By Anthony P. Carnevale, Andrew R. Hanson and Megan Fasules, The Conversation Unlike old-fashioned vocational education, high school-level career and technical education doesn’t really prepare people for jobs directly after high school. While the stated end goal of K-12 education in America is for students to be “college and career ready,” the reality is the […]
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By Jane E. Brody, New York Times The potentially harmful effects of loneliness and social isolation on health and longevity, especially among older adults, are well established. For example, in 2013 I reported on research finding that loneliness can impair health by raising levels of stress hormones and inflammation, which in turn can increase the […]
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By Angela Hart, Sacramento Bee California lawmakers are preparing new housing legislation this week, just months after Democrats in both houses pushed through the biggest legislative package on housing in decades. As the Legislature returns for session, state Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, will unveil his 2018 proposals. Wiener, author of a new […]
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Longtime South Lake Tahoe local Ronson Sakioka passed away Dec. 21, 2017. He was 64. Ronson was struck by a vehicle in Nevada City after attending the Victorian Christmas Festival with family. He was born and raised in San Jose. When he was in his early 20s he went skiing in South Lake Tahoe and […]
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A Nevada inmate on work detail near Incline Village on Tuesday decided to take a break at the Hyatt. Steven Timothy Grant, 30, left the work crew about 2pm Jan. 2. He was located at the hotel-casino about four hours later. The minimum security inmate crew with the Nevada Department of Corrections was working in […]
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· Charles Wilson is now executive chef of Edgewood Tahoe. · Lewis Carillo III of Santa Rosa has been identified as the skier who died last week at Heavenly Mountain Resort. · From the California Highway Patrol, “At least 40 people were killed in collisions in California between 6:01pm Dec. 29 and 11:59pm Jan. 1. […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION – A major component of the first snow of the year was missing – snow. Even so, there was something to measure. On Jan. 3 the California Department of Water Resources recorded an average depth of 1.3 inches of snow in the field adjacent to the entrance of Sierra-at-Tahoe. This […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee 2017 will go down as one of the worst in California wildfire history, the latest state fire statistics show. Large wildfires destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 structures in California last year, a higher tally than the last nine years combined. Large wildfires had killed 43 people – 41 civilians […]
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El Dorado County youth in grades 8-12 are invited to participate in the Teen Court program. Training is mandatory for all new and returning participants. Training will be Jan. 17 from 6-8pm at El Dorado County Superior Court, 495 Main St. in Placerville. Students are asked to arrive no later than 5:30pm. After completing training, […]
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Funding is still available for eligible seniors living in high hazard areas specific to tree mortality, including South Lake Tahoe, Camino, Pollock Pines, Somerset, Garden Valley, Greenwood and Georgetown. Applicants for the Hazardous Tree Removal Program must be 60 or older, own the property on which they reside and have incomes at or below 60 […]
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