By Kathryn Reed All things Lake Tahoe are on the agenda of the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors when the gang meets Nov. 10 on the South Shore. This is the board’s once a year meeting when they leave Placerville and make their way to Lake Tahoe – the other part of the county […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee El Dorado County health officials say local healthcare providers have begun receiving shipments of the H1N1 flu vaccine. “Doctors in the community who ordered the vaccine should have received the vaccine or will be getting it within the next few weeks,” Cathy Dunbar, county immunization coordinator, said in a news […]
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Eldridge Moores, with the UC Davis Department of Geology, will speak Dec. 9 about Assembling California and Western Nevada: Point Reyes to Lake Tahoe. The landscapes of California and western Nevada have a long and storied past including plate movements, granitic intrusions, volcanism, and collisions of island arcs and continental fragments with the western US […]
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By Kathryn Reed A few drivers might be regretting dodging the small suitcase in the middle of Tahoe Keys Boulevard the other morning. South Tahoe public works crews saw it and knew to remove the obstacle. What they didn’t know is inside was $5,000 in two bundles of one hundred dollar bills. Before retrieving it […]
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By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times STATELINE – When big investment firms want to tap public pension funds for money, they often put in a call to Alfred J.R. Villalobos. From a modest office near Lake Tahoe’s casinos, Villalobos has spent years helping Wall Street players like Apollo Management gain access to the vast wealth […]
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Reno Gazette-Journal Federal, state and local officials have completed a restoration project for a creek at north Lake Tahoe they say will improve fish habitat and reduce sediment flows into the lake while enhancing recreational opportunities. One major component of the Third Creek project was removal of fish passage barriers that not only made it […]
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New to winter driving? Then the Nov. 17 class taught by the California Highway Patrol is for you. Attendees will at the South Tahoe High School library from 6-8pm. Space is limited to 50. Call (530) 577.1001 to reserve a spot.
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Disabled Sports Far West at Alpine Meadows Resort needs volunteers to teach people with disabilities to learn how to ski and snowboard. Volunteers must be a strong intermediate or above. A two-day training is mandatory. Lift tickets are provided. Applications are at www.disabledsports.net, or call (530) 581.4161.
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By Gus Thomson, Auburn Journal After seven months, nightly traffic detours off Interstate 80 east of Colfax are over. The $70 million Caltrans project to rehab 11 miles of the freeway between Colfax and Alta is essentially completed, allowing two-way traffic back on I-80 24 hours a day. The final convoy of trucks, buses and […]
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By Vern Pierson In response to the release of the Inspector General’s report pertaining to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s supervision of parolee Phillip Garrido, we welcome this report as a critical first step to: (1) Identify the problems with the federal and state systems that supervise dangerous sexual offenders released on parole; […]
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