By Paula Lloyd, The Fresno Bee, Calif. Aug. 1--SQUAW VALLEY -- About 150 foothill residents jammed the Squaw Valley library to overflowing Thursday night for a sometimes angry town hall meeting with Pacific Gas & Electric officials over a proposed route for a high-voltage power line.

By David Watts Barton, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Jul. 26--The sky is still light in the west, clear and a vague blue-yellow-green fusion. Venus is shining brightly over the horizon despite the lingering light.

By Minty Clinch Big sky, big snow, big wagons. That's how the Rockies were when the West was won and that's how they are today. No doubt 19th- century pioneers driving horse-drawn carts cursed the champagne powder fields that barred their progress.

By Kerri Ginis, The Fresno Bee, Calif. Mar. 19--In the small community of Squaw Valley, a dispute is brewing over the location of a proposed cell phone tower that some say will ruin their scenic mountain views.