By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — About 70 people listened Wednesday to the seven education candidates share their views about why they should be elected Nov. 3. Even though all are running for California seats, the meeting was at Harveys in Nevada. Nothing earth shattering was shared by the candidates. Each had 2 minutes for an […]
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By Kathryn Reed Looking at the big picture is what Tracy Owen Chapman does when it comes to placing Lake Tahoe Community College interns. It’s all about asking them where they think they’ll be in five or 10 years. It’s keeping track of industry trends. It’s about creating matches that are relevant and not creating […]
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Hear Lake Tahoe News Publisher Kathryn Reed moderate the Ask the TRPA show this morning at 10:15am on KTHO AM-590 or www.kthoradio.com.
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Hi, Kae These stories are wonderful. I can relate to one of the stories in which a participant at the SLT GP meeting asked why the LTCC doesn’t have forestry in the curriculum. I’ve given numerous talks at the Tahoe Issues Class over the years. They used to have a wilderness program that was much […]
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Debbie Endsley, 51, of Placerville has been appointed by the governor to be director of the Department of Personnel Administration. She has served DPA as chief deputy director since 2007, chief of the Benefits Division from 2004-06 and deputy chief of the Benefits Division from 1998-2004. Prior to that, Endsley served the California Public Employees’ […]
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By Mike Dunne, Sacramento Bee Reno’s food culture, long identified with all-you-can-eat casino buffets and steak-and-egg specials, is maturing and diversifying. Aside from restaurants, Reno offers food enthusiasts a small and quiet but industrious community of entrepreneurs who produce specialty foods and beverages of uncommon creativity and quality. They’re scattered all about Reno and Sparks, […]
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Associated Press RENO — Thousands of Nevada hunters are getting excited as the hunting season looms for the state’s most popular game bird: the chukar (chuck-ur). Nevada Department of Wildlife officials said the 2009-10 chukar season should be good for most of the state partly because of a wet spring that led to higher chick […]
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Genoa Country Store owners Kathleen Contento and Doug Lubushkin are handing the keys over to Benedetti Markets Inc. on Oct. 1. Substantive changes are not expected to the rural Nevada outpost. For more information, go to www.genoacountrystore.com.
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By Kathryn Reed Sixteen months – that’s the amount of time John Hellman will spend behind bars for embezzling $16,574 from the Red Cross that had been donated to assist the 2007 Angora Fire survivors. Hellman, 49, pleaded no contest to the multiple charges. He was sentenced in El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville […]
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Another business has closed shop in South Lake Tahoe — this one with sizable square footage. The Carrows near the Y left last week. The Carrows by Stateline is still open. With the city looking to include the bulk of the town in its latest redevelopment plan, the closure should be good news. This is […]
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