Attention! You are being Hunted, Stalked, Captured, and Sold! Like an animal and not like some proud “King of the jungle” type animal, more like a sardine. When you go to some sites, sites that say that they offer all sorts of answers to your questions, warnings about pitfalls, all that you need
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11/16/2007
Amador County residents now have a great new option for disposing of used batteries and fluorescent tubes & bulbs.We all know how much energy can be saved by using compact fluorescent lamps instead of incandescent light-bulbs, but some of the materials in CFL's are very hazardous to people and th
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11/07/2007
For the record, NO egg-laying, poisonous, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammals from South of the equator, were hurt in this story. Ok, I should probably give a bit of background on this one, I was hanging around with a bunch of friends one night and one of them piped up that global wa
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10/24/2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDate: October 23, 2007Contact: Michael I. PulskampMain Street BrokersPhone: (209) 223-3059Cell: (916) 802-5896Email MichaelMainstreet Brokers real estate websiteAMADOR COUNTY REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONAL MICHAEL I. PULSKAMP, OF MAIN STREET BROKERS, CERTIFIED TO ADDRESS AND ENCOU
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10/23/2007
On Thursday September 20th 2007 the ’07 WEST COAST GREEN conference and expo opened at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in down-town San Francisco. This trade show focused on the greening of the residential home. From advanced SIPS construction to zero VOC coatings just about anything that coul
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09/27/2007
At least that is what Progressive Farmer magazine said in the article on the “Ten Best Rural Areas to Live in America”. I of course think that they must have missed something. But nine is good. In the article on Amador County, Jamie Cole the author, points to the wide spread of climatic regions i
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09/19/2007
The first three days of the month that we now call November were in the olden days known as the Celtic feast of Samhain. Samhain, is Gaelic for "summer's end," and it celebrates the end of the harvest. It was the most important of the ancient Celtic feasts, and it loans it’s name to the whole mo
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09/17/2007
Yes, during the days of the Gold Rush, the miners knew this town by the names of "Bedbug" and "Freezeout." But the Name Ione, believed to have been given by Thomas Brown (after one of the heroines in Edward Bulwer Lytton's drama "The Last Days of Pompeii.") finally stuck. Unlike many other commun
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09/11/2007
Some people have said that there is not much to do around Ione, Like M&M’s those people are just plain nuts! While the foothills are a bit more relaxed and laid back than some big city, we have a lot of fun and satisfying things to do around here. Today let's look at Howard Park on the outskirts
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09/11/2007