Sept. 16 is the deadline for people to apply for the vacancy on the Lake Tahoe Unified School District board that was created when Ginger Nicolay-Davis resigned. Nicolay-Davis is now an employee of the district’s so she couldn’t be on the board. She left the board last month to be a speech specialist. Those interested […]
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Lilburn “Jonesy” Jones died Sept. 4, 2016. He was 91. He was in Newburyport, Mass., on March 27, 1925, to G. Howard Murley and Louise May Jones. Jonesy was an honored member of the Tenth Mountain Division who served in Italy during World War II. As a sergeant, he was proud to have brought all […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked candidates for South Lake Tahoe City Council, Lake Tahoe Community College, Lake Tahoe Unified School District, Douglas County School District, South Tahoe Public Utility District and Lake Valley Fire Protection District a series of questions. We are running the responses in the order received. All profiles may be found […]
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By Cedric Yeh Three months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress officially charged the Smithsonian and the National Museum of American History with collecting and preserving artifacts that would tell the story of that day. But where to start? If you were given the task, what objects would you collect? Curators working at […]
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By Margaret Guroff Before there were cars, America’s country roads were unpaved, and they were abysmal. Back then, roads were so unreliable for travelers that most state maps didn’t even show[1] them. This all started to change when early cyclists came together to transform some U.S. travel routes, and lay the groundwork for the interstate […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Millions of dollars meant to help distressed Nevada homeowners stay in their homes at the height of the recession were squandered by a state contractor on excessive rent, holiday parties, employee gift cards and other lavishness, according to a scathing federal audit released Friday. The 60-page […]
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An equipment failure is being blamed for the power outage in the Stateline area this evening. NV Energy expects the lights to come back on about 9:30pm Sept. 10. The power has been out since 6pm. More than 2,400 customers are affected. A few customers in the Round Hill-Zephyr Cove areas are also without out […]
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By Wes Siler, Outside In Oregon, two elderly men are being billed $37 million for a fire the state says they started with their lawn mowers. In California, a homeowner is being charged $25 million for a fire authorities claim was sparked by a known electrical problem at his house. Could you be stuck with a […]
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A suspected drunken driver struck a group of cyclists riding west on Highway 50 near Lodi Avenue in South Lake Tahoe this morning. The two cyclists who were hit refused medical treatment. The driver of the small Ford SUV, according to a witness, switched lanes, accelerated and never stopped to see what he had done. […]
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Jeremy Meyers, the ex-superintendent of El Dorado County Office of Education who had two DUIs in a year, has employment at a West Slope school for this entire year. At the Sept. 8 board meeting the Black Oak Mine Unified School District board in Georgetown agreed to hire Meyers to be principal of Golden Sierra Junior Senior […]
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