Mac is a sweet happy 3-year-old boy who has been at the shelter for almost six weeks. He is a lot of fun and has good manners, but he is starting to become barky after being in the shelter for so long. He does well with most other dogs and has lived with cats. He […]
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By Anita Chabria, Sacramento Bee More than 1,700 people turned out Saturday morning at an El Dorado Hills high school to once again let Republican Rep. Tom McClintock know how they feel about GOP policies and his support of President Trump. Like three other town halls McClintock has hosted in the past month, the majority […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is accepting public comment for the Off-Highway Vehicle Cooperative Funds grant application submitted to the state. The OHMVR grants would provide for OHV safety and education information, resource and use monitoring, and site and trail maintenance in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The 30-day grant application comment […]
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South Lake Tahoe resident Kerry Gross is embarking on a project to tell the stories of courageous women. Women Who Dare is a cross-country interview project. Gross is looking for recommendations of inspirational women for inclusion in a forthcoming podcast. Suggestions will be accepted until March 31. Gross will plan a route across to reaching […]
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By Kurt Snibbe, San Jose Mercury News The governor’s office said damage to roads in the first two months of 2017 will cost $595 million to repair. That is a small portion of the more than $137 billion the state needs to repair its crumbling transportation infrastructure. California is trying to climb out of a […]
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· Time to load up on Thin Mints and other Girl Scout cookies. Booths sales run until April 2. Girls will be at Safeway and Grocery Outlet in South Lake Tahoe on Fridays from 4-6pm and Saturdays and Sundays from 10am-4pm. Each box is $5, with about $4 of that money going to support local, life-changing programming […]
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Snow continues to accumulate on Tahoe-Truckee area roads, which has educators calling for another snow day. Schools in Lake Tahoe Unified and Tahoe-Truckee Unified are closed on March 6. Douglas County is delayed by 90 minutes and is using main bus stops only. Incline Village schools are on a two-hour delay. The winter storm warning […]
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By Kathryn Reed Even though Nadia Guerriero is well versed in event planning, a mega-winter pushing 600 inches of snow to date is one event she didn’t plan for. “For so many years the conversation was how to keep our trails open, how to make sure we had enough snow. Now it is where do […]
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By Andrew J. Pridgen A couple weeks ago, the marketing office at Squaw Valley came up with a strange and context-free Instagram rant about silencing the “trolls and haters” on their “corner” of the internet. By way of background, the post was sparked by a number of incidents of questions on the social medias (as […]
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By Seth A. Richardson, Reno Gazette-Journal With Republican President Trump set to increase deportations of undocumented immigrants nationwide, a Democratic state lawmaker has plans to restrict how and when local law enforcement can be involved. Trump has ramped up talks of increasing deportations in recent weeks and directed his administration to more thoroughly enforce immigration laws. […]
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