“A little bit country and a little bit rock n’ roll” — that’s the idea behind the theme for the 2011 El Dorado County Fair coming to the fairgrounds in Placerville for four days over Fathers Day weekend, June 16-19. El Dorado County marks its 152nd year of celebrating the people, agriculture, art, music, natural […]
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The 49th annual Lake Valley Firefighters Ball is June 18 at 8pm at MontBleu in Stateline. Pop Fiction is the band for the night. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. They are available from a firefighter or at stations 6 or 7. Proceeds go to the volunteer association to be spent on […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released documents Tuesday acknowledging it was responsible for using a racially inflammatory version of the name Negro Hill when that town’s cemetery was moved to El Dorado Hills to make way for Folsom Lake in 1954. Negro Hill’s old cemetery – on the land […]
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By Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times Her son is Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan who was attacked in a Dodger Stadium parking lot. As he lies in a coma, his chance of survival ‘slim,’ she wants him to know she’ll be his mother forever. Every day, she talks to her son. Doctors give […]
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Updated: May 8 at 9:24am: It’s sunny now in South Lake Tahoe. For those who have forgotten what falling snow looks like can just look outside their windows in South Lake Tahoe. A deep area of low pressure is sitting over the Lake Tahoe Basin. It will be here through Monday. The National Weather Service […]
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• Kirkwood’s Mountain Bike Park opens for weekends starting July 2. • Jeannie Conner is bringing her 20 years of nonprofit leadership from the Silicon Valley to be executive director of the Squaw Valley Institute. • For information about Placer County’s redistricting plans, go online. • The North Shore’s reliable, consistent and non-bankrupt bus service […]
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The driving force behind Mother’s Day was Anna Jarvis, who organized observances in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia on May 10, 1908. As the annual celebration became popular around the country, Jarvis asked members of Congress to set aside a day to honor mothers. She finally succeeded in 1914, when Congress designated the second Sunday in […]
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Lukins Brothers Water Company users are about to see higher bills as the company secures a $2 million loan to begin a multi-year improvement plan. Lukins is the water provider for the Mikasa center at the Y in South Lake Tahoe and then for people living on the east side of Emerald Bay Road. The […]
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By Kara LaPoint, Reno Gazette-Journal When the Washoe Regional Transportation Commission and Nevada Department of Transportation have questions about efficiencies for roadway maintenance, they don’t have far to go for advice. A top-notch resource is right at their fingertips: the University of Nevada, Reno’s Pavements/Materials Engineering program. While Pavements/Materials Engineering at UNR is a nationally […]
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