Recent rains and cooler temperatures across the region have lowered the threat of wildfires allowing CalFire’s Amador–El Dorado Unit to transition out of peak fire season effective today in Amador, El Dorado, Sacramento and Alpine counties. CalFire will continue to maintain staffing to meet any potential threat, as well as maintaining the ability to strategically […]
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To the community, In writing this letter, I am only expressing my own opinion and not that of any organization or entity. Vacation home rentals (VHRs) in El Dorado County are out of control. As is evidenced by the number of residents complaining about noise, parking, trash, over-occupancy, etc., it is time for our government […]
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· Both branches of the Douglas County library will be hosting Christmas ornament decorating events. The Zephyr Cove event is Dec. 6, 4-6pm, and the Minden one is Dec. 5, 4-6pm. All crafting supplies will be provided, and adult-level coloring pages will also be available as an extra art project. These crafting programs are drop-in and […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – There’s a memorable scene in the movie “Big” where lead actor Tom Hanks leaves a dinner party table to explain algebra to a boy having trouble with it. Hanks tells the youngster to forget the X’s and Y’s. “Let’s imagine Larry Bird is going to score 10 points in the […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Nov. 14, 2017, Water Deeply. It’s time for California to rethink how it manages water for the environment. Despite four decades of effort, many of the state’s freshwater-dependent native species are in decline. Controversy over water for the environment remains high. The latest drought left lasting impacts on […]
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By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times When 50,000 acre-feet of water went gushing out of the Sacramento River last month, it fast became a test of California’s ability to protect its environmental policies from an increasingly hostile Trump administration. The episode proved humbling. Heeding the calls of big agriculture interests and area congressional Republicans, […]
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By Guy McCarthy, Union Democrat Three bears have been killed by vehicles in Yosemite National Park in the past three weeks, and park staff are urging motorists to obey posted speed limits. More than 400 vehicle-bear collisions have occurred in Yosemite since 1995, according to park staff and the website KeepBearsWild.org. Vehicle-bear collisions are now […]
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By Kathryn Reed When I was in Greece in my 20s I lived off gyros. They were easy to come by, super cheap – and oh, so incredibly delicious. They were sold on the street. (Not sure if this is still true.) Vendors would shave off thin slices of lamb from the large spit. The […]
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By Ben Coxworth, New Atlas The sooner that you know an invasive species is present in your local environment, the better the chances that you can control it before it becomes unmanageable. It was with this in mind that researchers from the University of Illinois recently detected the presence of a species of invasive freshwater […]
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Molly Matthews Mundy died in a tragic auto accident on Nov. 2, 2017. She was 25. Molly was born Sept. 2, 1992, and raised in South Lake Tahoe. She loved the outdoors, soccer, her two dogs and cat, country music, and most of all, family. You could often find her on a local beach with […]
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