Students in Douglas County will start some days 90 minutes later than the other days. The purpose is to give teachers more time to strategize about what they are doing regarding student achievement. “The late start days are instrumental in providing teachers and administrators time to look at data they have on student performance and […]
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By Vicki Gonzalez, KCRA-TV Heavenly Mountain Resort honored a longtime employee and skier by dedicating a special portion of the mountain just shy of his 97th birthday. Martin Hollay moved to South Lake Tahoe in 1957, building his home up the street from the resort. The 96-year-old still skis at Heavenly, completing 100 runs last […]
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By Kathryn Reed After two years of silence, El Dorado County has released the final draft of the Meyers Area Plan. This is the fourth version. It was almost like all sides needed a cooling off period. Years of raucous meetings did more to divide than to unite the community. What most could agree on […]
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By Shawn Hubler, Sacramento Bee Last week, as Los Angeles burned, San Francisco baked, Houston reeled amid biblical flooding and the Florida Keys braced for Hurricane Irma, David W. Titley picked up his phone on the other side of the country and cut to the chase. “Forty north,” the Penn State University meteorology professor of […]
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By Mark Austin, Digital Trends A study from New York University paints a grim picture for the future of radio. Larry Miller, head of the Steinhart Music Business Program, says that traditional radio, by failing to adapt to the rise of digital formats, has not engaged with Generation Z — people born after 1995. He […]
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On a 3-2 vote on Sept. 7, Douglas County Manager Larry Werner’s contract was extended to Dec. 31, 2019. Commissioners Larry Walsh and Dave Nelson were the dissenters. Walsh wanted the term to go through Dec. 31, 2018. Nelson wants to hire a permanent county manager. Werner has been at the helm of the county […]
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By Dan Elliott, AP Acrid yellow smoke clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire in the Columbia River Gorge rains ash on Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to the ground in Montana’s Glacier National Park. Wildfires are chewing across dried-out Western forests and grassland, putting 2017 on track […]
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By Nic Abelow Today’s “modern family” is decidedly nontraditional. According to the latest Census data, less than 25 percent of American households currently consist of married couples with dependent children, while more than 40 percent of unmarried couples have children under the age of 18. Even the term “married” can be defined differently depending on […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Five years after a 15-year-old El Dorado High School student died from ingesting a hallucinogenic drug, a Camino man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of possessing and distributing a counterfeit version of LSD that caused the death. Elijah Lee Richter faces the federal charges […]
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By Aaron Mendelson, KPCC This year, urban water use has settled into a pattern: Californians are consuming more water than in 2015 and 2016, when mandatory measures were in place to cut down on use during a five-year drought. At the same time, water use has remained below the levels reported in 2013 and 2014, […]
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