By Kathy Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal The Golden Sierra Workforce Investment Board has teamed up with the California Employers Association to use $220,000 in federal stimulus funds to provide free employment advice and support to area businesses and job seekers. The partners have launched a human relations hotline and a series of business assistance workshops […]
Read moreFunding from the latest round of Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act money has been allocated. For a spreadsheet with details, click funding. Here are most of the highlights: * City of South Lake is final with the amounts shown on spreadsheet * El Dorado County may receive $50,000 more for the Meyers Planning project, […]
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By Susan Wood The modern Olympic Games have come a long way over the last 100-plus years, with moments that standout vividly and lessons that remind us how fragile, yet courageous, humanity from across the planet to the streets of Tahoe can be. The Games — which were dedicated to Olympian Gods — can be […]
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The Nevada Division of State Parks has approximately $384,000 in federal funds available for local park and recreation capital improvement and acquisition projects through the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund program. Local and tribal governments are potentially eligible for the 50:50 matching grants offered through the program. The due date for applications is April […]
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Harveys Outdoor Concert Series at Stateline expects to have 10 acts this summer. No one is confirmed yet, but the country artists tend to sign first. Sources say it’s likely there will be some returnees to the stage and not all newcomers to Lake Tahoe. A balance of genres is what the casino folks look […]
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What is the Emergency Preparedness Guide and why is it important? Find out Saturday at 10am on KTHO 96.1-FM and 590-AM when Darcie Carpenter of the Emergency Management Community Council is on the radio. Or listen at www.kthoradio.com.
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By Jaclyn O’Malley, Reno Gazette-Journal A 72-year-old Incline Village woman who was arraigned Thursday is accused of stabbing her elderly husband up to 200 times in a rage that was possibly motivated by her mental anguish over her husband’s onset of dementia and worries about money, according to the warrant charging her with his murder. […]
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By Lindsey Sine, USSA ASPEN — In classic form, Olympic gold medalists Kelly Clark (Mt. Snow, VT) and Shaun White (Carlsbad, CA) topped the superpipe qualifications Thursday night during Winter X Games 14 in Aspen. Both White and Clark went four for five in the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix tour to qualify first for the […]
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Good Evening, According to Caltrans District Director Jody Jones in a communication to me today the State Highway 50 Road, Water Quality and Beautification Project within the City limits will be brought by Caltrans staff to the California Transportation Commission for allocation of funds (probably at the June or July CTC meeting). Caltrans will then […]
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The Rotary Club of Truckee’s theme for the 32nd Annual Cadillac Ball on Nov. 13 at the Ritz-Carlton Highlands, Lake Tahoe is “Shaken, Not Stirred†a catch phrase of Ian Fleming’s fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond, and his preference for how he wished his martini prepared. The event features a three-course, gourmet, sit-down […]
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