By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Light up Lake Tahoe may be redefined. There’s a good chance it will be the stars that people will be enjoying this Fourth of July instead of fireworks in South Lake Tahoe. The Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority board of directors at an emergency meeting March 27 decided that if the […]
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By Ed Komenda, Las Vegas Sun It’s the new workplace commandment: Thou shall not Tweet without using common sense. And here’s the reason: Social media have all but replaced email in reaching out to current and would-be customers, co-workers and bosses. You can now transmit a message to the world versus contain it to a […]
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By Lisa Aliferis, KQED-TV California — and 44 other states — received failing grades in an analysis on transparency of health care prices. The report comes from Berkeley-based Catalyst for Payment Reform, and it shows that consumers remain pretty much in the dark if they want to figure out, in advance, what a treatment or […]
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By Kathryn Reed Until the U.S. Forest Service signs off on the report created by El Dorado County regarding the Meyers Landfill, that plot of land on the South Shore is likely to remain an agenda item for the Board of Supervisors. Three issues related to the now defunct landfill off Pioneer Trail were before […]
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By Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy WASHINGTON — In drought-hit California, marijuana growers are feeling the heat, accused of using too much water for their thirsty plants and of polluting streams and rivers with their pesticides and fertilizers. State officials say a pot plant sucks up an average of 6 gallons of water per day, worsening a […]
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The South Lake Tahoe woman involved in the March 22 motorcycle accident has died. Audrey G. Rugamas, 21, died March 26 at Renown Medical Center in Reno. She had been the a passenger on a motorcycle driven by Andrey Gallegos, 20, of Sparks. The motorcycle collided with a pickup in Carson City. — Lake Tahoe […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee Placerville police say that a suspect in a 1992 homicide has been arrested in the Bay Area and booked into El Dorado County Jail. Jorge Luis Ponce Barajas, 40, was arrested by Richmond police on March 20 in Richmond. An arrest warrant had been issued for Barajas in 1992 after […]
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• El Dorado County Fair entry forms are due May 21. • Washoe County sheriff’s Capt. Heidi Howe was elected to serve on the American Jail Association’s board of directors. • Sierra Sotheby’s International Realty is opening a Truckee office in the summer. • The Academic Team at Truckee High School earned the state championship […]
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By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO -– A Senate panel Tuesday advanced one of the three competing proposals for water bond measures, but lawmakers acknowledged that more negotiations will be required to reach a consensus on what to put before voters. Lawmakers have two months to approve a bond measure that would replace an […]
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To the community, Once I popped a bubble filled with carbon dioxide from dry ice and it was very cool! That was at the Tahoe library’s summer program. I love the library. I am home schooled and we get about 75 percent of my books from the library system’s six branches. If there is a […]
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