By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee A huge boulder that was blocking westbound Highway 50 in the mountains has been cleared from the roadway without dynamiting. About 5am today the huge rock fell onto the single westbound lane of Highway 50 east of Twin Bridges. A California Highway Patrol officer initially said that road crews will […]
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Mia is a beautiful Lynx point Siamese, just more than 2 years old, with spectacular blue eyes. She has been at the shelter since early December, and would love to go home. Mia is friendly and affectionate. Mia is spayed, microchipped, and vaccinated. She is at the El Dorado County Animal Services shelter in Meyers, […]
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• Suzanne Roberts will be giving a reading at Sierra Nevada College in the Environmental Sciences Building (TCES 139) at 7pm April 13. It is free, and there will be complimentary wine and appetizers. She will be putting on a travel writing workshop on April 14 from 9-noon for $50. For more information, email robertss@ltcc.edu. […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the April 7, 2012, Reno Gazette-Journal. Thursday’s agreement between the lieutenant governors of Nevada and California to join forces offers our best hope to lure the Winter Olympics back to Reno-Tahoe, which last played hope to the world’s winter athletes in 1960. Nevada’s Brian Krolicki and California’s Gavin Newsom […]
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By Anne Knowles When Douglas County developed a plan to revitalize its economy, it’s no wonder planners looked to the Minden-Tahoe Airport, which already brings an estimated $30 million into the region annually. “The airport is one of the major economic engines in the community,” said Linda Mae Draper-Hivert, a member of the Minden-Tahoe Airport […]
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By Claudia Buck, Sacramento Bee At a Sacramento job fair last fall, the polished, well-dressed woman went from booth to booth, recruiter to recruiter, passing out résumés, asking about job openings. Not for herself, however. For her son. “‘He just graduated. He has a degree. He’s sharp. He doesn’t know what he wants to do, […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY — State AFL-CIO leader Danny Thompson said his labor group is moving forward with a broad-based business profits tax ballot measure to raise money for education. Thompson, interviewed on the Nevada NewsMakers television program this week, said the proposal will go forward as a petition to amend […]
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The Tahoe Rim Trail Association is participating in the 20th annual American Hiking Society National Trails Day event on June 2. Help the TRTA build trail at Van Sickle Bi-State Park near Stateline. Volunteers of all skill levels and physical abilities are welcome and encouraged to participate. No prior experience necessary. The workday is from […]
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By Jennifer Medina, New York Times SANTA MONICA — For years now, administrators at the community college here have been inundated with woeful tales from students unable to register for the courses they need. Classes they want for essential job training or to fulfill requirements to transfer to four-year universities fill up within hours. Hundreds […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY — Nearly 1,000 state and local government workers, many of them firefighters and police, make more than $200,000 a year when all pay and benefits are counted, according to a 2011 pay analysis published by the Nevada Policy Research Institute. The number of public employees earning $200,000 […]
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