· It is possible to go online to request work orders from South Lake Tahoe’s Public Works Department. · Pete Bansen, who joined the Squaw Valley Fire Department in 1981 and has been chief for 24 years, is retiring at the end of June. · To receive texts about Tahoe road conditions and estimated drive […]
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· To enroll in the South Tahoe Refuse bear box loan program, call 530.541.5105. Homeowners may apply for a loan up to $1,200 for a metal bear box. The loan payments will cover five years and be included in the STR bill. · In a sign the Knights Inn project in South Lake Tahoe is […]
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Lance Orr has been named Barton Health’s doctor of the year. Orr is a board-certified emergency physician and medical director at Barton Hospital’s Emergency Department. Barton officials say he is considered a “physician of all trades.” He is also Barton Health’s interim chief medical officer. Doctor of the year is determined by Barton’s staff and […]
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· Kim Wyatt’s essay “The Currency of Moons” was selected to appear in Best American Travel Writing 2017 by guest editor Lauren Collins of the New Yorker. The anthology will publish in October; the essay first appeared in Creative Nonfiction’s spring 2016 issue. Wyatt is the owner of Bona Fide Books in Meyers. · Slow […]
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The portion of Highway 50 from Mount Ralston Road to Echo Summit will now be known as the Firefighter Michael “Mikey” Hallenbeck Memorial Highway. The 21-year-old Hallenbeck died in August 2015 fighting the Sierra Fire near Sierra-at-Tahoe. He was a wildland firefighter with the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. He also worked at the ski […]
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The Nevada and Placer Counties Resource Advisory Committee is requesting proposals for natural resource improvement projects in the two counties that benefit National Forest System lands. With the two-year reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, approximately $240,000 is expected to be available this year for RAC-recommended projects. Project proposals may be […]
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Madonna Dunbar, executive director of the Tahoe Water Suppliers Association, an organization of municipal water suppliers in the Lake Tahoe Basin, will give a talk in South Lake Tahoe on April 12. Dunbar will explain which suppliers pump from the lake and how to protect the lake’s water quality for continued future use as a […]
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· There will be a training April 11 from 4-6pm for Pipe Keepers, the citizen science program to address the threat of storm water pollution entering Lake Tahoe. League to Save Lake Tahoe staff will train people to survey local neighborhoods and collect storm water samples. Training is free. It will be at 2608 Lake […]
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Lane shifts will take place on Highway 50 near Spooner junction in south Carson City beginning April 2 as the Nevada Department of Transportation reconstructs the intersection to connect to the future Carson City Freeway. Both directions of Highway 50 at the South Carson Street-Spooner junction will temporarily be reduced to one lane and shifted […]
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Gregory Tirdel, medical director at Barton’s Sleep Studies Laboratory, will be giving a free talk April 5 about the lab. This lecture will include a discussion of the causes and treatment of insomnia, a review of lifestyle habits to ensure better sleep, and the recognition, evaluation and treatment options for sleep apnea. The talk will […]
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