By Kathryn Reed After a marathon closed session Tuesday, it was decided South Lake Tahoe City Manager Nancy Kerry would take some time off. Kerry told LTN she was planning to take a couple weeks off. Mayor Wendy David would not say whose choice it was for the time off – the council’s or Kerry’s. […]
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By Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon A few months ago, I attended one of the best memorials I’ve ever been to. It was a glorious, sunlit afternoon full of friends and music. It was just weeks after my friend Jessica’s birthday. And a month before she died. Life doesn’t often give us the luxury of being […]
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By Ben Casselman, New York Times Over all, average hourly earnings were only 2.5 percent higher in December than a year earlier, barely outpacing inflation. It’s part of a stubborn pattern that is one of the mysteries of a recovery now in its ninth year. These are a few factors that may be playing a […]
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By David Downs, San Francisco Chronicle Cannabis is legal in our great state, and maybe you’re ready to scope out the new landscape of cannabis-related tourism. The floodgates have opened, you think, and there’s now a wellspring of pro-marijuana activities, events and venues to frolic through and explore, right? Well, not exactly. While cannabis […]
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By Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee A young female coyote has been freed after spending at least a week-and-a-half wandering Placer and El Dorado counties with a plastic jar stuck over its head. The coyote’s unfortunate situation was first reported to Gold Country Wildlife Rescue on Jan. 26, prompting several search parties to trek into the […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Human-induced climate change could make future winter Olympics risky business for some of the world’s likeliest host venues. That’s according to published research by scientists who studied 21 former and potential future winter Olympics venues. They found that by mid-century, as many as 10 former venues, including Lake Tahoe and Vancouver, […]
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· El Dorado County CAO Don Ashton will be hosting a community round table on Feb. 8, 5:30-7pm at the Cameron Park Library. · Douglas County Public Library in Minden will be closed Feb. 19. · The Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe recently brought pets to local high schools to act as therapy dogs and help […]
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To the community, I recently heard about a fire in a VHR on the North Shore. The eight adults, eight children and two dogs were able to escape. The cause of the fire at the vacation rental is under investigation. Here is a prime example of the complaints fielded by officials about crowded VHRs. The […]
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By Paul Rogers, Bay Area News Group Hoping for a March Miracle to bail out California’s dry winter? It’s not likely. A review of more than 100 years of rainfall records of major cities in California — including San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Rosa, Redding and Fresno — shows that none have ever […]
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A new energy storage system to serve Liberty Utilities’ Olympic Valley residential and commercial customers in the event of an electric outage is proposed for the North Tahoe region. The Olympic Valley Microgrid Project would leverage state-of-the-art battery storage technology to create a new way to store surplus energy and deliver that stored energy to […]
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