Dear to publisher, I have read with interest many of the “Letters to the Editor” concerning the race for sheriff of El Dorado County. Most voters desire a positive campaign, but there are many who only speak negatively of their candidate’s opponents. We think all six candidates are qualified to run the sheriff’s department and […]
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Many campgrounds and recreation sites within the Tahoe National Forest will be open for Memorial Day, however snow is expected to keep some of the more popular sites closed until early or mid-June. “Our recreation crews and campground concessionaires have been working hard to get the campgrounds ready for the Memorial Day weekend,” Tom Quinn, […]
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The Douglas County Public Library in Minden will be closed on May 31 for Memorial Day. The library will resume its regular schedule on June 1 at 10am. For more information, call the library at (775)782.9841.
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Reno Gazette-Journal A local group of senior women, ages 50 and older, qualified for the United States Tennis Association’s Senior National Tennis Tournament held Oct. 8-10 in Palm Springs. The team will represent the Northern California area including Reno and Lake Tahoe in the championships. Read the whole story
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Several Lake Tahoe Community College Fire Academy cadets have received scholarships from Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District and the South Lake Tahoe Rotary Club. Paul Butterweich earned a $500 scholarship from Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District; Mark Lookerse, $500 scholarship from Tahoe Douglas; Jyota Smith-Howard, $500 scholarship from South Lake Tahoe Rotary; and Nick Giordano, […]
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To the community, As some of you already know, I helped start the Tahoe Victims of CPS in 2007. We are a Child Protective Services (CPS) reform group. CPS is a good organization of good people but due to funding cuts and high case overloads, they have been unable to keep pace with their required […]
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Bistro Danielle is the featured restaurant for Taste of Tahoe starting today. The Zephyr Cove restaurant will be donating 5 percent of its proceeds from now through May 29 to the South Lake Tahoe Relay for Life. To make reservations, call (775) 586.1070. To learn more more about Taste of Tahoe, click here.
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After a brief delay due to the issuing of a new 40-year special use permit by the U.S. Forest Service, the purchase of Sierra Summit Mountain Resort by ski industry veteran Tim Cohee closed May 21. Cohee immediately returned the resort to its former name, China Peak. “These types of transactions always have challenges at […]
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By Andy Rooney, CBS I have good news for you tonight. According to an American Gaming Association report, revenue from casino gambling fell by almost two billion dollars last year. A lot of people are out of work and it turns out that when people are unemployed, they gamble less. You’d think they might gamble […]
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By Frank X. Mullen Jr., Reno Gazette-Journal Reno is in fourth place nationally among cities that are “most doomed for divorce,” according to Men’s Health magazine. Las Vegas came in second after first-place Cheyenne, Wyo. Billings, Mont., was third on the list of 100 cities ranked in order of their propensity to become Splitsville. To […]
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