blue jeans fall ones and women and man's new and used clothing we have a little of everything seating outside in the front and back white fire elbel and white music at certain times scofield walks relocked and smiling down trees street and read a county fair he waves and calls out to nearly everyone by name this week marks the last fare under school feels direction as a chief executive officer for is both a celebration of years of hard work preparing for the event and community goodbye party for the sixty three year old fair leader this is been my life for twenty six years so yeah there's a lot of emotions that go with that school fields at thursday thursday is running for district two seed for the county supervisor which represents south county and widened over the town to fair deputy manager sandy woods at the end of the year thursday mornings goldfield was found making his normal round stopping to chat with longtime draft horsemen nolan grew up in grass valley and applied to the fairgrounds management position when he was thirty seven after operating a hardware store in san jose beyond preparing for the week long fair the position requires handling dozens of events throughout the year including music in the mountains gods or the annual father's day blue grass festival world fast and numerous other activities held in the main building every weekend used as fresh lee proud of the drafters classic in the country christmas fair count oh no it is country community supported fairgrounds find shelter locations make it one of the most sought after county fairs in northern california school field added were the big dog in northern california yesterday was a great example it was just hopping here the energy was something else the fair has changed over the times and while maintaining its roots in the local agriculture the fair has adopted newer technologies such as online registration something edgers boost sales i'm not the it guy but here we're recognized you've got to get with it or you're going to be left behind scofield said of the nine motherlode county fairs nevada county is the only one to tie into an online blog text message can petitions and digital photography exhibits and also popular fair go among preferred was well traditional favorites include preserves baking goods and corners pastry contras contests remained nevada county has lots of people still cherish that tradition this year's fair had ten thousand four hundred contest eateries here this year is credit card machine alone fairgoers to purchase tickets with the card it's not twenty five cent ferret anymore it cost some dollars while admission and the game went up a dollar this year presale tickets were offered at half price triggering a boom in sales a time when economy is forcing people to seek out discounts last year presale tickets totaled twenty three thousand five hundred fifty compared to more than fifty one thousand this year are pre sale numbers have been out of sight we have double lines at one point out at mcchord in a road that recorded thirteen thousand four hundred ninety one people bought tickets at the gate the first day of the fair but it is i don't know how many attended with tickets they bought in advance based on the crowds last night duty been better than last year's call feel bad during the past decade attended to has declined as children grow up and leave the area enrollment at area schools drops weeks before the fair begins is not uncommon for the fair staff to put in seven days a week working into the evening hours to get to be careful you're not burned out by opening care week means days that started at seven a m and long after midnight schofield recalls disasters such as broken want to lines that flooded the arena more than once he has spent the night in the fair office you live and breathe it he said there's nothing else that's what i'm going to miss the third district california court of appeals in sacramento has in effect rejected an appeal from the attorneys of fred engle who was convicted in two thousand and six for attempting murder attempting murder on a this is not a final ruling or staff member of the court of appeals said it's a tentative really because the appellate can file a request for a petition for a rehearing and this court or he can file a petition for reviewing the case in a supreme court the tentative ruling was filed wednesday the source said angle was sentenced to life in prison in october two thousand and six for stabbing susan wallace in slashing her throat killing her dogs and burning down her victorian home in nevada city in may of two thousand by eagle sanity was how fully degraded during the trial the jurors decided he was legally sane while committing the crimes are relieved to know he's not going to be returning here in the near future wallace  after me about the rejection of the appeal but i don't know if they're planning other appeals at the court of appeals he goes was represented by san francisco based attorney donald horgan the people were represented by deputy attorney general robert nash and two young nevada county man who were arrested wednesday in connection with five different marijuana growing operations by the nevada county sheriff's department best gaiters major crimes unit initially raided three point badges in the woods mountain creek with mountain area evidence at the scene least of all to sierra led investigation investigators to residents in rough and ready and valley more marijuana growing operations are found at those sites and to suspects who were discovered at the penn valley home color adding officers seized a total of three hundred thirty five marijuana plants and seventy five hundred twenty dollars in cash the investigation is continuing and in a follow up story the rest of two the two young men wednesday in connection with five marijuana patches points to a growing problem of people abusing legal pot prescriptions according to investigation is continuing novices are combing through the prescriptions to discern the legalities of the situation some of the prescriptions were copied and allegedly used at the other sites although never had a county district attorney cliff newell has set a limit of six plants per prescription people can go more if they have legitimate documentation for other patients and can show those people are personally involved in the girl going for others is a great area the courts are just starting to address whatever it appears the farm is blatantly over the documented amount however the plants are confiscated and an investigation and looked like they were going in the hot house and then moving them outdoors other evidence at the scene on the sixteen thousand block of giant's causeway led investigators to residents in rough and ready and pan valley for marijuana growing operations were found at these sites including and indoor grow at a rough and ready site on the sixteen thousand block of rocker road two suspects were discovered at penn valley farm on ten thousand nine hundred block a terr hoops lane and were arrested without incident these guys were taken copies of medical marijuana prescription composing and to show a co operative grow to avoid possible prosecution but this was a commercial operation royle state it's a ploy that sheriff's department is beginning to see more frequently if you lose one garden than there are others or their hope when we walk away upon seeing the prescriptions posted it's a way to get around medical marijuana laws and the protocol set up by know we're building a database of these prescriptions so we can catch more  and that's it for our local news today night deep was caught on tape officers to go