Temperatures are cooling off in the Lake Tahoe Basin as the threat of afternoon thunderstorms escalates. Thunderheads have been accumulating most afternoons, with the severest weather expected on Thursday. The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a flash flood watch for the basin that day. “There’s lot of moisture hanging around the area,” NWS […]
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By John McMullen, Sports Network There are quite a few stars scheduled for the 25th anniversary of the American Century Championship but only one real hero. Chad Pfeifer lost his left leg during a deployment with the U.S. Army in Iraq but that won’t stop him from appearing in beautiful Lake Tahoe with a field […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — Sen. Dean Heller has invested months lobbying his colleagues to extend benefits for unemployed Americans. In a rare feat of bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats from Nevada’s six-person delegation have backed Heller’s effort to renew benefits for the long-term unemployed after Congress let the program expire in December. […]
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By Richard B. Alman There’s good news for jobs in the United States. • In June, the private sector added 288,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. • The unemployment rate has shrunk to 6.1 percent, the lowest since September 2008, when the Great Recession was just starting. The rate has dropped nearly […]
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• Placer County had the best agricultural presentation among all counties at the California Fair. • Measure E will be on the November ballot for Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District voters. E being for education, though the money is for facilities. • Carson Tennis Club’s second annual Compass Tournament is July 19-20. Click on for the […]
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By Seth Nidever, Hanford Sentinel HANFORD – The struggle to find additional irrigation water for Kings County’s parched Westside was on full display Monday as the comment period closed on a proposed 35,000 acre-feet water transfer from Placer County Water Agency to thirsty Westlands Water District, 80,000 acres of which are in Kings County. The […]
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By Jennifer Chaussee, Reuters A long-shot effort to break California into six separate states got a boost on Monday, when the billionaire venture capitalist behind the proposal said he had gathered enough signatures to place it on the ballot in two years. Timothy Draper, a founder of a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that has […]
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The candidates forum for Sue Novasel and Kenny Curtzwiler, who will face each other in a November runoff for District 5 El Dorado County supervisor, has been moved to July 29. Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of the 6:30-8pm event at the CCC building in Meyers, had not asked the candidates their […]
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By Joanne Marchetta I often speak about the importance of partnerships in this column and once again circumstances have proven the value of our collective teamwork and collaboration. Last week, the multi-sector partnership of the aquatic invasive species program prevented a boat from entering the lake that had quagga mussels and snail shells hidden within […]
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Author Mary Jo Sonntag will share “Write, If You Live to Get There Tracing Westward Expansion Through 120 Years of Family Letters” on Aug. 13 at 6pm. It tells the story of the Phillips family’s westward migration from Vermont to Northern California told through a collection of letters. They talk of the family’s entrepreneurial spirit […]
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