By Sharon Noguchi, San Jose Mercury News SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised budget omits funding for Democrats’ top priority this year: expanding transitional kindergarten, the public school program to ready 4-year-olds for the rigors of elementary school. With rosy revenue projections, Brown would focus education dollars on repaying money the state borrowed from school […]
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The Wings of Freedom Tour honoring WWII veterans, including the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Nine O Nine WWII Heavy Bomber, Consolidated B-24 Liberator Witchcraft WWII Heavy Bomber and P-51 Mustang fighter, will arrive at Minden-Tahoe Airport at noon on June 2 and will be on display until noon June 4. Ground tours and display hours […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will begin selling firewood permits at the South Shore office on May 19 and at the North Shore office on May 21. Permits cost $20 per cord, with a two-cord minimum and a limit of 10 cords per household. Permits have specific conditions and complete information […]
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By Kathryn Reed An artist is what Ed Laine always wanted to be. But he didn’t expect it to involve a camera. He had majored in art at the University of Oregon, with the idea he would be creating pottery as a living. But life isn’t always predictable. Collecting a hundred bucks a month making […]
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To the community, We have two important items to share: Despite our community’s concerns over public process, the agencies proceeded to hold a meeting [May14] with the Meyers Community Advisory Council (MCAC) without inviting the public. In this meeting, it was stated that contrary to what our community has been told, we cannot truly limit […]
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Highway 50 is scheduled to be closed in both directions from El Dorado Hills Boulevard/Latrobe Road to Bass Lake Road on May 18 for rock blasting work. The closure is scheduled from 6-8am Sunday. In addition, motorists should expect the Latrobe Road/El Dorado Hills Boulevard eastbound on-ramp to Highway 50 and Bass Lake Road westbound […]
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To the community, For the price of for lattes or four beers or three glasses of wine a year, voters can keep our library open five days a week. Many of us are fortunate enough to have home computers and Internet, which means that we can download audio books and ebooks for no cost with […]
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By Sherrilyn Ifill, MSNBC May 17 marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the constitutional moment that compelled our country to reckon with its history and confront the unfulfilled promise of equality first articulated in our founding documents. Brown literally changed America. It was a mid-20th century […]
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By Charlie Brennan, Boulder Camera Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against one of three men charged in a February 2013 triple murder that claimed the life of three men, the Sonoma County district attorney announced. Investigators allege that Mark Cappello, 47, of Central City, Colo., was the triggerman in a marijuana deal gone awry. […]
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A Carson City man was arrested Friday morning in connection to a bank robbery in Kings Beach. Brent Muir, 55, allegedly walked into the Plumas Bank about 8:30am May 16 with a handgun and left with an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspect fled in a tan 2008 Chevrolet Impala headed toward Sand Harbor, where […]
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