By Joe Mathews California’s small, rural towns are supposedly desperate and doomed, as state policy favors our coastal mega-regions. So how do you explain Gonzales? Despite its location in the high-poverty Salinas Valley, the city of just 9,000 has a success story to share: relatively low crime, 96 percent high school graduation rates, new health […]
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By Adina Solomon, Washington Post Sara Moran’s closet in her Colonial house, built in 1920, once served as a nursery for a past homeowner. But Moran and her husband don’t need that nursery. They have no plans to extend beyond the confines of their two bedrooms and small yard in Stratford, Conn. The fertility rate […]
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By Thomas Moore, Las Vegas Sun One of only two remaining online poker providers in Nevada, WSOP.com is celebrating its fourth anniversary this week. The company began operating on Sept. 19, 2013, several months after the Nevada Legislature passed Assembly Bill 114 and Gov. Brian Sandoval signed it into law legalizing the business. At the […]
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By Hudson Sangree, Sacramento Bee More homes were sold across the four-county Sacramento region this summer than in any similar period since the peak of the housing bubble in 2005, CoreLogic reported Wednesday. In the Sacramento suburbs, El Dorado County’s median sale price for new and existing homes in August was $483,000, up 16 percent […]
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A parolee from South Lake Tahoe who was wanted on a misdemeanor warrant from Stateline was arrested on felony charges this week in Douglas County. Deputies stopped Ray Brashears, 33,on Sept. 19 at about 9pm while he was driving in Minden. “DCSO K-9 Bak was used and he alerted to methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia from […]
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The annual Mutt Strut will begin at Lakeview Commons in South Lake Tahoe at noon on Oct. 1 and will end at Tahoe Beach Retreat. There will be music and games, plus a raffle, and a big lake to play in. A big change this year is there are no fees. Tahoe Animal Coalition decided […]
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Expect lane closures on Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe on Friday for paving and striping work. Weather prevented the work on Wednesday and again Thursday, so Highway 50 will be reduced to one lane in each direction from Dunlap Drive to Winnemucca Avenue on Sept. 21 from about 11am-5pm. Work normally ceases at 11am […]
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Westbound Interstate 80 is closed Thursday afternoon because of a 16-vehicle fatal accident. Other injuries have been reported. The freeway is closed at Eagle Lakes. Traffic is being turned around at Kingvale. Snow has closed Ebbetts (Highway 4), Tioga (Highway 120) and Sonora (Higjway 108) passes. Residents on Upper Kingsbury Grade woke up to a […]
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· Tahoe Donner PUD has upgraded its energy-saving lighting programs. Qualifying customers may get up to 32 free LED light bulbs. For more info, call 530.587.3896. · Child Advocates of El Dorado County will receive a $10,000 donation from Cumbre Insurance Services. · North Tahoe Business Association’s fundraiser, Passport to Dining, is set for Nov. […]
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Edwin A. “Jack” Lake died Sept. 13, 2017, at home with his two daughters by his side. He was 86. Named at birth Edwin Aaron Lake, at a very young age he let it be known he wanted to be called Jack. He was born Dec. 6, 1930, in Chickasha, Okla., to Edwin Aaron Lake […]
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