By Janet McDougall I read the recent article “Law of the Sand – Rules governing public access to Tahoe shore murky at best” that recently appeared in the Tahoe Daily Tribune and found myself deeply frustrated. I immediately sent a letter to the editor of the Tribune attempting to clear up several factual problems with […]
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By Kathryn Reed Measure S bonds are going from tax-exempt status to taxable. At least that is what South Lake Tahoe wants done with them. But the city is just one-third of the equation. The joint powers authority that oversees the voter approved recreation measure must vote on the change for it to go forward. […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Placerville Mayor David Machado, facing a political scandal and criminal charges over an alleged cover-up of his property dealings, was stripped of his title Tuesday night in a unanimous vote of his City Council colleagues. The embattled Machado was not the Placerville Town Hall as the other four members voted […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal As crews mop up smoldering terrain torched by one of this summer’s largest wildfires, experts are readying efforts to prevent erosion and restore a charred landscape. More than 3,800 acres — roughly six-square miles — were burned by the Ray May Fire in southern Douglas County. It’s a checkerboard of […]
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Meyers publisher and editor, Kim Wyatt, will be speaking about her press, Bona Fide Books, as well as workshops and special events she will be hosting. Wyatt will speak at the South Lake Tahoe Branch Library Sept. 14. The library is at 1000 Rufus Allen Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. For additional information, call (530) 573.3185.
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By Gus Thomson, Auburn Journal State Sen. Ted Gaines is planning to pull up stakes in the wake of a redistricting change that places his Roseville home inside fellow Republican Sen. Doug LaMalfa’s District 4. Gaines said that he’ll have to move at least a quarter mile to remain in District 1 and meet state […]
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By Susanne Rust, California Watch Under pressure from the American Chemistry Council, a lobbying group for the plastics industry, schools officials in California edited a new environmental curriculum to include positive messages about plastic shopping bags, interviews and documents show. The rewritten textbooks and teachers’ guides coincided with a public relations and lobbying effort by […]
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By Michael Doyle, Sacramento Bee WASHINGTON – California and other states seeking to curtail funeral protests are following a politically popular but legally disputable path. Supreme Court, here they come. Last week, California lawmakers joined their counterparts in Arizona, Illinois and other states in passing new restrictions on protests at funerals. In particular, legislators hope […]
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By Matt Kawahara, Sacramento Bee When federal agents finally tracked down William Walter Asher III in Salida last week, the 66-year-old was going by an assumed name, retired after years working for trucking companies, and living with a woman who apparently had no idea he’d been running from the law for 36 years. Asher, who […]
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Publisher’s note: This is from the August 1976 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. When Matthew C. Gardner (whose name has been given to Gardnerville, Nevada and to Gardner Mountain and Gardner Street in South Lake Tahoe) was forced into bankruptcy, his railroad and lumbering operations ceased. His land holdings of approximately 600 acres were purchased […]
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