The Argonaut Junior Mustangs junior varsity youth football team just knows how to win.

If Matt “California” Hampton of the Buster Nighthawk Fight Team keeps this up, he won’t be an underdog much longer. On Friday, September 23 at the Cage Warriors 143 mixed martial events at Humphreys by the Bay in San Diego, Hampton scored a first round submission victory over Bill Wilson of …

The Argonaut High School girls golf team at long last – figuratively speaking – slayed the dragon. On Wednesday, September 21 at Jack Tone Golf Course in Ripon, Argonaut had three players shoot sub-40 rounds over nine holes in a 152-156 victory over defending Valley Foothill League North div…

Early on in the Amador High School varsity volleyball team’s match against Calaveras on Tuesday, September 27, it kind of seemed like the match was destined to end much like every other match over the past two seasons for the Buffaloes against any Mother Lode League team that wasn’t Argonaut.

The Mother Lode League football season kicks off this Friday night, September 30 and while the results of the first half paint a picture of either Sonora or Summerville keeping the league championship in Tuolumne County for an eighth straight season, there is reason for optimism in Jackson a…

Q: I want to fish but don’t know how and there are no clinics offered in my area. Does CDFW offer any online learning opportunities?

The 2022 Society of St. Vincent De Paul Friends of the Poor Walk/Run will be hosted by St. Katharine Drexel from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, September 24. Registration/check-in from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. at St. Katharine Drexel Parish Center (11361 Prospect Drive in Jackson). Cost to register …

At the Valley Foothill League North Division mid-season tournament on Monday, September 19 at Swenson Park Golf Course in Stockton, the Argonaut High School girls golf team outshot defending league and Division V Sac-Joaquin Section champion Ripon by 24 strokes to finish in first place and t…

Local mixed martial arts fighter Matt Hampton of the Buster Nighthawk Fight Team is scheduled to be in action this Friday, September 23 in a preliminary bout at the Cage Warriors 143 event at Humphreys by the Bay in San Diego. Hampton, coming off his first win at the professional ranks on Ju…

Nominations for the Mustang/Tiger Athletic Hall of Fame are now being accepted. Many qualified individuals have played an important role in the proud history of Argonaut, Ione and Jackson high school athletics – athletes, teams, coaches and individuals from the community have all played a si…

A spirited home crowd help lift the Amador High School varsity volleyball team to a victory over Argonaut in the first of three rivalry matches scheduled for this season.

The Argonaut Junior Mustangs varsity youth football team has its first winning streak of the season. After opening the season with three straight losses, the Junior Mustangs have now won two games in a row after defeating the AMA Junior Bullfrogs 42-0 in Motherlode Valley Football League pla…

The Argonaut Junior Mustangs youth football program is off to a near-perfect start to the 2022 Motherlode Valley Football League season with the Junior Varsity, Novice and Junior Novice teams all improving to 4-0 on the season with wins over the Waterford Sabercats on Saturday, September 10 …

Local running extraordinaire Sharon Hampton of Sutter Creek competed in the St. Jude Rock ‘n’ Roll Running Series half-marathon in Bellevue, Washington on Sunday, September 4 and finished first in her age division with a time of 2 hours, 27 minutes. Hampton, now 80 years old, said she had a …

Amador High School cross country runners competed under the lights at the Kim Duyst Twilight Invitational on Saturday, September 10 in Ceres.

As the Argonaut High School varsity football team proved last year, when they opened the season with two straight losses, but closed it out as state champions, it’s not how you start, but how you finish.

Q: In response to recent warnings about avian flu in wild birds, I have taken down my bird feeders and bird baths. When is it OK to put them back out?

Two matches into the Mother Lode League season, the Argonaut High School varsity volleyball team is still seeking its first league win, but has found plenty of reason for optimism.

On Friday, September 2 in Sutter Creek, the Amador High School varsity football team was unable to cap off a homecoming night celebration with its first win of the season, falling 41-6 to the visiting Livingston Wolves.

A bounce-back performance brought Calaveras County-born mixed martial arts fighter Katarina “The Librarian” Legorreta redemption in the form of a unanimous decision victory over Atanacia Ramirez in a strawweight bout at Urijah Faber’s A1 Combat #5 event on Saturday, September 3 in Wheatland.

The early domination of the Motherlode Valley Football League’s Novice division continued for the Amador, Argonaut and Calaveras youth football teams with all three scoring wins on Saturday, September 3 and each improving to 3-0 on the season.

Amador High School Performing Arts presents the 49th annual Jug and Rose 7.7-mile Walk/Run on Saturday, September 10, starting at 7 a.m. in Volcano. Entry forms are available at the following sponsors: Black Diamond Graphics in West Point; Spinetta Family Vineyards in Shenandoah Valley; Choc…

The Ebbetts Pass Moose Lodge has once again hit a hole-in-one for Hospice of Amador & Calaveras at the third annual Dan Leary Memorial Golf Tournament, held on June 25 at Sequoia Woods Country Club in Arnold.

