By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee The state budget’s 800-pound gorilla is the task of educating 6 million elementary and high school students. It consumes between 35 and 40 percent of the general fund. The money is allocated by a bizarre combination of power politics and a constitutional provision so complex that only a few in […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Tahoe South. It’s a place. It’s an attitude. It’s a feeling. It’s a people. It is the South Shore. “We know who we are. Now everyone else will too.” That was the tagline in a promotional video shown at Thursday’s Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority board meeting. The fast-moving segment touched […]
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A draft environmental impact statement that analyzes Rubicon Trail resource improvements and issuing an easement to El Dorado County for the operation and maintenance of the road is available for public review and comment. Copies of the draft EIS are available on the Eldorado National Forest website and by contacting the Eldorado National Forest Supervisor’s […]
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Ann Thennes is hosting the 8th annual Holiday Home Show Dec. 10 from 10am-4pm. This festive gathering featuring sales of gift items from local artists and crafters. Everyone is welcome. Artists include Ann Thennes (gourd creations), Don Hodgkin (fine wood furniture), RearView Miracles (crystal hangings and healing jewelry), Rex Perschnik (carved wooden ornaments), and Tahoe […]
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Learn to fold your own origami figures using traditional paper folding techniques on Jan. 5 at 2pm at the South Lake Tahoe branch of the El Dorado County Library. Friends of the Library will supply the materials. The library is at 1000 Rufus Allen Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. For more information, call (530) 573.3185.
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The South Lake Tahoe Fire Department holiday truck leaves Station 2 at 5pm to make its rounds. Here is the schedule: Dec. 10 – Tahoe Keys-Venice Dec. 11 — Glenwood Dec. 12 – Tahoe Keys-State Streets Dec. 13 – Barton-Tahoe Island Dec. 14 – South Y-Tata Dec. 15 – Al Tahoe Boulevard Dec. 16 – […]
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Officers believe the call they received Dec. 7 about a body near a truck in the Gardnerville Cemetery came from the man who was eventually fatally shot by a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy. “Suspect David Pendleton’s cell phone, which was later recovered at the scene, revealed that a call was made to the Douglas County […]
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By Kathryn Reed Joseph Scanio, the South Lake Tahoe man who served more than three years in federal prison on child pornography charges, will be spending another six months behind bars. U.S. District Court Judge Morrison England Jr. today in Sacramento sentenced Scanio for eight probation violations. Where he will serve his time has not […]
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By KRNV-TV WASHINGTON – Sen. Harry Reid today hailed passage of the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act of 2011 out of the Environment and Public Works Committee. The act, which Reid sponsored in 2009, would restore and protect the ecological integrity of Lake Tahoe and the Tahoe Basin. This year, the Nevada Democrat is co-sponsoring the […]
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Award-winning director Christian Calderon has launched a new concept in real estate videos — the industry’s first short film featuring a Hollywood actress. And according to Calderon, the whole concept of producing shorts for real estate using an actress with a platform, rather than a real estate agent, also increases the chance of the piece […]
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