By Steve Kubby Despite the official denials by the city manager and city attorney, criminal wrongdoing by the South Lake Tahoe City Council has already been documented by the grand jury. In its previous investigation into the conduct of the South Lake Tahoe City Council, the El Dorado Grand Jury concluded its report with a […]
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El Dorado County Child Abuse Prevention Council is accepting applications for board membership to fill one vacancy serving at the discretion of the Board of Supervisors. The vacancy is for community representation-community volunteer-civic organization-religious communities. The 15-member council is a legislatively mandated body advising the Board of Supervisors on issues related to prevention intervention and […]
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By Guy Rocha “David Walley built the place as a health resort, the first in Nevada and one of the first in the West,” wrote Basil Woon in the Aug. 30, 1953, edition of Reno’s Nevada State Journal. A long-standing belief is that Walley’s Hot Springs was Nevada’s first geothermal health resort. According to Walley’s […]
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By Loretta Kalb, Sacramento Bee Placer County officials have finished calculating the 2011 value of taxable property in the county and found an average 3 percent decline in value compared with 2010. The loss of $1.6 billion in the county’s assessment roll is a continuation of the downturn that started several years ago, the Placer […]
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By Kathryn Reed Hunger pangs in the outdoors are never a good thing, but especially when the cooler is empty or one was never packed. Tahoe Treats, a division of California Land Management, is operating nine concessions throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin for the U.S. Forest Service. “The limit is when you change the character […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee Seemingly moved by complaints from El Dorado Hills and Cameron Park residents, El Dorado County supervisors unanimously decided Tuesday to postpone a decision on a redistricting map under discussion. However, they also limited further discussion in a way that will thwart the desires of the activists in the western part […]
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Join Tahoe Writers Works on July 26 for Bare Bones Open Mic at 7pm at the Valhalla Boathouse Theatre. Bring your guitar, poem, or bag of tricks, or just enjoy performances by local and visiting writers, comedians and performing artists at the Tallac Historic Site on the South Shore. Bare Bones is free and open […]
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Hilride will be back in South Lake Tahoe on July 24 to present their preliminary design drawings for lower Corral Trail. They have taken the ideas generated during last month’s all-day session and put them down on paper. The day starts at 9am at the U.S. Forest Service office on College Drive to review the […]
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By Kathryn Reed The exact amount of unleaded gasoline leached into the soil at Zephyr Cove Resort may never be known, but officials say there is no threat to drinking water, Lake Tahoe or human health. “The leak is in an underground storage tank,” explained Vinson Guthreau with the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection. His […]
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Reports this afternoon of explosives in Meyers followed by a cadre of sirens was not anything illegal or terrorist driven. The blasts are from Caltrans. Workers blew up two duds left from winter avalanche control work. They were detonated at 12:10pm and 12:20pm near the Flagpole area, according to Caltrans spokeswoman Deanna Shoopman.
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