South Lake Tahoe Police Department has been awarded a $47,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety for a yearlong program of special enforcements and public awareness efforts to prevent traffic related deaths and injuries. After falling dramatically between 2006 and 2010, the number of people killed and injured in traffic collisions saw slight increases […]
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By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times A decade ago, many of California’s public pension plans had plenty of money to pay for workers’ retirements. All that has changed, according to a far-reaching package of data from the state controller. Taxpayers are now on the hook for billions of dollars more to cover the future retirements […]
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By Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times This past month was the third-warmest October in California since officials began keeping records more than a century ago, continuing the state’s pattern in what is likely to be its hottest year ever, according to government climatologists. The average temperature statewide last month was 64.5 degrees, less than one […]
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By Betty Martin, Calaveras Enterprise Despite numerous pleas from residents to postpone the vote, David Eggerton is the new general manager at the Calaveras County Water District. Directors approved the move on a 3-0-2 vote at Wednesday’s board meeting, which saw Director Jeff Davidson and Don Stump away on vacation. The controversial vote drew particular […]
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By Kathryn Reed The beach by Timber Cove Marina is not as public as some would like it to be and is too public for the hotel-pier owners. This stretch of sand in South Lake Tahoe is going to be the subject of discussion by the City Council when it meets Nov. 18 at 9am […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Nov. 11, 2014, New York Times. The abysmally low turnout in last week’s midterm elections — the lowest in more than seven decades — was bad for Democrats, but it was even worse for democracy. In 43 states, less than half the eligible population bothered to vote, and […]
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Garbage rates on the South Shore are going up Jan. 1. The Waste Management Joint Powers Authority on Nov. 14 approved rates in South Lake Tahoe and Douglas County to increase by 2.88 percent and 2.66 percent in El Dorado County. This board is made up Nancy McDermid from Douglas County, JoAnn Conner of South Lake […]
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• The Black Bear Inn in South Lake Tahoe isn’t allowed to name the network or show, but a production crew and cast just wrapped up the pilot for a new reality show to be aired the second quarter of 2015. • El Dorado Arts Council is now the 501(c)3 BATS (Bring Arts to Schools) […]
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An item on Tuesday’s South Lake Tahoe City Council agenda shows that the now defunct paid parking program made money. Vavrinek, Trine, Day & Company, a certified public accounting firm, conducted an independent review of the parking program and found that had the program existed for five years, it would have had net revenue of […]
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By Associated Press SACRAMENTO — As the U.S. and China — the world’s top two polluting nations — turn to implementing new rules aimed at curbing climate change, the countries can look to the most populous U.S. state as an example of the costs and challenges of fighting global warming. California already has imposed some […]
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