The Zawadisha Fund’s third annual Zawadisha Holiday Bazaar will be at Bona Fide HQ in Meyers on Dec. 7. The event is from 10am-3pm. Potential vendors will find all details and a vendor application here. Applications must be submitted online no later than Oct. 15. The Zawadisha Fund provides small business loans to female entrepreneurs […]
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Passport to Dining returns to the North Shore on Nov. 14. The popular social gathering features food and beverage tastings from up to 35 local restaurants, caterers, breweries, wineries and distilleries. Tickets are $35 in advance and $45 day of event. For info and to buy tickets, call (530) 546.9000. The 6–9pm is at the […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County Supervisor Ray Nutting pleaded not guilty to all charges Friday in El Dorado County Superior Court in South Lake Tahoe. Nutting, 53, faces four felony counts regarding more than $70,000 he received from the state to clear brush from his 350-acre ranch in Somerset. (His brother owns an adjacent […]
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By Taryn Luna, Boston Globe T.J. Maxx is finally back online. Eight years after the off-price retailer’s first Internet store fizzled — costing the Framingham company $15 million — its new website went live Tuesday, selling women’s clothing, accessories, shoes, and handbags. “Last time, the website was kind of an afterthought,” said Jennifer Davis, a […]
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By John McCormick, Bloomberg More Americans continued to take on roommates or boarders than before the recession, women had fewer children, and people were still flocking to college or graduate school as a way to postpone their entry into the job market. Those are just some measures of a tepid U.S. economy recorded last year […]
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By Julie Rovner, NPR When UPS told workers that it would no longer offer health coverage for spouses who had their own job-based insurance, it caused a big stir. But the shipping giant has plenty of company. So many employers are trying to cut back on health coverage for spouses that it has become a […]
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Off-roaders can rev up their engines. An agreement reached by conservation groups, off-roaders and the counties of El Dorado, Alpine and Amador settles litigation going back to the 1990s by resolving the status of contentious trails in Eldorado National Forest. Under the agreement, some trails and dirt roads will reopen, others would remain closed and […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College library will be offering a free, weekly Career Clinic on Wednesdays starting Oct. 2 and going through November. Each session is from 1-3pm with consultant Michael Donahoe. The clinic is available to everyone, not just students. The clinic is designed to help people with: Developing career goals and educational plans. Job […]
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The Tahoe area is in need of foster and adoptive homes for local kids. On any given day in South Lake Tahoe there are approximately 100 foster children in need of care. Foster parents are provided with training, financial stipends, and 24-hour support staff. Foster children come with medical and dental insurance. There will be […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – The California Tahoe Conservancy realizes it created a public relations nightmare for itself when it put 330 parcels in the asset lands program. “We created a perception with some in the public that all 330 parcels are ready to go,” Patrick Wright, CTC executive director, said at the Sept. […]
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