The 11th annual Truckee Day townwide street clean up and community block party is June 7. Check in stations will open at 8am. Get there early to get materials, volunteer T-shirt, and free lunch ticket. Preregistration is not required. After the street clean up, volunteers will head to Truckee Regional Park for a townwide block […]
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By Kathryn Reed Eating well and eating healthfully are two completely different things. My tennis team eats well. We bring an array of edibles to each home match to share with our opponents. On Sunday I chose to bring the sweet treat. I had made the brownies the night before, but had not sampled them […]
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The Douglas County Public Library’s spring book sale is May 16 from 3-8pm, May 17 from 9am-5pm and May 18 from 9am-2pm. The sale will be at the C.V.I.C. Hall, 1602 Esmeralda Ave. in Minden. Thousands of used books and audio books will be for sale; DVDs and music CDs will also be available. Friends […]
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Enough El Dorado County employees are so unhappy with their work environment it prompted the Board of Supervisors to launch an investigation. Non-equal employment opportunity violations will be looked into. Sixty-three percent of the staff participated in the cultural assessment survey conducted by Van Dermyden Maddux Law Corporation. Out of the 1,228 current and former […]
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Barton Foundation’s annual Tiki Tee Off Golf Tournament and Lei Up Luau is June 26. All proceeds benefit the Barton Foundation’s Community Health Endowment. Prices vary. The event is at Lake Tahoe Golf Course in Meyers. The tournament includes course contests and on-hole libations, with a pig roast, Hawaiian buffet, tiki drinks, and raffle prizes […]
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Highway 50 on May 4 will be closed in both directions from El Dorado Hills Boulevard/Latrobe Road to Bass Lake Road for blasting work. The closure is scheduled from 6-8am. During this time traffic will be routed through Serrano Parkway. Motorists traveling east from El Dorado Hills will detour on El Dorado Hills Boulevard to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Does news matter? Yes. Do the media matter? Depends who you ask. Does where you get your news from matter? Depends who you ask. Do people still care about unbiased news? Not as much as they once did. ——— Today is World Press Freedom Day. The UN General Assembly designated May 3 […]
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South Lake Tahoe police officers have released photos from the surveillance video of the four suspects in the April 29 burglary at Simpson’s Jewelers. The full story is here.
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Nineteen people on the South Shore face charges from an April 30 undercover sting by the the California Contractors State License Board and Nevada State Contractors Board. Dubbed Border Blitz, it snared 11 people on the California side for illegal contracting charges and eight in Nevada. Three caught in Nevada are licensed contractors in California. […]
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By Tony Biasotti, Columbia Journalism Review It’s been a routine for generations of legal beat reporters: Every weekday afternoon, at courthouses across the United States, a reporter steps behind the records counter and thumbs through the lawsuits filed that day, looking for news. This custom is endangered, though, and not just because files have moved […]
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