The Food Bank of El Dorado County will be in South Lake Tahoe to host a free farmers market and mobile food pantry on Sept. 23. The 10-11am event will be at the American Legion Hall located at 2748 Lake Tahoe Blvd. One allocation per household will be distributed. Income guidelines may be found online. […]
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By Andy Wirth Last week the Reno City Council voted to support the Clean Power Plan, which will help to move our country away from dirty coal power toward clean and renewable energy. With their vote, the council became yet another important entity in the region to pledge support for the Clean Power Plan, joining a great many […]
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By Kathryn Reed Money was the dominant subject at Tuesday’s South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting. After multiple attempts by the Tahoe Prosperity Center to get $10,000 from the city, the council said yes on a 4-1 vote on Sept. 15. Councilwoman JoAnn Conner was the dissenting member. Conner is against giving any nonprofit taxpayer […]
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Blue skies have returned to the Lake Tahoe Basin as firefighters continue to make inroads on two major burns in Northern California. Fire spread was minimal overnight for the Butte and Valley fires. Cooler temps and some moisture are aiding suppression efforts. The Butte Fire, which has brought smoke to Tahoe-Truckee-Carson-Reno for several days, is […]
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Churches in Tahoe City and Kings Beach were vandalized between Sept. 13 and Sept. 14. One religious statue and exterior walls were spray painted with offensive statements. This comes on the heels of a rash of church vandalism in Incline Village. Detectives in Placer and Washoe counties are collaborating. Anyone with information regarding these crimes is […]
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By Kathryn Reed and Joann Eisenbrandt Jeremy Meyers, superintendent of the El Dorado County Office of Education, was not at Tuesday’s special board meeting where he was the only agenda item. He did write a letter to the board and had spoken to each member before the meeting. “As you know, as elected county superintendent, […]
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By Larry Weitzman Lexus has the tagline “In the Pursuit of Perfection.” However, has the refined fourth generation hit the mark yet? In many ways it’s the perfect midsize car wheelbase of 112 inches and length of 190 inches while offering a perfect beam of 72 inches. The result is an interior of mammoth with […]
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The U.S. Forest Service will close several of its South Shore recreation sites Sept. 16, weather permitting, to allow county and state public health and vector control officials to conduct pesticide treatments to reduce plague risk. Officials will dust all rodent burrows with a pesticide to reduce infestations of fleas that can carry plague. The […]
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By C. Robert Gibson, Al Jazeera America The cost of childcare is bankrupting America’s parents. But providing free, universal childcare for all parents is easily affordable by simply cutting a small handful of military programs whose absence almost nobody would notice. Joy Richmond-Smith is a full-time social worker and mother of two small children. Her husband […]
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By Victoria Stilwell, Bloomberg Business We already know that poverty disproportionately affects children, with about 20 percent of those younger than 18 impoverished versus about 13 percent of adults. New research from the Urban Institute in Washington shows child poverty is actually more common than those headline statistics suggest, and that has consequences for success in adulthood. Some 39 percent of children […]
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