The El Dorado Community Foundation received 72 requests for grant funding from South Lake Tahoe. The South Lake Tahoe Endowment consists of the Joan Rochelle Fund and the South Lake Tahoe Area Fund. The recipients are: South Tahoe Middle School, South Tahoe High School, Sierra House, Tahoe Valley Elementary, Bijou Community School, Tahoe Youth & […]
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By Lauren Weber, Wall Street Journal More workers are just saying no, at least by one measure. The share of U.S. workers testing positive for drugs has dropped sharply since 1988, according to an analysis of millions of drug tests being released Monday by medical-testing company Quest Diagnostics Inc. Positive workplace tests for cocaine and […]
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California has been doing a restaurant week in January for a handful of years and the South Shore is going to participate in 2014 for the first time. Tahoe South Restaurant Week will be Jan. 10-17. Restaurants wanting to know more about this event are asked to attend an informational meeting Nov. 20 at 4:30pm […]
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A 23-year-old Colorado man remains in serious condition this afternoon at Renown Medical Center in Reno after being thrown from his bicycle Nov. 15. California Highway Patrol officers said James Hulett of Boulder was on his bike on Highway 28 going up Dollar Hill just after 5pm Friday when he was struck from behind by […]
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By Peter Wallsten and Tom Hamburger, Washington Post Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, whose record-breaking campaign spending in 2012 made him an icon of the new super-donor era, is leveraging that newfound status in an escalating feud with industry rivals over the future of gambling. Adelson, best known for building upscale casino resorts in Nevada […]
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By Bill Lindelof , Sacramento Bee The California Highway Patrol is investigating the death of a U.S. Forest Service firefighter who appears to have been run over by a car filled with his colleagues on a road in Yuba County over the weekend. Michael Patrick Kelly II, 32, who served as a squad boss on […]
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Soroptimist International Tahoe Sierra is celebrating the season with local vendors and artisans. In the loft at Blue Angel Cafe in South Lake Tahoe there will be gifts available for purchase that range form beauty products to jewelery to apparel to spices to books. The event is Dec. 3 from 4-8pm. There will also be […]
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By Niraj Chokshi, Washington Post The income gap in America has been widening for decades and the modest three-year recovery did little to change that, according to Census data. The new data suggest that despite modest recoveries in many states, the middle class has been shrinking while households have been added in the lowest and […]
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By Kathryn Reed Prosecuting bad guys is what Vicki Ashworth has been doing for the last 16 years. Now she wants to be the judge in those cases. Ashworth is running for the El Dorado County Superior Court judgeship being vacated by Doug Phimister. For the past 14 years Ashworth has worked in the El […]
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By Joanne Marchetta It’s been almost a year since the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency adopted a new blueprint for the future of Lake Tahoe. That day we came together around a common vision and the adoption of the new Lake Tahoe Regional Plan propelled us past planning and finally to action. Whether your passion for […]
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