· Here are the El Dorado-Tahoe and Sierra roadwork schedules from Caltrans for the week. · El Dorado County is ranked in the top 2 percent of U.S. counties for the number of natural amenities, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. · Tahoe Donner’s Fall Festival is Oct. 10 from 11am-5pm at the Northwoods Clubhouse. There will […]
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Chautauqua performers Chuck Baldauskas and Doc Durden present Buffalo Bill & Wild Bill: Pals Together Again at the Dangberg Ranch in Minden on Sept. 2. William F. Cody worked as a trapper, gold prospector and Pony Express rider all by the age of 14. During the Civil War he became a wagon driver for a […]
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By Rory Appleton, Fresno Bee A special firefighting team with the Sierra National Forest hiked into the mouth of the 56,900-acre Rough Fire on Thursday to drop special equipment in the blaze’s path, and data recorded by the equipment may help prevent future wildfires. Rough Fire public information officer Shawn Lenske hiked alongside the 10-man […]
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To the community, Although TRPA has spent a lot of time since 2012 touting messages about how “Lake Tahoe is often looked to as an area on the cutting edge of environmental planning” (e.g. 1, 2, 3), we beg to differ. This may have been the case decades ago, but other areas now surpass Lake […]
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is putting on a free fishing day Sept. 5. This means no need to buy a sport fishing license. All fishing regulations, such as bag and size limits, gear restrictions, report card requirements, fishing hours and stream closures remain in effect. Every angler must have an appropriate report card […]
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Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources will sell firewood permits starting Sept. 12. Approximately 150 permits available on a first-come, first-served basis. The wood consists of a mixture of pine and fir, some seasoned and some green. The permit sale starts at 7am on the 1st floor of the Richard H. Bryan state office […]
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South Lake Tahoe’s Friends of the Library is putting on two events in September. The first in Sept. 15 at 6pm. In partnership with the Lake Tahoe Historical Society the Friends are bringing back author Mary Jo Sonntag. Her presentation will answer questions about the early pioneers in the area, what pioneer life was really like, and what diseases […]
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By Anne Knowles The developer of a solar project rejected by Douglas County last month is contesting the county’s ruling. Greenstone Renewables LLC filed a petition for judicial review of the Douglas County Commissioners’ decision to uphold an appeal of the special use permit allowing Greenstone to build a 20-megawatt, 260-acre solar plant on Muller […]
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Publisher’s note: This letter was originally sent to the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors and reprinted with permission. Supervisors, Last year, at your annual Tahoe Board of Supervisors meeting, you couldn’t swing a dead cat in that room without hitting a grant writer or grant getter – often one and the same person. The […]
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By Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic On Wednesday, the ACLU of Southern California released the results of a statewide survey that it commissioned to gauge the attitudes of likely voters toward policing reforms. The results were overwhelming: 84 percent favor requiring police officers to wear body cameras. 74 percent of survey respondents believe the public should have […]
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