By Kathryn Reed “When victims and families have a really bad day, that is when our good work starts. That is one of the things that is odd about our career – some of the most challenging and interesting cases are some of the most horrific.” Chris Campion, retired FBI agent Jaycee Lee Dugard […]
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By Eyragon Eidam, Auburn Journal Weather experts have little confidence the winter months will bring the rain and snow needed to improve drought conditions in California. According to a National Weather Service Seasonal Drought Outlook report, the “forecast confidence for California is low,” despite the potential of an El Nino winter. Typically, California receives approximately 50 […]
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By Diane Lewis It took the considerable effort of a number of community members, educators and parents to bring Lake Tahoe Community College to life back in 1974. But from the college’s very beginnings to its present-day campus on Al Tahoe, no single person has contributed more to the creation, success and growth of LTCC […]
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By Kathryn Reed Playing in the rough has taken on a whole new meaning at Edgewood Tahoe. The Stateline golf course looks like a construction zone these days. And that’s because it is one. By December 2016 the 154-room Edgewood Lodge should be open. There will also be 40 cabin units along the eighth and […]
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By Western Farm Press California vintners and growers across the state are grateful for another excellent vintage, despite an ongoing drought and earthquake that rocked south Napa in late August as crush was getting underway. A mild winter and spring caused early bud break, although the overall length of the growing season was similar to […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Building and real estate interests, led by the developer of the Serrano El Dorado Hills community, have dumped more than $1million into the campaign to defeat growth control ballot measures in El Dorado County. Parker Development Co., builder of the 4,700-home Serrano community, has donated $866,750 through its affiliates, Serrano […]
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By Anne Knowles CARSON CITY – Nevada’s statehood, celebrated this sesquicentennial year, came on the heels of a boundary dispute with California that left one person dead and the border that split Lake Tahoe still undefined. “The battle took place in February 1863 and lasted just four hours,” Jeff Kintop, Nevada state archivist in Carson […]
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By Jim Robbins, New York Times BUTTE, Mont. — Once routinely trapped and shot as varmints, their dams obliterated by dynamite and bulldozers, beavers are getting new respect these days. Across the West, they are being welcomed into the landscape as a defense against the withering effects of a warmer and drier climate. Beaver dams, […]
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By Associated Press LAGUNA BEACH — Personal information about more than 18.5 million Californians was hacked, stolen or otherwise exposed last year and as many as one-third of those people will become victims of fraud, California Attorney General Kamala Harris said Tuesday in a report on data breaches in the nation’s biggest state. Retailers, banks, […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County supervisors are not ready to sign-off on the Meyers Area Plan. Instead, they want the community to weigh in at one more public meeting. The Meyers issue was the main item on board’s agenda during their annual meeting in Lake Tahoe on Oct. 28. It was clear the supervisors, […]
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