By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Five veteran El Dorado County sheriff’s investigators, including a detective who worked on the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping case and the teen lovers’ murder saga of Steven Colver and Tylar Witt, have been reassigned to patrol units. The reassignment of nearly half of the sheriff’s detective division has triggered the […]
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May is 31 tidbits about Lake Tahoe News month. LTN tidbit No. 16: It’s T-shirt weather in Tahoe. Do you have your Lake Tahoe News T-shirt? We are giving them away to the first 50 paid subscribers. However, some of those subscribers either already have a shirt or they are not the T-shirt type, which […]
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By Kathryn Reed Another South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting, another questionable bid and contract. With summer having arrived unusually early in Lake Tahoe, people are at the beaches. And these people are hungry. But there is no vendor at El Dorado or Regan beaches because the city again can’t get its act together. The […]
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• Relay for Life, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, is returning to Kahle Community Park in Stateline on Aug. 11. Volunteers are needed. Contact Maryon Tilley at (775) 586.8330 or Gary Newman at (775) 379.5297. • Placer County Auditor-Controller Katherine Martinis has resigned. Assistant Auditor-Controller Andrew C. Sisk was appointed by supervisors to […]
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By Garry Bowen In our most recent Monthly Message from the Mayor, Her Honor Claire Fortier made a serious point for all of us with regards to TRPA’s hallowed threshold program. As TRPA has relied upon those thresholds as justification for so long they are known as sacred cow’ to some of the very people […]
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Bob Dog Pizza in Meyers is having a fundraiser for the South Tahoe Futbol Club, a competitive youth soccer team for ages 10-19. It will be May 16 from 11am-9pm. Twenty-five percent of profits will be donated to the club when people mention the promotion at the time of ordering food on Wednesday. This is […]
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Pesticides will be allowed to be used in Lake Tahoe. That was the decision the state Water Resources Control Board made May 15. While plenty of hoops are in place for anyone wanting to do so, the ruling it ground breaking. The Lahontan Regional Board in December approved the application of pesticides and herbicides in […]
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Robert Hanna, great-great-grandson of John Muir, will give a presentation May 19 from 7-9pm at Unity at the Lake, 1195 Rufus Allen Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. Lake of the Sky Outfitters and Range of Light are sponsoring the event. Free tickets are available at Lake of the Sky Outfitters at the Y in South Lake […]
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By Kathryn Reed Spending more than $20,000 to find a city manager is clearly what the South Lake Tahoe City Council wants to do, even though the electeds agree an internal candidate is more than qualified to do the job. The five sent conflicting messages to the public during the Tuesday afternoon presentation by four […]
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