By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee Kids will not have to wear helmets when they ski or snowboard in California after all. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger applauded a proposed mandatory helmet law for minors Friday but took action that shelved it. The Legislature, in passing the helmet law, stipulated that it would take effect only if a […]
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By John Schumacher, Sacramento Bee Sacramento remains in, but Nevada City is out, and several other changes are likely coming to the 2011 Amgen Tour of California pro cycling race. City Manager Gene Albaugh said Friday he hopes Nevada City, which hosted the start of the 2010 first stage in May, can return to the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists and several other professional ists could probably have a field day analyzing people who have garage sales and the people who go to them. I fell into the former category last Saturday. I’m still baffled why people on vacation go to garage sales. I find them to be the […]
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• The nomination deadline for Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce’s 3rd Annual Blue Ribbon Awards is Oct. 1. • Roadrunner gas station in Meyers is having a birthday party Oct. 1. Check out the website to learn about its pricing program to entice locals to buy local. • Dan Spano, who owns Paradise […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal Their mission is the same: To grow business in Northern Nevada. But with record-high unemployment and the harshest recession since the Great Depression comes the question of cohesion among economic development agencies, as the region continues to compete with other states for commerce. Pessimism in the recently released Sierra Region […]
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By Johnathan L. Wright, Reno Gazette-Journal It all started 25 years ago in a campground in Tahoe City. A small group of food and wine enthusiasts had gathered in a tent to sample the objects of their affection. They shivered as it began to snow. Cut to 2010. The tent is long gone. The Lake […]
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By James Kellogg My labor union supports Proposition 23 for one simple reason: It will protect the jobs of millions of hard-working California men and women. Prop. 23 will temporarily suspend some very expensive, job-killing regulations under the state’s global warming law, AB32 – regulations that even folks advocating immediate implementation of those rules admit […]
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By Kathryn Reed Mediation this week failed to resolve the lawsuit MV Transportation filed against the South Shore’s transit agency and the members in the organization. MV Transportation filed a lawsuit against South Tahoe Area Transit Authority after the agency severed the contract with the Fairfield-based company. MV had signed a three-year contract in summer […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal The Navy is investigating an incident during which two Seahawk helicopters attempting to hover over Lake Tahoe were damaged when they briefly hit the water, a Navy spokesman said Friday. The Navy’s two MH-60 Romeo helicopters, were en route from Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento to Lemoore Naval Air […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee A judge in Placerville suspended the criminal prosecution of accused kidnapper Phillip Garrido after his public defender declared she doubted his mental competency to face trial. The judge ordered a hearing for Oct. 8 on whether to appoint a mental expert to examine the 59-year-old alleged kidnapper of Jaycee Lee […]
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