By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON – The Tahoe Tallac Association board and staff could take some pointers from the characters on stage at the Boathouse Theatre. The five woman starring in the play “Dixie Swim Club” are fabulous in how they capture the nuances of a friendship born in college that lasts into their 70s […]
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By Robert Salonga, Contra Costa Times A newly released report reads like a laundry list of oversights by agents charged with monitoring Phillip Garrido’s federal parole in the 1990s, when he kidnapped and began his 18-year imprisonment of Jaycee Dugard. The confidential review released Friday by James Ware, chief district judge for the Bay Area, […]
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By Adam Blauert, Sacramento Bee To John Muir, the Sierra Nevada was “The Range of Light.” This year, it has become “The Range of Water.” The waterfalls are better than ever. Creeks and rivers are running higher and faster than they have in years. Meadows are flooded and water plummets, splashes and drips down nearly […]
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By Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee Sacramento-area district attorneys will get more than $1.4 million in state grants to fight workers compensation insurance fraud in 2011-2012, the state Insurance Commissioner’s office announced Tuesday. Sacramento County will receive $900,000. El Dorado County was awarded $330,000. Yolo County will get $245,960. The grant awards total $32 million to […]
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By Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times It was his green tongue that helped give away Jimmy Candido Flores when police arrived at the fatal accident scene near Chico. Flores had run off the road and killed a jogger, Carrie Jean Holliman, a 56-year-old Chico elementary school teacher. California Highway Patrol officers thought he might be […]
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Caltrans is alerting motorists that pavement repairs may delay traffic in Truckee the week of July 11 crews repair pavement at various locations on highways 89 and 267. Motorists can expect traffic controls on Highway 89 at Deerfield Drive from 6am to 6pm Monday through Wednesday while works crews replace damaged asphalt in the intersection. […]
Read moreSouth Lake Tahoe is beginning to schedule neighborhood meetings. The city wants to partner with local citizens to help increase communication with neighbors and businesses to help facilitate improvements in their neighborhoods. The July 20 meeting is from 6:30-8pm for the neighborhoods of Al Tahoe, Bijou Pines and Pioneer Village at the Senior Center (3050 […]
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A free medical clinic will be at Gateway Urgent Care at 11105 Donner Pass Road in Truckee on July 23 from 8am-noon. Patients will be seen on a first-come, first-serve basis and receive consultations for all medical issues. X-rays and medications are not included. Dennis Chez, owner and sole doctor of Gateway Urgent Care, has […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — The Nevada Tax Commission has won a procedural battle with Caesars Entertainment related to the casino company’s pursuit of $8.6 million tax refund. Caesars sued the state, arguing it should not have paid tax on the aircraft it purchased in 2006 because the planes’ first flights […]
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Tahoe City’s inaugural Farm to Table Dinner is July 19 from 6-9pm at Commons Beach. More in formation is online.
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