By Larry Weitzman Before Terri Daly got the job as El Dorado County assistant chief administrative officer and then CAO, she was the CAO of Amador County working her way up from assistant CAO to CAO. She cost Amador County about $20 million in a bad lease deal which I wrote about four years ago. […]
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By Megan Michelson, Powder The crash was classic Jackie Paaso. It was April, in Verbier, Switzerland, for the final stop of the Freeride World Tour. Paaso, a veteran competitor on the FWT and the 2016 winner on this venue, skied the top of the famous Bec des Rosses relatively conservatively, arcing fast, fluid turns […]
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By Robert Rupp When medications and other treatments don’t help your hip pain, you may have hip arthritis. Surgery to replace the hip joint may be the answer. An orthopedic surgeon who has experience with hip arthritis will understand your frustration with the pain and be able to help you get back to living your […]
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To the community, I have lived in South Lake Tahoe for 37 years and hope to live in this amazing place for many more years to come. In that time I have not always been pleased with the way our city has spent its tax revenues, but in the last several years I believe there […]
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By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times What does it take to get Californians to save water during a massive drought? Apparently, a lot of ink and newsprint helps. Extensive news coverage of the state’s historic drought prompted residents to conserve water, research out of Stanford University suggests. The more that major newspapers wrote about […]
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Developers who want to build more than 400 houses on the West Slope didn’t receive much encouragement this month from El Dorado County supervisors. While no action was taken at last week’s public hearing, plenty of angry neighbors gave their two cents. The developer, True Life Companies, also gave an update on revisions to the […]
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By Mick Akers, Las Vegas Sun A pilot program that began in 2015, made permanent by the Nevada Legislature this year, continues to help small businesses grow. Nevada Grow provides small-business owners who are looking to expand with technical assistance and strategic research. Assembly Bill 94, sponsored by Assemblywoman Dina Neal, D-Las Vegas, was signed […]
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The South Lake Tahoe Library is starting a fiber art group. It will meet on the first Friday of the month from 2-3pm. The group is open to those who enjoy knitting, crocheting, embroidery, hand sewing and other fiber arts. Participants are likely to learn new tricks, are encouraged to share projects, ideas, and stories […]
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By Seth Borenstein and Emily Swanson, San Francisco Chronicle After hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria blitzed the nation, most Americans think weather disasters are getting more severe and see global warming’s fingerprints. A poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 68 percent of Americans think weather disasters seem to be […]
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Herbert King Wheeler passed away peacefully on Oct. 28, 2017, in Reno with his wife, Donna, by his side. He was 88. He was born April 10, 1929, at Morton Hospital in Taunton, Mass., to Charles Alden Wheeler and Marion King Wheeler. Herb spent his early and teen years in Mansfield, Mass., where he attended […]
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