The El Dorado County Planning Commission will consider the Meyers Area Plan on Nov. 9 at 8:30am. The meeting will be in Building C at 2850 Fairlane Court, Placerville. The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on the plan Dec. 12. That meeting begins at 9am in Building A, 330 Fair […]
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To the community, A gracious thank you to those who participated in the Faces of Homelessness on Oct. 26 at Valhalla, especially our primary event sponsors Temple Bat Yam and the Tahoe Chamber. It was warm inside the great room, with a fire roaring behind our presenters; however, their accounts of being homeless were quite […]
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Alpenglow Sports will host the 13th annual Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival on Dec. 1 at 7pm. It will include an award winning lineup of short films celebrating adventure, environmental consciousness, youth involvement in the outdoors, and more. The Backcountry Film Festival is produced by Winter Wildlands Alliance as a celebration of the human-powered […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of stories about Lake Tahoe area athletes who hope to compete in the 2018 Olympics in South Korea. By Susan Wood PARK CITY, Utah – With 16 medals under his belt, it’s difficult to imagine this self-assured family man who snowboards for a living insisting on needing […]
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By Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle All that is left now are ashes and ruins. The terrifying walls of fire and smoke that rolled over the region are gone. The North Bay fires have almost dropped out of the news. But 42 persons are known dead, and many are still missing. We may never know […]
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By Bruce Finley, Denver Post People escaping light pollution where they live have forded an icy creek and are rediscovering the night, wandering around on mystical moist sand in the near-total darkness of this wilderness. They covet silence and stars — splayed across a moonless sky revealing the Milky Way Galaxy — increasingly popular assets at […]
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By Ryan Sabalow and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Victoria Vaughn doesn’t have a killer’s heart. The 59-year-old artist and former substitute teacher, whose eyes well with tears when she gets upset, loves animals. It’s why she started raising alpacas for wool for her weaving projects in the first place. She certainly never thought she’d want […]
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By Associated Press Governors of 19 Western states are pressing the federal government to do more to prevent the spread of damage-causing invasive mussels from infected federally managed waterways. The Western Governors’ Association last week sent a letter urging Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to put in place by spring 2018 controls to prevent the […]
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By Ally Gravina, Moonshine Ink It’s no secret that mountain bikes are expensive, especially for a teenage boy who grows like a weed. For Luca Robillard, 14, and his mom Annie, who live in Truckee, a June trip to Coffeebar turned into the opportunity of a lifetime when the single mom and her son ran […]
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The shooting Saturday in Kings Beach has been ruled a murder-suicide by Placer County sheriff’s deputies. “The manager showed up at the woman’s room, they exchanged heated words, and he pulled a gun and shot her. The woman’s boyfriend was present in the room, and as he ran to the bathroom window to escape, he […]
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