The Lahontan Water Quality Control Board will meet Sept. 8 at 9am at Lake Tahoe Community College. There will be a public hearing about the proposed amendments to the Water Quality Control Plan to incorporate the TMDL into the overall plan. The board expects to certify the revised plan at the November meeting. Fine sediment […]
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By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee California legislators collected tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer-funded per diem payments for floor sessions they did not attend this year, records show. Failing to show up for work typically did not hurt lawmakers’ pocketbooks: Only about one of every four absences included the loss of the tax-free $142 […]
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Lake Tahoe Winter Fest celebrates its 16th year on the South Shore this year. Lakeland Village is again the host hotel. Click here for more information.
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By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON — Sipping Rum Runners, listening to live music, ogling all the flesh and maybe dipping into Lake Tahoe. It’s what I did on a regular basis when I first moved to Lake Tahoe right out of college in the late 1980s. It’s what I did when I would come back […]
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Labor Day at Lake Tahoe South Shore is the kickoff to Indian Summer season with fireworks, more warm weather and a multitude of events and entertainment. A special pyrotechnics display highlights the weekend. The fireworks are visible throughout town with numerous vantage points including the Tahoe Queen and M.S. Dixie II paddle-wheelers, Edgewood Tahoe Golf […]
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By Gina Kim, Sacramento Bee There are small moments that make farming worthwhile for 26-year-old Toby Hastings – detaching a ripe Sharlyn melon from the vine with just a slight tug, digging for potatoes and finding nests of them huddled together, snapping the stem of a perfect strawberry. Hastings is in his third season of […]
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By Ashlea Ebeling, Forbes Forget about hiding money offshore from the Internal Revenue Service–unless you want to risk the penalties, back tax bills and threat of prosecution that thousands of American clients of ubs now face. But what about protecting your cash from vexatious litigants, a grasping ex-spouse or pesky creditors? Then offshore trusts are […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal Let it be said that Julie Mitchell-Grove of the Virginia City foothills and Susan Burdick of Washoe Valley do not turn their faces away from dirt. The two women recently participated in a day of trail construction connected with the Tahoe Rim Trail, the 165-mile trail encircling Lake Tahoe. They pulled at […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s one thing to impersonate a living star; it’s another to share a stage with that person. That is exactly what two veterans of Carnival Cabaret did Saturday night. Sean Paul, who is the current Dolly Parton in the female impersonation show at Horizon in Stateline, and Kevin Wiley, who has had […]
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The El Dorado County Health Services Department, Public Health Division in South Lake Tahoe is offering the booster vaccine which protects against pertussis (whooping cough) at low cost during next week’s Tuesday farmers’ market. The vaccine will be available at the Health Department’s booth at the market at the American Legion Hall on 2732 Lake […]
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