By Kathryn Reed “We walk in peaceful resistance to the negative rhetoric of the past election cycle.” That is the message a group of South Shore women want to convey as they march Jan. 21 in solidarity with the thousands, if not millions, of other women throughout the United States on that day. A woman in […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Don’t drive. That is the message being delivered by nearly every agency dealing with roads in and around Lake Tahoe. This was the South Lake Tahoe’s message on Jan. 4, “Stay home. If you really don’t have to go out, don’t. Even if you can drive well in the snow, not […]
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By Kathryn Reed It has been well documented that to get a job in El Dorado County it pays to know who is doing the hiring. Last month the Board of Supervisors reviewed a list of contracts of $64,000 or less signed by the chief administrative officer. According to board policy, these contracts are not […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION – While the water content of the Sierra snowpack is below average for this time of year, the October rains have reservoirs in California higher than most Januarys, especially considering the state is coming out of five years of drought. No one is saying the drought is over, but the […]
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Kingsbury Grade has finally been closed because the sink hole that has been expanding is now too dangerous for vehicles to drive on. The closure went into effect at 5pm Jan. 3. “As weather will play a factor, no timeframe is set to complete roadway repairs, but we will work to reopen the road as […]
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By Tony Bizjak, Sacramento Bee More drivers than ever this winter are parking illegally on the side of Highway 50 to play or take photos in the snow. That’s despite the fact that “No Stopping Anytime” signs frequently line the road from Placerville to Echo Summit. California Highway Patrol officials say some people are even […]
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By Kathryn Reed A lawsuit has been filed to stop the implementation of Placer County’s Tahoe Basin Area Plan. The approvals by the Board of Supervisors on Dec. 6 included the plan, environmental documents and green-lighted the 118-unit Tahoe City Lodge project. The lawsuit filed Dec. 21 by the California Clean Energy Committee against the […]
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By Michael Casey and Patrick Whittle, AP In a towering forest of centuries-old eastern hemlocks, it’s easy to miss one of the tree’s nemeses. No larger than a speck of pepper, the Hemlock woolly adelgid spends its life on the underside of needles sucking sap, eventually killing the tree. The bug is one in an […]
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By Darryl Fears, Washington Post Here in the land of beauty and make-believe, it’s important to keep up appearances. Tracy Quinn sees it whenever she walks her dog: sprinklers irrigating pretty green lawns and wasted water bleeding across sidewalks during the state’s driest spell in centuries. “It drives me crazy,” said Quinn, a water policy […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal You might not know anything about Richard Bothwell. But Bothwell knows things about you. He knows that as a human you’re prone to making bad decisions. And if you like to play in the Sierra Nevada snow he knows how those bad decisions could get you killed in an avalanche. […]
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