• The good thing about a wet spring: the Nevada Department of Agriculture forecasts just an average year for the number of Mormon crickets. • At a future South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting the five are going to discuss the merits of changing to a government structure where the mayor is in charge and […]
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The Village at Squaw Valley and Sons of Norway, Snowshoe Thompson Lodge 6-078, are hosting a dedication celebration honoring the Sierra legend Snowshoe Thompson at Squaw Valley at 1pm June 25 in the Events Plaza of The Village at Squaw Valley. The dedication is for the 13-foot copper sculpture of Snowshoe Thompson created by artist […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee So did Democratic legislators accomplish anything on the state budget crisis Wednesday other than protect their paychecks? Probably not. Instead, by whipping a gimmick- and debt-based budget through both legislative houses lickety-split, Democrats appear to be petty and self-serving, thus adding to their already poor public standing. And they may […]
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With three public sessions to get feedback from about what to do with the shuttered Kingsbury Middle School site completed earlier this month, the next step is to get appraisals on the Zephyr Cove site. Douglas County School District Superintendent Lisa Noonan updated the board Tuesday afternoon about what the public had to say and […]
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By Kathryn Reed If an umpire had been in the room, several “players” would have been ejected. And it was a good thing no children were there Thursday night, even though the subject matter was recreation. These grown men don’t all play nice together. What brought them to the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Complex was […]
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Trout Creek in South Lake Tahoe is expected to rise Friday morning to 8.5 feet, near the channel’s capacity. The National Weather Service in Reno said it was at 8.3 feet at 1pm Thursday. Lake Tahoe News saw the marker in the creek at Martin Avenue at 7:50pm June 16 at 8.1 feet. Even though […]
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Within seconds of taking a sip of what she thought was water, Julia Ellis doubled over at the bar at Harveys Lake Tahoe. The casino’s mistake of serving her a highly toxic cleaning solution instead of bottled water resulted in a jury this week rendering a verdict that Ellis be paid $3.25 million in damages […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Drought One of the biggest costs of California’s recent drought went largely unnoticed, according to a report that estimates state ratepayers paid $1.7 billion to replace lost hydropower with natural gas generation that also pumped millions of tons of pollutants into the atmosphere. “Some of the drought’s most direct […]
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By Kathryn Reed Now there’s a state budget, now there’s not. This fiscal gamesmanship California lawmakers are playing may ensure they keep getting a salary, but it is creating an eraser hole in ledgers up and down the state. Lake Tahoe Unified and Lake Tahoe Community College boards of education on June 14 discussed their […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee With local governments facing historically tight times, some are asking whether elected officials should forgo district discretionary funds. In Placer County, two supervisors are asking that their $20,000 in unrestricted funds be tossed back into the general fund. Sacramento County and the cities of Sacramento and Roseville are among the […]
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