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Have you ever had a car incident and had to figure out how to get to where you need to go? Earlier this month, new California State Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil of Jackson found herself in just such a situation.




Senator Marie Alvarado Gil toured flood damage in the Valley Springs area this week, along with Calaveras County Office of Emergency Services Director John Osbourn, Supervisor Gary Tofanelli, and Calaveras Consolidated Fire Chief Richard Dickinson.




On Jan. 5, the California State Senate announced its 2023-24 committee assignments.

Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil (D-Jackson) was selected as the chair of the Human Services Committee and selected to be a member of six standing committees and one joint committee.




The Mother Lode’s recently elected state Senator, Marie Alvarado Gil, has received her assignments for the new legislative session.

Notably, Alvarado Gil, a Democrat, will be the Chair of the Human Services Committee.




Members of the Inyo Board of Supervisors and key staff had a chance to meet last weekend with newly elected State Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil to discuss issues and challenges affecting Inyo County.

Senator Alvarado-Gil stopped in Bishop last Saturday as part of a goodwill/fact-finding tour of California’s sprawling 4th District, which also includes Mono, Amador, Alpine, Calavares, El Dorado, Mariposa, Madera, Merced, Nevada, Placer, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne counties.




She can castrate goats and inseminate dairy cows.

In her youth, she learned to love reading from trashy paperbacks picked up at garage sales while resisting recruitment into gangs and human trafficking.