Seven children are hoping to hop into the record books with a creative world record attempt. Pupils from Cutteslowe Primary School are aiming to break the record for the largest display of origami ...

Had Mark Twain seen the 20,000 people who milled about last week in the little town of Angels Camp, Calaveras County, Calif, he would have beenastounded. Yet they were there because he once wrote a ...

In Angels Camp, Calaveras County, Calif., last week there was a lot of hopping being done. Local businessmen were holding the ninth Annual International Jumping Frog Jubilee. For Calaveras County ...

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The beloved Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee is back in Angels Camp, featuring frog jumping competitions from Thursday to Sunday. The financial markets are flashing an alarm right now, ...

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For this week’s library column, I bring you: National Frog Jumping Day. This day, celebrated on May 13 th, can be traced back to Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County which was ...

Conservationists released the 10,000th California red-legged frog into Yosemite National Park after a decade-long effort. The species, which is California's official state amphibian, had vanished from ...

The frog jumping event on the Capitol lawn was the competition's 50th anniversary. Lawmakers representing Calaveras County hold the event to honor the Calaveras County Fair. The frogs jumping in ...

Jumping worms, also known as "snake worms" or "crazy worms," are rapidly spreading across the country, and recently made it to the West. Reading time 3 minutes Agriculture officials are sounding the ...

INDEED FINALLY A COLLEGE GRADUATE. THERE YOU GO, CALAVERAS COUNTY FAIR STARTS THIS WEEK, AND AHEAD OF. THAT, WE ARE CELEBRATING NATIONAL FROG JUMPING DAY. SO IN 1865, AUTHOR MARK TWAIN PUBLISHED HIS ...