Placer County is going to have to find another way to obtain hotel rooms. After the property owners of the A&A Motel in South Lake Tahoe declined the county’s request to extend the pre-purchase contingency period to April, the county quashed the deal. Placer needs tourist accommodation units for future projects in Kings Beach and Tahoe City. […]
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By Associated Press Nevada is defending its school choice program that offers parents several thousand dollars to send their children to private schools if they choose. State solicitor general Lawrence VanDyke argued Thursday in a Clark County court that a case filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church […]
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Occasionally I find additional interesting photos about sites previously visited on Then and Now. Here is more pictorial history of the Bijou Center and Conolley’s in South Lake Tahoe: Bijou in the early 1900s included the Young Brothers’ Bijou Resort. Neighboring Conolley’s Resort was just to the west, also on the beach. By 1951, Young’s […]
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By Kathryn Reed Christmas trees are big business in El Dorado County and the drought is not drying out the money train. While the number of trees harvested in El Dorado County is going up, that is not true of the whole state. According to the National Christmas Tree Association, California harvested 383,940 trees in […]
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By Joe Mathews When you cross from Oregon into California on Interstate 5, you will not be greeted by any welcoming party or grand gate. The first sign of California civilization is the giant All Star Liquors store, in tiny Hilt. And if you enter California from Oregon along Highway 101, you’ll get the same […]
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By Warren Cornwall, Outside Last January, at the center of a Las Vegas arena, Anderson Silva secured his legacy as one of the best mixed-martial artists in history. The 40-year-old Brazilian fighter battered his opponent in five rounds of hooks, jabs, and kicks in a fight put on by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. But four […]
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The 2016 U.S. Snowboarding halfpipe, slopestyle, big air and snowboardcross teams, led by Olympians Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton, Vt.), Kelly Clark (West Dover, Vt.), Taylor Gold (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) and Chas Guldemond (Truckee) have been officially announced. The pro team features a roster of 33 internationally-ranked snowboarders, including 19 Olympians and three Olympic gold medalists. 2016 […]
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El Dorado County sheriff’s Deputy Tony Broadfoot was arrested Dec. 8 on driving under the influence charges. A California Highway Patrol officer made the stop in South Lake Tahoe that evening about 7. Broadfoot was driving his personal vehicle. “He is on paid administrative leave,” sheriff’s Lt. Bryan Golmitz told Lake Tahoe News. The CHP […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal The dream of biking from Reno to the shores of Lake Tahoe just got about 2 million steps closer to reality. That’s thanks to more than $2 million in funding from the Federal Highway Administration is being directed to complete a segment of the Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway between Reno and Truckee. The […]
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The National Weather Service in Reno has placed the Lake Tahoe Basin under a winter storm warning from 4am to 7pm on Sunday. The heaviest snow is expected to be between 10am and 4pm, with 6 to 10 inches at lake level and 10 to 18 inches above 7,000 feet. Winds will be the strongest […]
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