There will be a fundraiser May 17 for the South Lake Tahoe man who sustained third-degree burns to more than 30 percent of his body in a car shop fire last month at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency building. Ron Svetlik, 57, has been at UC Davis Medical Center since the April 25 accident at […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal California voters could approve spending $127 million for projects at Lake Tahoe in a series of ballot measures this year. The Tahoe money would be just a small part of two bond measures that would total $13 billion, including $492 million in spending on projects in the Sierra Nevada. “This […]
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By Kathryn Reed On a 4-1 vote Tuesday the South Lake Tahoe City Council agreed to pay the consultant who was hired to evaluate the city, study the culture and look into the succession plan. The MRG contract has been an issue for months. It started with not being approved in open session last fall […]
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El Dorado County residents can now access more historical and current land management data online, reducing the need to visit county offices in person. In the coming weeks, users will also have online access to an increased level of information and functionality related to the permits to make the process even easier. The TRAKiT system, […]
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· The book launch of Bona Fide Books’ “Permanent Vacation, Volume 2” will be June 13 at 7pm in the Aspen Room at Lake Tahoe Community College. The first volume was highly acclaimed. · Vintage Tahoe Clothing is now open on Ski Run Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe. · Nevada’s minimum wage for employees with […]
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By Tess Townsend, Water Deeply Gaps in funding for water treatment are a major problem in California. Water providers operate independently, relying virtually entirely on customer fees to cover costs. For agencies with scale, money and access to quality water sources, this model works well. But absent those resources, contamination persists for years without resolution. […]
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“It’s All An Act: Three One-Act Plays” will be at Lake Tahoe Community College’s Duke Theatre this June. Each performance will include three one-act plays, with different directors and actors. In “Boise Idaho,” a comedy written by Sean Michael Welch and directed by Kelly Cassidy, the narrator of a story dutifully chronicles the meeting of […]
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Ellen Francis Laughlin Cullen passed away peacefully in her sleep on May 2, 2018. Born Nov. 29, 1920, in San Francisco, she was forever grateful to the Sisters of St. Paul’s elementary and high school for guiding and educating her. She raised her family in South San Francisco and lived the last 40-plus years […]
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By Kathryn Reed Even though Joe Harn and Mike Owen went to El Dorado High School, with four years separating them, friends they are not. Owen wants Harn’s job. June marks the second consecutive election that Owen has tried to unseat Harn as auditor-controller of El Dorado County. Harn is endorsed by District Attorney Vern […]
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By Kathryn Reed Government agencies pay thousands of dollars for recruiting firms to find top level executives. Part of their job is to place the ads in select locations where those types of professionals look for jobs, part is to do the background checks, part is knowing many in this small pool of applicants and […]
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