By David Sharp, AP PORTLAND, Maine — A real estate investment trust that’s selling more than a dozen ski resorts from Maine to California won’t meet its deadline of completing the transaction by year’s end. CNL Lifestyle Properties, which is based in Orlando, Fla., has sold its senior housing portfolio, a dozen marinas, four attractions, […]
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By Josh Dulaney, Long Beach Press Telegram Community college students are earning specialized transfer degrees at a blistering pace. The number of associate degrees for transfer nearly doubled in 2014-15 from the previous year, with 20,644 students earning the honor, according to figures released earlier this month by the Chancellor’s Office of California Community Colleges. […]
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By Emily Summers, Deer Valley Stein Eriksen, the legendary alpine skier whose revolutionary technique and distinctive style made him a founder of modern skiing, passed away peacefully Dec. 27, 2015, at his home in Park City surrounded by family. He was 88. As one of the most recognized names in the ski world, Stein Eriksen […]
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Chester is a 5-month-old puppy who is a handful. He is a big puppy, probably 40 pounds already, and he’s going to be a big adult. Our best guess is that he’s a mastiff-Fila Brasileiro mix. Chester is very sweet and has all the typical puppy characteristics — lots of energy, loves to play, loves […]
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By Kathryn Reed When Caltrans returns in 2017 to do the Y to Trout Creek project South Lake Tahoe officials do not want a repeat of what happened this summer. “This project this summer caused so much disruption,” City Manager Nancy Kerry told Clark Peri. Peri is the project manager for the Caltrans district that […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Dec. 10, 2015, Los Angeles Times. Is anyone mourning the No Child Left Behind Act? Its clumsy regulations and harshly punitive measures against low-performing schools left many, many students behind and worsened education in multiple communities around the nation. But the Every Student Succeeds Act, which President Obama […]
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By Paul Elias, AP SAN FRANCISCO — Crystal Patterson didn’t have the cash or assets to post $150,000 bail and get out of jail after her arrest for assault in October. So Patterson, 39, promised to pay a bail bonds company $15,000 plus interest to put up the $150,000 bail for her, allowing to go […]
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NAMI Family Support Group is a free, confidential and safe support group of families helping other families who live with mental health challenges by utilizing their collective lived experience and group wisdom. The group meets the second Tuesday of each month form 6-7:30pm. Participants will learn best practices for caring for a loved one who is living with […]
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By Nathan Halverson, Reveal If the Paris climate pact is going to succeed at staving off climate change disaster, the 195 participating countries will need to achieve a difficult feat – trust. Yet the U.S. government already is failing to implement its own rules on tracking emissions. It is not collecting emission reports from one […]
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By Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times The people most likely to refuse to have their children vaccinated tend to be white, well-educated and affluent, researchers report. A study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Public Health used California state government data on “personal belief exemptions,” or opting out of vaccinations for […]
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