Nominations for the Mustang/Tiger Athletic Hall of Fame are now being accepted. Many qualified individuals have played an important role in the proud history of Argonaut, Ione and Jackson High School athletics – athletes, teams, coaches and individuals from the community have all played a si…

On Friday, August 26 in Sutter Creek, the Amador High School varsity football team took a 7-0 lead over Ceres in the first quarter, but the visiting Bulldogs responded with 29 unanswered points to take control of the game and an eventual 36-15 victory.

Coming off a close loss in the opening week of the Motherlode Valley Football League season, the Amador Junior Buffalos varsity youth football team bounced back with its first win of the season, beating the Hughson Huskies 12-0 on Saturday, August 27 at Hughson High School.

Congratulations to the Calaveras Crushers for winning a silver medal at the Special Olympics of Northern California softball regionals on August 21 at Foskett Regional Park in Lincoln.

Ajay Jarrett, a 14-year-old from Sutter Creek, is one of the top young trap shooters in the country and after this summer, he has the titles to prove it.

The Argonaut High School girls golf team continued its hot start to the season this week in advance of a key Valley Foothill League North showdown against defending champion Ripon next week.

Local mixed martial arts fighter Katarina “The Librarian” Legorreta will return to action at the Urijah Faber’s A1 Combat #5 event this Saturday, September 3 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Sacramento in Wheatland. Legorreta (2-2) will take on Atanacia Ramirez (2-1) in an amateur strawweig…

Q: Is the monarch butterfly now listed as endangered?

On Friday, August 19 in Stockton, the Calaveras High School varsity football team jumped out to a 7-0 lead over host McNair just more than a minute into the game, but was outscored 21-0 the rest of the way in a 21-7 season-opening road loss to the Eagles.

On Friday, August 19 in Minden, Nevada, the Argonaut High School varsity football team's first game of the new season - a 20-0 loss to the Douglas Tigers - came with a lot of the mistakes characteristic of a first game like penalties, turnovers and mistakes in execution, but it wasn’t for a …

The Amador High School varsity football team didn’t emerge from the first game of the 2022 season with a victory, but it did come away with plenty of optimism.

From the green of the grass, to the yellow of the soccer balls, to the many different uniform designs - not to mention some red faces due to the heat - it was certainly a colorful day when the Mother Lode Youth Soccer League officially kicked off its 2022 fall rec season on Saturday, August …

On the opening day of the Motherlode Valley Football League season, the Argonaut Junior Mustangs JV youth football team made up for a slow start with a strong finish, beating the Escalon Cougars 19-7 on Saturday, August 20 at Escalon High School.

Coming off of a season that featured its best finish yet in league competition, the Argonaut High School girls golf team showed in the first match of the 2022 season that it has no intention of dropping off.

The back and forth between the top two men’s slowpitch softball teams in Amador County over the past decade has swung back in favor of M&M Door.

A new year of high school sports is set to begin this weekend with participation numbers both locally and across the state starting to climb back to levels they were at prior to the disruption of sports caused by the COVID-19 pandemic during the final months of the 2019-20 school year.

The Argonaut Junior Mustangs Junior Novice youth football team participated in a preseason Jamboree with El Dorado, Sonora and Calaveras on Saturday, August 13 at Calaveras High School in San Andreas. It was a good start for the Junior Mustangs on the day and overall as Case Cazadd had a tou…

The 2021 season concluded on opposite ends of the spectrum for the Amador and Argonaut varsity high school football teams, but both get set to kick off the 2022 season with equal amounts of optimism and uncertainty.

Q: Are recreational crab traps allowed to be fished once Dungeness crab season ends?

The Mother Lode Youth Soccer League held its annual camp on Saturday, August 5 and Sunday, August 6 at Howard Park in Ione with more than 100 campers attending and fine-tuning their skills in advance of the start of the fall 2022 recreation season, which officially opens on Saturday, August 20.

Just a few months ago, Nick Kohring was sitting in a cell in a state prison. But on Sunday, July 31, the Valley Springs native was fighting in the co-Main Event in one of the biggest mixed martial arts shows in California.

A pair of local youth anglers teamed up for a top-five finish on a national stage earlier this summer.

The Amador County Recreation Agency Men’s Slowpitch Softball League regular season concluded on Wednesday night, August 10 in Pioneer with the Warriors defeating Roaring Camp 22-14 to claim the top seed in the upcoming league playoffs.

USA Shooting, the Olympic arm for shooting sports, held its national championship in International Trap at the John Halter Shooting Facility in Hillsdale, Michigan from July 21 to July 24. Attending the match was USA Shooting team member Aeriel Skinner from Jackson with her coach Rich Lynch …

Even the greatest postseason run any Amador County Little League team has ever been on had to end at some point.