Publisher’s note: This July 9, 2010, letter from South Lake Tahoe City Manager Dave Jinkens to Michael Applegarth, in El Dorado County’s administrative office, is reprinted with permission. It relates this story. Michael: As you requested, I am forwarding a copy of the attached letter from the Board of Supervisors to the City Council today. […]
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Candidates for South Lake Tahoe City Council may take out forms starting July 12. Documents must be returned by Aug. 6. However, if an incumbent does not run, the deadline is extended to Aug. 11. Three seats are up in November. Councilman Bill Crawford has said he does not intend to run, Councilman Jerry Birdwell […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal It started with paw prints that didn’t match a guilty party. It was back in 1998 when a trapper hired by the California Department of Fish and Game shot and killed a mother bear and her cub after a bear tore through a cellar door on Lake Tahoe’s west shore […]
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The South Lake Tahoe Police Department will be conducting a DUI/driver’s License checkpoint on July 12 from 8pm to 1:30am along Lake Tahoe Boulevard and Pioneer Trail. The department is continuing its efforts at lowering the number of people killed and injured in alcohol involved crashes locally and through the county’s Avoid DUI Task Force […]
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The Douglas County Public Library in Zephyr Cove presents Alligator Stories and Crafts on July 16 at 1:30pm. Miss Carol will read “Zack’s Alligator” by Shirley Mozelle. Children will sing songs, watch an alligator grow, go on a gator hunt, and make a craft to take home. For ages 3 and up; young children should […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial first ran June 26, 2010, in the Pasadena Star-News. Hey, governor, it’s time you came clean and declared California’s drought to be over. Because it is. To do anything else would be dishonest. See, the numbers don’t lie. From October through April, the state experienced above-average rainfall – 105percent, according to […]
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By Austin Fay STATELINE — Every tax paying homeowner in the Lake Tahoe Basin was sent a postcard notifying him or her of Friday’s fire symposium. From the approximately 40,000 postcards that were sent, about 10 homeowners showed up at Harveys. The symposium of fire chiefs, decision-makers, land managers, and homeowners was part of the […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Scuba-diving scientists and a federal, state and regional battalion launched an aquatic assault Friday on alien invaders threatening to slime one of the world’s most pristine lakes. In a $1.4 million experiment led by researchers from the University of California, Davis and the University of Nevada, the team set out […]
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By Dan Hinxman, Reno Gazette Journal The Reno-Tahoe Open and American Century Championship, the area’s two prominent golf tournaments, are the same week this year — July 12-18 — for the first time in the history of the two popular events. “That’s unfortunate, isn’t it?” local golf enthusiast John Coats said. The tournaments have been […]
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By Susanne Rust, California Watch Dirty air may not just affect your lungs. It could affect your tap, too. Scientists at the Desert Research Institute, a division of the Nevada System of Higher Education, say polluted air can cut a storm’s snowfall in half. Randy Borys, co-author of the study and director of the institute’s […]
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