular customers despite the closure of Orchard Supply Hardware late last year and impending closure of Cost-U-Less.
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Alex MacLean / Union Democrat The area in front of the former Orchard Supply Hardware, which closed late last year, was the only part of the Sonora Plaza shopping center's parking lot that had many empty spaces about noon on Monday.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat A PG&E crew from Big Sur works to reconnect service to homes in Ponderosa Hills Thursday. Many power lines were damaged by falling trees.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Sefnco Communications out of Lathrop replaces a utility pole on Black Oak Road in Sonora that was damaged by Tuesday's storm.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Sefnco Communications out of Lathrop replaces a utility pole on Black Oak Road in Sonora that was damaged by Tuesday's storm.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat A PG&E crew from Big Sur works to reconnect service to homes in Ponderosa Hills Thursday. Many power lines were damaged by falling trees.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Officers investigate a collision on Highway 49 near Shaw Flat. Another collision occurred at Highway 40 and Parrotts Ferry.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Officers investigate a collision on Highway 49 near Shaw Flat. Another collision occurred at Highway 40 and Parrotts Ferry.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Lisa Siemonsna, part owner of Wildbud Creative in Sonora, works to assemble a flower arrangement.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Typically open seven days a week, Legends Books and Antiques in downtown Sonora was locked up tight Wednesday with a "closed" sign still taped to the door from Tuesday's storm.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Owner of T.H.Jewlers in downtown Sonora, Mike Mantzouranis, uses a small torch to make silver and turquoise jewelry Wednesday morning.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Clint's Trophies and Antiques was able to get their clothing racks out Wednesday but didn't put them out on Tuesday because of the weather.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Although open on Wednesday, Runway Xchange in Sonora was closed TUesday because of the weather.
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