Publisher’s note: This letter was given to the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors on June 2, with a copy given to CAO Pamela Knorr. Ladies and Gentlemen: For the past couple of years, I have been asking for the county staff and sometimes your board to fix certain county ordinances, policies, and fee collection […]
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By Eric Holthaus, Slate In the rush to decarbonize the world’s economy, there’s one simple, surprising technology that’s more important than any other: water falling down a hill. Huge dams fitted with hydroelectric power plants may seem very 20th century. Their basic technology — falling water turning a paddle wheel — hasn’t changed much in […]
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Watching an Aces baseball game will help Austin’s House, the only emergency children’s shelter in rural Northern Nevada. Only 300 right field reserved seats are available for $12. Six dollars of each ticket sold goes directly to benefit Austin’s House. The July 7, 7:05pm game pits the Reno Aces against the Sacramento River Cats. Austin’s House will […]
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By Geoffrey Mohan, Los Angeles Times The drought is on track to dry up $2.7 billion in revenue and erase more than 18,600 jobs from the California economy this year, according to a preliminary report. But that blow has been hard to detect because the agriculture sector is just 2% of the overall state economy […]
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Public comments are being taken on draft Tahoe Basin Area Plan and Notice of Preparation of a draft environmental impact report/environmental impact study for the proposed Tahoe Basin Area Plan and Tahoe City Lodge pilot project. More information about the Placer County plans may be found online. Comments will be taken until Aug. 3 at 5pm. Address […]
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Lake Tahoe Unified students made a big push Thursday to take the lead in the Tahoe Bike Challenge. With about 150 students pedaling 5 miles, that is 750 miles the kids have tallied. The challenge goes through June 14. It includes groups and individuals. At the magnet school on June 4 there was a bike […]
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Motorists should expect to see thousands of bicyclists all around Lake Tahoe during Sunday’s annual America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride. Northbound traffic on Highway 89 in Emerald Bay from Spring Creek Road to Vikingsholm Vista Point will be held to through traffic from 6:30-8:30am on June 7. The southbound lane will remain open. There are […]
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The Tahoe Tennis Classic is so popular that it has become a four-day tournament, July 30-Aug. 2. Teams are already signing up for the 32nd annual event. The all doubles event (women’s, men’s, mixed) at Zephyr Cove Tennis Club each year features teams from across the country as well as those from the Tahoe-Truckee-Reno area. Levels of […]
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By Rick Gladstone, New York Times The number of hungry people globally has declined from about 1 billion 25 years ago to about 795 million today, or about one person out of every nine, despite a surge in population growth, the United Nations reported Wednesday. In developing regions, the number of hungry people has fallen to […]
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A Southern California woman died in a single-vehicle accident near Glenbrook on June 3. Darlene M. Hall, 75, of Skyforest was pronounced dead at the scene of the 8:35am accident on Highway 50. She was wearing her seat belt. One of the two dogs in the vehicle also died. The other was taken to a […]
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