To the community, In Mayor Claire Fortier’s June message to the community, she spoke of a trip to Monterey and Livermore sponsored by TahoeChamber.org. The mayor’s purpose of sending the message was to cheer the good things those cities have done to rebuild Monterey and Livermore. The mayor spoke warmly about Livermore’s rerouting a main […]
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By Jesse McKinley, New York Times PEBBLE BEACH — The countdown to foie-mageddon has begun. With less than a month until California’s first-in-the nation ban on foie gras takes effect, fans of the fattened duck and goose liver are buying out stocks of the delicacy, searching for legal loopholes and sating themselves at a series […]
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The Placer County Board of Supervisors adopted a proposed 2012-13 budget this month, a move that ensures the county will have a balanced spending plan in place when the next fiscal year begins July 1. Development of the five-year strategy is part of the board’s ongoing efforts to protect the county’s fiscal health and preserve […]
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By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON – Ridding the swales between Tallac and Taylor creeks of invasive species could help reverse the decline of native fish species so in future years third- and fourth-graders might be able to see what the Washoe were accustomed to harvesting from Lake Tahoe. Back in the day when Washoe summered […]
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Three-time Douglas County commissioner and current assemblyman for the area Kelly Kite lost his seat Tuesday night. Jim Wheeler won the Republican primary for Assembly District 39 with 2,397 votes (41.54 percent). Kite had 2,012 votes (34.87 percent), and Gary Schmidt 1,361 votes (23.59 percent). Wheeler will face Independent American candidate David Schumann in November. […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee A Sacramento man believes he has snapped a live picture of what only remote motion-sensitive cameras have captured before: a wolverine in the Sierra Nevada. David Messa, 51, was on a camping trip in Nevada County on May 19 when around nightfall he took a picture of a creature walking […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee After a week of strike talk and increasing bitterness, Northern California supermarket workers have called in a strategist from their union’s international headquarters to help with stalled contract negotiations. William McDonough, director of bargaining for the United Food and Commercial Workers, came to the Bay Area on Monday at the […]
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The Tahoe Tri Club will host its first mud obstacle race at Sierra-at-Tahoe on July 14. The spectator-friendly course starts at an elevation of 6,800 feet and offers multiple options for distance and age. Organizers say the race course will be built by a sadistic crew of licensed contractors designed to test people’s strength and […]
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By Ylan Q. Mui, Washington Post The recent recession wiped out nearly two decades of Americans’ wealth, according to government data released Monday, with middle-class families bearing the brunt of the decline. The Federal Reserve said the median net worth of families plunged by 39 percent in just three years, from $126,400 in 2007 to […]
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