By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe wants to put motels that are being used as long-term housing under a microscope to ensure they comply with health and safety codes. There are 120 hotel-motels in the city with about 5,000 rooms. Of those, 58 establishments have 1,300 rooms that are not being used for traditional tourist […]
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To the community, My wife moved up to El Dorado County in the 1980s to raise her children in a safe bucolic environment, sending them first to Buckeye School and eventually Ponderosa High School. She bought a lovely little house on 2 acres in Shingle Springs along French Creek Road, which was close to the […]
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Outdoor music – it’s becoming the norm on the South Shore. On the same day the South Lake Tahoe City Council entered a five-year deal with OnCourse Events to continue the Live at Lakeview concert series, Lake Tahoe Hard Rock announced it would be converting its back parking lot into a temporary outdoor concert amphitheater […]
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• Barton’s infection preventionist, Vicki J. McKenna, is one of 5,000 professionals in the nation who has earned a CIC, a certification in infection control, credential through the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology. • The recent storms have allowed Royal Gorge cross country ski area to reopen. • Former South Lake Tahoe resident […]
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Out of 142 retail stores surveyed during the past two months in El Dorado County, 32 sold tobacco to underage youth. The majority of stores that sold tobacco to kids were located in the unincorporated areas of the county, but nearly every community had at least one store that sold. The only exception was South […]
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The Truckee Police Department is submitting a preliminary off-highway vehicle grant applications to the California State Parks Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division for the funding to create and maintain an OHV program. The money would be used for enforcement and education related funding. The application is available online for public review and comment until April 6. Public […]
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A six-time DUI offender is likely going back to prison. Michael Ramirez, 43, of Concord was convicted Feb. 26 in El Dorado County Superior Court of two counts of felony driving under the influence and three counts of driving on a suspended license. He had been arrested in the county last summer on the driving […]
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By Kathryn Reed While there is still lingering snow on some lawns in the Lake Tahoe Basin, the fact that it is barely measurable in most places is indicative of the winter that has barely existed in the Sierra. The lack of snowfall continues to be illustrated with each snow survey. On Tuesday morning representatives […]
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By Chris Macias, Sacramento Bee The rant from Mr. Pink in the 1992 flick “Reservoir Dogs” was delivered like a salvo against the service industry: “… This tipping automatically, it’s for the birds,” said Mr. Pink (played by Steve Buscemi) before paying a breakfast tab with his gangster crew. “As far as I’m concerned, they’re […]
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Lynn Hill, widely regarded as one of the best climbers of all time, will talk March 12 at 7pm at Squaw Valley’s Olympic Village Lodge. Her show, “Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World” documents her four-decade rock career, from her humble beginnings with Yosemite’s “Stone Masters” to defining the modern era of free climbing […]
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