• Caltrans this week will activate a metering ramp on Highway 50 westbound from El Dorado Hills Boulevard. It will operate during normal commute hours from 6-9am, Monday-Friday. • Two guys from Portland bought the financially troubled KTHO radio station in South Lake Tahoe, but the station is not giving out their names. The station […]
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By Henry Grabar, Salon What makes it hard to walk in your city? Is it the quality of sidewalks, buckled by tree roots and submerged in puddles, appearing and vanishing like a disused deer trail? The foreboding urban-renewal landscapes? How about the zoning requirements that set storefronts behind tremendous fields of permanently vacant parking spaces, […]
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By Ellen Garrison, Sacramento Bee Sitting around tables in a science classroom, wrestling with chemistry equations, Sugar Bowl Academy students look like your typical high school students – except for the distinctive goggle tans on their faces. Skiing every day, snow or shine, will do that to you. The private high school, nestled in the […]
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By Rocklin-Roseville Today The geography of Placer County stretches from the flatlands of western Roseville to the mountains surrounding Lake Tahoe. This presents difficulties for all citizens to participate in local government. When the Placer County Board of Supervisors meets in Auburn this week, the meeting will feature something that’s never been done before — […]
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By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun What do a lost pair of dentures, damaged windshields and disgruntled inmates have in common? Lawsuits against the state. Since 2013, the state paid $5.07 million to claimants alleging they were victims of wrongdoing brought on by the government. The 379 tort claims are a mishmash of bizarre, grisly […]
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This photo, above, shows then and now. Still standing at the crosswalk on Highway 50 at Lyons Avenue is a telephone booth-sized structure with windows, door, and shake roof. It was the weather shelter for Mrs. Rosie the Crossing Guard. Rosie Borges worked as a crossing guard for the Lake Tahoe Unified School District and […]
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By Kathryn Reed CARSON PASS – Sometimes it’s not about the destination. At least that was the philosophy we embraced when we didn’t make it to our desired end point. Arriving in a blizzard not knowing exactly where we were going was bound to have that outcome. But what this trek two weeks ago proved […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Feb. 18, 2015, Los Angeles Times. Just over 100 days have passed since California voters adopted Proposition 47, which reduced six specific felonies to misdemeanors; and it will be nine more months before the state quantifies and distributes the first year’s worth of savings it will accumulate by […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal Brothers Clint and Colt Hess combined for 27 points as the Virginia City boys basketball team defeated Whittell, 37-33, for the second consecutive year in the Division IV Northern Region championship game on Saturday at Spring Creek High School. For the Warriors, Palmer Chaplin scored 14 points and Quinn Kixmiller added 10. […]
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Novelist Gayle Brandeis and short story writer Dimitri Keriotis will read selections from their works, answer audience questions, and sign copies of their books, which will be available for sale on March 5 at 7pm at Lake Tahoe Community College. Brandeis is the author of “Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write”, “The Book […]
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