By Ryan Sabalow, Sacramento Bee It wasn’t just generous spring rains filling north-state reservoirs that had California’s urban water districts pushing back so hard against mandatory water cuts this year. As water use plummeted because of the statewide conservation orders implemented last summer, many water agencies found themselves struggling to cover operating costs. Less water […]
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By Drew Himmelstein, J Weekly When Corinne Hindes was 11, she saw a man in her hometown of Walnut Creek wearing nothing but a T-shirt and a pair of ripped jeans on the coldest day of the year. She had started to notice the homeless people in her area that year, but seeing this man […]
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Larry Ford will become Virgil Earp in a Chautauqua event July 20 at the Dangberg Ranch in Minden. Earp and his brother, Wyatt Earp, arrived in Tombstone, Ariz., in June 1881, where Virgil was appointed city marshal. This is where the gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place. In 1904, the brothers joined in the boomtown […]
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By Seth A. Richardson, Reno Gazette-Journal Several of Nevada’s top Republican elected officials are skipping the Republican National Convention this year, including the entire GOP congressional delegation and Gov. Brian Sandoval. Many Republicans nationwide have declined to attend the July 18-21 convention in Cleveland, some of whom outright cite presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump as […]
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· Lake Tahoe Boys & Girls Club’s 23rd annual golf tournament will be Oct. 10 at Edgewood Tahoe in Stateline. The first tee-off will be at 8am with a shotgun start. Breakfast and dinner will be provided for all players. Dinner tickets are available for purchase for friends and family. For more info, email kongoy@bgclt.org […]
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Nevada law enforcement agencies statewide will be focusing on distracted drivers from July 22-Aug. 6. Douglas County Sheriff’s Office will be working diligently to urge motorists to keep their eyes on the road and put away cell phones or other items that cause distractions. “Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road […]
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Longtime South Lake Tahoe resident Johanna “JoJo” Conroy died July 9, 2016, after a 3½-year battle with brain cancer. She was 65. She was born July 24, 1950, and grew up in Alhambra as the youngest of four children. The summer before her senior year of high school JoJo lived in Tahoe with her sister […]
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By Susan Wood The American Century Championship at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course could be called a quasi battle of the sexes this year. That’s because the women golfers are coming out in full force this year when the premier golf tournament is in play July 19-24. Three big guns in the world of golf will […]
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By Vern Pierson In 1972, Phillip Garrido drugged and raped a 14 year old girl in Contra Costa County. In June 1976 in South Lake Tahoe, Garrido talked his 19 year old victim into his car, then handcuffed her and raped her. On Nov. 22, 1976, at approximately 6:30pm in South Lake Tahoe he talked his 25 […]
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By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee Being a California gun owner just got more complicated. Bolstering a body of firearms laws already considered among the nation’s strongest, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a half-dozen bills to regulate ammunition sales, ban large-capacity clips and quick-reloading devices and clamp down on lending weapons, among other things. Some […]
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