By Jerry Whitehead III

John Slaton stands in front of his three motocross bikes at his home in Tuolumne. John’s racing career, although relatively young, already has some outstanding highlights. Photo by Jerry Whitehead III.
By Jerry Whitehead III
If you walk into the Slaton family’s home in Tuolumne and take one look around the kitchen and living […]

By Thomas Atkins

The 86 feet tall Bennett Juniper near Eagle Meadows is America’s largest, and it’s the seasonal job of Ken Brunges to care for it. Photo by Thomas Atkins.
Tucked away in a remote mountain region of the Stanislaus National Forest stands a Western Juniper tree unrivaled in size and beauty by any other Juniper […]

By Wayne Kirkbride

A misplaced “Reading the SMT” picture? Not quite. Horace Greeley is most likely reading an issue of his own paper, the New York Tribune, of which he was the editor of from 1841 to 1872, the year of his death. The veracity of Greeley’s coining of the phrases “bull” and “bear” stock markets […]

We need a new jail and not a monument to bureaucracy!
We need a new jail, not another political charade that embarrasses Tuolumne County at taxpayer expense.
The County Administrator’s proposal for a “Law and Justice,” presented to the Board of Supervisors on Sept. 25, 2007, is not a product of open and honest government. This plan […]

By Jerry Whitehead III
Despite our best efforts, mistakes occasionally make it into the final, printed version of the Sierra Mountain Times. Usually, a very brief, 20-40 word explanation is sufficient to identify the error, make the necessary correction and move on.
But the error in my story about the Vial of Life program currently being run […]