By Kathryn Reed Planting seeds. It’s what Beth Delacour does every day. But what sprouts is no ordinary specimen. Her finished product is a responsible, self-confident educated young person. This is Delacour’s seventh and final year as principal of South Tahoe Middle School. She is retiring when the school year is over. She has spent […]
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By Fenit Nirappil, AP As the California drought drags on, water officials are considering expanding mandatory outdoor water restrictions on homeowners and adding new limits on restaurants, hotels and decorative fountains. At an informational meeting Tuesday, the State Water Resources Control Board also appeared ready to extend existing rules imposed last summer to boost water […]
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By Matthias Gafni, Bay Area News Group It was 1964. Late at night. The Northern California man had lost his hunting buddies in the woods near Lake Tahoe and climbed a tree to sleep. Awakened by a glowing object landing on a nearby ridge, the man was soon fighting for his life against two neckless […]
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By Kathryn Reed Vacation rental owners are likely going to have to pay more money to get a permit in South Lake Tahoe as well as contend with other new regulations. The South Lake Tahoe City Council on Feb. 17 spent the bulk of the meeting talking about how to revise the 2003 ordinance that […]
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By Kathryn Reed When Caltrans closed Highway 50 over Echo Summit in 2011 to replace the dilapidated rock wall that was put in just after World War II, the powers that be came unglued. There were countless meetings, a media blitz let people know the South Shore was still in business and that the best […]
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By Ray Hagar, Reno Gazette-Journal The Nevada Senate passed a bill that would pave the way for new school construction across the state Monday, while ending Nevada’s long-standing practice of paying prevailing wages on state-sponsored construction projects. The bill, Senate Bill 119, would allow an extension of bond rollover funds from property taxes for school […]
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By Kathryn Reed Tahoe Transportation District officials are in Washington, D.C., this week on a mission to convince lawmakers to pass the federal transportation bill that would bring money to the Lake Tahoe Basin. The Trans-Sierra Transportation Plan and Coalition is a loose coalition of six California jurisdictions and five from Nevada that have an […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee California water agencies are on track to satisfy a state mandate to reduce water consumption 20 percent by 2020. But according to their own projections, that savings won’t be enough to keep up with population growth just a decade later. A 2009 state law requires urban water agencies to reduce […]
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By Lydia O’Connor, Huffington Post If the soft drink industry thought its fight with health reformers ended in the San Francisco Bay Area last election season, a new bill in the California legislature may be a rude awakening, reviving the movement to cut the state’s sugary beverage consumption. “I don’t think this issue is going […]
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By Kathryn Reed Not getting a good night’s sleep is the least serious complication of sleep apnea. Sleep apnea, a sleep disorder, is an often-overlooked condition that can contribute to more serious medical problems. And for those living in Lake Tahoe or other high elevation communities, the threat is even greater. This is because there […]
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