• At the Aug. 21 South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting Gino DiMatteo’s $1 million claim against the city for not letting him the ability to move his pot shop was denied by the council. DiMatteo now owns Push Fitness. • Julie Paradysz was recently appointed marketing director at MontBleu in Stateline. • Truckee has […]
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To the community, Seems the devil’s at it once more. SnowGlobe is again a-go. It’s hard to fathom who is in control in bringing back this nuisance to town. My logic instructor, Dr. Patch, thought you can’t have a universe of discourse without first defining the terms. So, what is a nuisance? Webster’s New College […]
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By Mandy Kendall I just came back from a wonderfully relaxing 10-day trip. However, having been home for 24 hours, the relaxed bit already seems to be wearing off. I’m back to the old schedule of emails, errands, chores and work, making the memories of the trip already seem like a lifetime ago. Why is […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sawmill bike path may never be completed. “They make some offers and some threats, but I’m not interested in them,” Cass Amacker told Lake Tahoe News. “They don’t want to pay me nothing for buildable property.” Amacker for years has owned a 20-acre parcel off Sawmill Road. Part of his property is […]
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By Jim Fuquay, Fort Worth Star-Telegram A controversial Environmental Protection Agency rule on interstate air pollution, which had been challenged by Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings, the state of Texas and other energy interests, was set aside Tuesday in a 2-1 decision by a federal appeals court in Washington. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee Most Placer County employees will be asked to pay the full share of pension costs under a new two-year contract approved by Placer County supervisors on Tuesday. For most Placer Public Employees Organization members, the contribution will amount to about 6 percent of pay. In exchange, the county will contribute […]
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By Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times More than 550,000 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $1 billion have been seized during an eight-week crackdown targeting illegal marijuana growing operations on public lands across seven Western states, federal authorities announced on Tuesday. Operation Mountain Sweep, which started July 1, netted 96 illegal marijuana grows […]
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To the community, The Aug. 22 neighborhood crime meeting went well, with about 50 people attending. South Lake Tahoe police were informative and supportive. It seems that police logs are at the front desk and could be added to a website if we had one. I would like to continue a neighbor watch discussion. Maybe […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – The Edgewood Lodge project kept its “no negative comments” streak alive Thursday with 11 positive remarks. In a series of votes by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board, the hotel project on Edgewood Tahoe golf course received not a single no vote or abstention from any board member at […]
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Tahoe Maritime Museum is hosting a lecture called Fashion of the Twenties. Curator Jan Loverin from the Marjorie Russell Clothing and Textile Research Center will talk about the revolutionary trends of the period and how fashion on and in the lake changed over time. The Aug. 24 lecture is at 5:30pm. Cost is $5 for […]
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