El Dorado County Health Services Department, Public Health Division, is offering low cost back-to-school immunizations for children entering kindergarten. Health Services can provide all childhood vaccinations required for school entry, including those that protect against the following: * Polio * Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis/Whooping Cough (DTaP) * Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) * Varicella (Chicken Pox) * […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College is hoping one of the handful of people expected to be interviewed Aug. 11 for the job of interim president will be able to start by Sept. 1. Susan Middleton, vice president of Academic Affairs and Student Services, has been the acting president since Paul Killpatrick left earlier […]
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By Kathryn Reed It seems like as the weather gets warmer, I want to eat less or not at all. The less part wouldn’t hurt me, the not at all isn’t the healthiest of choices. There are just those days when all the “regulars” sound boring and opening a cookbook sounds way too involved. When […]
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To the community, A lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California on behalf of the Friends of Hope Valley in an effort to reassert the public’s right to access Pleasant Valley in Alpine County. Past trail users are being sought to appear as witnesses in the […]
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The Douglas County Public Library in Zephyr Cove is having a pirate party on Aug. 6 at 1:30pm. Children can make a pirate treasure chest and ice-cream-in-a-can. Children should bring their own ice cream toppings such as chocolate sauce, cherries, and whipped cream. Bring small clear coffee can lids (13-oz. coffee cans) if you have […]
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Nevada State Parks invites the public to Mormon Station State Historic Park at 10am July 31 to hear a free presentation on “Women’s Voices on the Overland Trail.” The 45-minute presentation will feature stories from women’s diaries and reminiscences of early pioneers who traveled westward on the trail. These accounts, which pay special attention to […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County pulled its two buses out of the BlueGo fleet Wednesday, creating an unstable situation for on-call riders of the public transit system. “Because everything happened late (Tuesday) I’m not sure about the on-call services or what is being offered to those folks,” county Supervisor Norma Santiago told Lake Tahoe […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal Reno-Tahoe International Airport is losing six Southwest Airlines flights this fall as part of nationwide cutbacks totaling 106, the Las Vegas Sun reported Wednesday, though an airport spokesman said he hopes the Reno flights eventually will resume. As part of a schedule change by Southwest, Reno is losing six flights with one […]
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By Kara LaPoint, Reno Gazette-Journal Squaw Valley USA introduced the world to Lake Tahoe when the then-tiny resort hosted the 1960 Winter Games. Alex Cushing made those Games happen after starting Squaw Valley Development Company in 1949 and opening the ski resort. He would continue to develop the Squaw into one of America’s premier ski […]
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By Shane Goldmacher, Los Angeles Times Most state workers will again face unpaid furloughs again in August under an executive order imposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, said a union official who was briefed on the plan by the administration. Roughly 200,000 state workers would be subject to the mandatory days off, though the governor is […]
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