The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with Douglas County Social Services and a community task force will be starting Caring Neighbors on Jan. 11. Trained sheriff’s volunteers who have completed background checks will be calling on seniors who live in Douglas County. The client can have a phone call once or twice a week or […]
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· Psychic Rebecca Fearing will be at The Loft in South Lake Tahoe on Jan. 18 at 7:30pm. · Young Adult Writers’ Meetup: Jan. 7 and Jan. 21 from 3-4pm at the South Lake Tahoe Library. Meet with fellow writers for an afternoon of socializing, discussion, and writing. Laptops available for use in the library. […]
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By Kathryn Reed It has been well documented that to get a job in El Dorado County it pays to know who is doing the hiring. Last month the Board of Supervisors reviewed a list of contracts of $64,000 or less signed by the chief administrative officer. According to board policy, these contracts are not […]
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To the community, My wife and I have been residents in Tahoma since 2001. For the last several years the snow removal/plow has done a questionable job of clearing our street. They do a fine job of either plowing us in or plowing us out of our driveway. The plows have a drop gate that […]
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Steven Gross and Aparna Reddy of Porter Simon will be giving a presentation Jan. 19 about California’s new labor laws for 2017. The talk is presented by the Truckee Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Sierra Business Council’s Small Business Development Center. It is from 8:30am-noon at the Truckee Airport. Cost is $55 for chamber members […]
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Spooner Summit between Carson City and Highway 28 was temporarily closed this morning because of multiple spinouts. As of 8:43am Jan. 4 it had reopened. “People were not following the chain or snow tire requirements,” Meg Ragonese with the Nevada Department of Transportation told Lake Tahoe News. At the time of the closure only the […]
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For the second straight day the weather has forced the closure of schools in the Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District. Washoe County school in Incline Village have also been canceled for Jan. 4. A winter storm warning remains in effect for the Lake Tahoe Basin through 4am Jan. 5. Another 6 to 12 of snow could […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION – While the water content of the Sierra snowpack is below average for this time of year, the October rains have reservoirs in California higher than most Januarys, especially considering the state is coming out of five years of drought. No one is saying the drought is over, but the […]
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By Robert H. Nelson, High Country News Many Californians woke up the night after the presidential election thinking that they were living in a different country. A few felt so alienated that they publicly raised the possibility of seceding from the United States. There is no constitutional way, however, to do this. But there is a less […]
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By Ginger Hervey, High Country News Nate Storey looked out his window in China at agricultural workers laboriously threshing grain by hand. “There has to be a better way to do this,” he thought. It was 2001, and the Cheyenne, Wyo., native was working in a Chinese orphanage, trying to decide what he wanted to […]
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