By Kathryn Reed Both ends of the lake will be having erosion control measures put in thanks to grants provided by the California Tahoe Conservancy. At the CTC’s meeting this month the board unanimously agreed to spend up to $1.675 million on the second phase of the Al Tahoe Erosion Control Project in South Lake […]
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Water rates in Kingsbury General Improvement District are proposed to go up 3.08 percent starting July 1. Information about the proposal is available at 160 Pineridge Drive, Stateline. There will also be a public meeting June 21 at 6pm at the same address. The board is expected to vote on the issue that night. The […]
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Kirkwood Mountain Classic at the Kirkwood Ski Area/Bike Park is July 23. This cross country race is part of the Sierra Cup Mountain Bike Series. All proceeds from this event go to TAMBA. The race will also include a Le Mans start Super-D race in the afternoon.
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Many campgrounds and recreation sites within the Tahoe National Forest will be open for Memorial Day, however snow is expected to keep some of the more popular sites closed until later in the summer. “Our recreation crews and campground concessionaires have been working hard to get the campgrounds ready for the Memorial Day weekend,” Tom […]
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By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times Hit the snooze on that ecological doomsday clock for a minute: The world’s species may not be going extinct quite as fast as we thought they were. Scientists may be overestimating the crisis by as much as 160 percent, according to a recent study. The research was published online […]
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By Vicki Barber Tra-la, it’s May, the lusty month of May. Remember the song from “Camelot”? Yes, it is May. El Dorado County may not be quite Camelot, but for a large number of graduating students it is a wonderful place to be this May. Students will be graduating from our high schools and moving […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe education officials are cautiously optimistic Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget will stay intact as presented earlier this month – at least when it comes to dollars for schools. The Friday before Brown released his proposal on May 16 all the predictions were dire. Lake Tahoe Unified School District CFO Deb […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Supervisors in El Dorado County voted Tuesday to right a historic wrong by replacing 36 cemetery headstones that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers labeled with a racist slur in 1954. When the Corps built Folsom Dam on the American River that year, it moved remains from a cemetery in […]
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Join the Tahoe Rim Trail Association for American Hiking Society’s 19th annual National Trails Day event on June 4. Celebrate the start of the trail season by volunteering to build trail or by learning more about Leave No Trace principles. The event begins at Van Sickle Bi-State Park off Lake Parkway in South Lake Tahoe. […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal Those little paper tickets showing slot machine winnings can add up to big numbers, and the state wants a bite of the bounty that’s never cashed in. Once-coin-filled slot machines are now ticket-in, ticket-out cash-less games, and jackpots that used to clang into the coin bins now are spit out […]
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