By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee The $100,000 pension club is growing fast. Almost 9,000 retirees in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System receive at least $100,000 in annual benefits, more than quadruple the number getting that much during 2005, according to a Bee review of CalPERS data. Collectively, these pensioners will receive about $1.1 billion […]
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Red Hut on Ski Run Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe is having a burger night June 15 from 5-8pm for Tahoe Douglas Rotary. Pay $10 for dinner and you will be supporting community projects in the area. You get a burger, homemade chips and a fountain soda.
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National Trails Day is June 2. Events are throughout the United States. For more information, go online.
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee The last time Nancy Garrido will ever see her husband likely came at 9:26 a.m. Thursday, as she was being escorted out of a Placerville courtroom and headed off to begin her 36-year prison sentence. “Love you,” she mouthed to Phillip Garrido, who sat shackled in the courtroom jury box […]
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By Tom Haydon, Star-Ledger In August 1984, after Nancy Dunsavage heard that a judge in Somerville had awarded temporary custody of their 6-year-old daughter to her ex-husband, the mother fled the state with the child. Friday, in the same courthouse, Dunsavage pleaded guilty to interfering with custody and was sentenced to 18 days, the length […]
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By Bonnie Matton, Reno Gazette-Journal Ecotourism isn’t a word one hears often in reference to Lyon County, but a significant number of people are willing to travel thousands of miles to visit the area in search of wild horses. I recently had the privilege of taking two groups of tourists out to see wild horses […]
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By Kathy Garvey, Daily Democrat Professor James R. Carey knows that the value of seminars is invaluable. When the UC Davis entomology professor chaired the UC Systemwide Committee on Research Policy, he called for a strategic approach to record, broadcast and archive the hundreds of seminars that take place weekly on the 10 UC campuses. […]
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Douglas County’s Minden-Tahoe Airport is preparing to host a series of landmark test flights in spring and summer 2012 by the Perlan Project. The project, currently in phase two, has a goal of designing and building a high-altitude research glider to study the meteorological impact of a jet stream that circles the Polar Regions during […]
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Camp Concord is looking to make improvements to its facilities on the outskirts of South Lake Tahoe. The Bay Area city operates a camp near the trailhead for Mount Tallac. Bids are being taken on making the family bathhouse compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Improvements will be made to the men’s and women’s […]
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Dirk Yuricich will show his new photo series Aspen Lupine at the Ski Run Marina gallery. The opening reception is June 8 from 5-8pm. Refreshments will be served and all attendees can take part in a free raffle to win a matted photograph of one of the Aspen Lupine images. The Aspen Lupine opening reception […]
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