report for petty theft two twenty three p m a caller said apparent drunk driver was all over the road and could not maintain lanes on site where he officers were unable to locate the driver two forty five p m a person in the lobby reported be a possible victim of check fraud officers took a port for twenty five p m possible drunken driver was reported on empire's street patrolling officers were advised seven forty six a man being arrested on suspicion of having sex with a minor the man was booked into the wee brown correctional facility in a day to one p m a call from dawn to block a west mainstream report someone pulled a fire alarm when there was no emergency nine twenty two p m juveniles who reported driving up and down butler street and screaming officers were unable to locate the vehicle at eleven o eight p m caller reported a glass door was broken out on business and and eleven thirty seven p m call reporting a man following a college group of friends on east main street pulled down his pants and exposed his butt docs to them responding officers look at the man and booked him into a wait around correctional facility for indecent exposure of the by docs thursday twelve fifty a m caller reported a lot party on one hundred block of harris street and said she would call back if she heard it again eight forty eight a m a caller from business on ten o seven a m a wallet lost at least maryland driver turned into the police department owner was called and he came in to get a ten fifty two a m call requested extra patrol because vehicles were racing in the evening on butler street between many process street blowing through stop signs and making noise and it twelve o five p m a person in the lobby of police department received information from an officer regarding gang activities twelve twenty p the traffic stop and frame of mind resulted in a man being cited in release for driving a motorized scooter the scooter was confiscated the vatican it shares office on wednesday at nine o nine a m a man from twenty nine thousand baht crowley forty nine a person harassing and yelling obscenities and at ten twenty seven a m a call from the twenty five thousand block of north bluefield graniteville road and grant road requested contact with officer grand theft of multiple items and used at the store to buy iron but unknown woman the store manager didn't buy the woman because in sam's caught on tape five twenty one p m a man from ten thousand block ponderosa reported way from eagle bright marina reported that her husband had come home back from the lake she said she spoke to him by nine thirty p m when there is vehicle was blocked by a fire truck the woman was concerned her husband may have fallen asleep while waiting she called back later to say her husband had admits nicholas submarine leak pakistan lawmakers to impeach bush are because he appoints torture back or as chief of staff texas executes another foreign national and would make him eligible for release in just five months military prosecutors acts on a thirty year sentence move came one day after hamdan was convicted on two charges of material support for terrorism by quoted of the most serious charges hamdan as the first point on a prisoner to be tried in a case that was also marks the first war crimes treaty tribunals sends world war two it's unclear whether the pentagon will actually release hamdan when his term expires the bush administration says it retains the right to hold anyone indefinitely if they deemed to pose a threat at the sentencing hearing military judge captain keith already said he hopes hamdan will be allowed to return to his family and handing replied inshallah arabic for god willing captain  twenty eleven u s troops would still remain hundreds of american military bases around iraq after leaving the cities and would remain immune from prosecution deal which would face approval from the iraqi cabinet and parliament the bush administration refused to discuss timetable for withdrawing to last month but it appears the deal would provide vague language that seems the timetable has goals and horizons rather than from commitments and the summer olympic games open in china today had miss ongoing protests and this is not actually today as last week over the chinese government's record on human rights on thursday more than forty on the pick out signed an open letter calling for the chinese government to protect freedom of expression freedom of religion freedom of opinion in china as well as in tibet protests and vigils were held in cities around the world to call attention to issues including the plight of tibetans and chinese dissidents on thursday dozens of people gathered for a candlelight vigil in taiwan s said we call on china at the time that we host a lympics to provide new freedoms speech freedom and political repression internationally which they use to use the veto power of the un security council and stop supporting brutality in tibet discovered last month after two years where the japanese ports was just thirty miles south west of tokyo the pentagon says the leak was too small the causing the alarm the disclosure comes and there's controversy over u s plans to deploy another nuclear powered warship in japan s george washington and it comes just as japan mark to sixty third anniversary of the u s atomic bombing of hiroshima japan is the only country to have ever suffered a nuclear attack and in pakistan lawmakers with the ruling political coalition have announced plans to impeach president  of the pakistan people's party said parliament would begin piecemeal proceedings this month he also said the coalition believes leadership believes that it has become imperative to move for impeachment under article forty seven against general musharraf following his statement  share of canceled a trip to china for the opening ceremony of the olympic games opponents fair musharraf will dissolve the parliament and into town to fight his removal and attorney general michael m not intended to humiliate or cause harm in a previous underscores letter bends koski rights the fact that an act is undertaken to prevent and threatened terrorist attack rather than for the purpose of humiliation or abuse would be relevant to the reasonable observer in measuring the outrageousness of the act in texas has executed on during man convicted of killing his former boss and wounding a coworker alberto chief of the second foreign national during the democratic convention national convention in august local federal officials are setting up a so called public demonstrations on the plan to fence off with chicken wire or chain lights demonstrators had sought closer access to the convention site for demonstrations and parades but the court said the plans don't buy their first amendment rights in a lobbying news the financial times reports former senator majority leader tom daschle is in talks to become an advisor to the renewable judge has ruled on u s government oh a group of native americans more than four hundred million for unpaid roles he's on drilling for oil and gas the four hundred five million dollars judgment is a fraction of the forty seven billion the natives are seeking the care case much the largest ever class action lawsuit against the to we were able to find the body and latch on to some clothing and tell the divers could get there in nevada county sheriff's office was notified a body possible drowning out about eight p m wednesday search but were unable to locate the victim shortly before eleven a m thursday we located the body of a man in his twenty's said melanie oakes spokeswoman with the yuba county sheriff's office appeared it had been an accidental