By Betty Hechtman They’re called second acts, encore careers or reinventing yourself – they’re the completely new and different jobs people take in midlife or later. Today, making that jump is more likely to be a matter of following the heart than it was during the throes of the economic recession, when professionals caught up […]
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By Erica Goode, New York Times The prison population in the United States dropped in 2012 for the third consecutive year, according to federal statistics released on Thursday, in what criminal justice experts said was the biggest decline in the nation’s recent history, signaling a shift away from an almost four-decade policy of mass imprisonment. […]
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Southwest Gas wants to raise rates effective Jan. 1. A residential customer in South Lake Tahoe using 73 therms a month now pays $66.20. A rate increase would put that monthly bill at $73.41. The California Public Utilities Commission is having evidentiary hearings from Aug. 12-16 at 10am in San Francisco. Southwest Gas in December […]
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• The El Dorado County Air Quality Management District is expanding office hours beginning Aug. 12 to Mondays-Thursdays from 7:30am to 5:30pm and Fridays 8am to 5pm. And the office will open during lunch. • Sierra Cosmetic Laser in downtown Truckee has hired aesthetic nurse Abigail Rockey-Scott. • Lake Tahoe author Todd Borg’s next writers’ […]
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By Kathryn Reed Improvements to South Lake Tahoe ball fields and bike trails will be in the ground by the time the building season is over in the fall. The upgrades all have to do with the transformation of Measure S into Measure R. South Shore voters on the California side decided the recreation measure […]
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Regional authors Conrad Buedel and Steve Achard will appear on Book TV airing on C-SPAN2 starting Aug. 3 at 9am. The program is called “Carson City Weekend” and features the history of Carson Valley, Carson City and Virginia City from the 1800s as told by regional authors. Tiffany Rocque, a video journalist for C-SPAN, filmed […]
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By Phillip Reese and Cynthia Hubert, Sacramento Bee A Nevada state psychiatric hospital under fire for busing hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities across the nation over the past five years will not appeal a decision stripping it of its accreditation. A committee of the Joint Commission, an independent agency that accredits hospitals nationwide, […]
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Veteran Reno pilot Gus Pappas has written “If Airplanes Could Talk II”. This book is the continuance of his first book “If Airplanes Could Talk.” Pappas retired from the air National Guard after serving for 36 years, during which time he introduced many of the air technician programs still in use today. After retiring he […]
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Updated July 27 6:45am: South Lake Tahoe police are recanting some of the information released about registered sex offender Wesley Goetz. Goetz is on lifetime supervision, but he is not on active parole in Nevada. He is permitted to travel into California. Police say Goetz’s desire to obtain a business license in South Lake Tahoe […]
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The Truckee River Watershed Council is offering homeowners a free workshop on river-friendly landscaping and weed warriors programs. The workshop will be at the Truckee Community Garden at the Truckee River Regional Park on July 30 from 5:30-7:30pm. The workshop is for homeowners, but anyone is welcome to attend, including landscape architects, landscapers, nursery, and […]
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