· Truckee is offering free transit on New Year’s Eve. For more info, go online. · IVGID will have curbside Christmas tree recycling Jan. 4-8. Trees must be cut into 3-foot or smaller sections. · There will be a court hearing Jan. 22 about the California fire tax. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is asking […]
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By USSA VAL D’ISERE, France – Laurenne Ross (Bend, Ore.) cracked the top 10 as Lindsey Vonn’s (Vail) bid for a record-tying downhill victory hit a bump in the road Saturday. Vonn, the current overall World Cup leader, was 0.13 faster than Switzerland’s Lara Gut at the first split time when she hit a bump […]
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A series of free business planning workshops, for eligible businesses with five or fewer employees (including business owner), will begin in El Dorado County starting the week of Jan. 21. Qualifying start-up and existing small businesses may attend the workshops at no cost. Businesses must be located in the unincorporated area of El Dorado County […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s possible kayakers using the Upper Truckee River may one day not be able to reach Lake Tahoe. And the landowners are OK with that. The California Tahoe Conservancy board on Dec. 18 certified the environmental documents for the Upper Truckee River and Marsh restoration project and approved the preferred alternative. Tom […]
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By Kristin Gilger If your son is a priest and your daughter a journalist, “Spotlight” is a jarring movie. There are journalists and lawyers aplenty in this recently released movie about the Boston Globe’s investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, but hardly any priests. I went to see “Spotlight” to cheer for the […]
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By Bella DePaulo, Washington Post When I taught a psychology course on singles in America at the University of Virginia in 1999, one of the assignments was: Go out to dinner alone. One of my students waited patiently as the hostess seated one party after another; the hostess thought my student was waiting for someone else, so she ignored […]
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By Juliet Williams, AP Cleaning up from two destructive Northern California wildfires this fall will cost at least $243 million, far exceeding the cost for other recent blazes, state officials estimated Friday as they transferred more money from the state’s rainy day fund to help pay for it. “The devastation caused by these fires is […]
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Joel Suenkel has been hired as deputy forest supervisor for the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. The position had been vacant since February when Jeff Marsolais, who had the job, became supervisor of LTBMU. Most recently Suenkel was a colonel in the U.S. Army serving in Germany. He is an expert in strategic planning, process improvement […]
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By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle The stormy weather expected to dampen California for the next several days — which holds promise of a wet and even white Christmas some places — is just the beginning of what promises to be a soggy winter ahead, federal climate experts said Thursday. This week’s monthly report by […]
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By USSA VAL GARDENA, Italy – Coming off a career-best super G result at Beaver Creek, Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, N.Y.) was once again the top American, finishing fifth, at the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup super G Friday. The winning ways of Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal continued as the Attacking Viking captured the Val […]
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