By Kathryn Reed Sometime in October the T.J. Maxx building in South Lake Tahoe will be a water customer of South Tahoe Public Utility District’s instead of Lukins Brothers Water Company. The STPUD board will get an update this afternoon at 2 about the property owner’s application for water service and the main line extension. […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun The publisher of a newsletter about Las Vegas is encouraging readers not to put money down on hotel reservations or make deposits in casinos operated by Caesars Entertainment, citing the prospect of a bankruptcy filing. Caesars owns Harrah’s and Harveys at Stateline. “In an abundance of caution, this […]
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By Janet Lorin, Bloomberg The number of U.S. university students declined by almost half a million last year, following years of growth, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The decrease was driven by students 25 and older, with 419,000 fewer enrolled in the fall of 2012 from a year earlier, according to data the Census […]
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By Kathryn Reed Who gets to sell what and where dominated Tuesday’s South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting. At the root of the discussion is what the five electeds want the city to look like. Less junky was the overwhelming, though not unanimous, decision. No longer will arts and crafts festivals be allowed in South […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee TRUCKEE – Mired in the bureaucracy of a contract dispute and lacking the funds to hire a coordinator, California state parks officials have delayed the opening of a new museum at Donner Memorial State Park. Instead of opening this fall, the High Sierra Crossing Museum – a 9,400-square-foot structure […]
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By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times WALKER — State fisheries biologist Dave Lentz poured poison into a remote High Sierra stream and watched quietly as every rainbow and golden trout in the water turned belly up. After the rotenone spread along 11 miles of Silver King Creek last Wednesday, other biologists poured in a neutralizing […]
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By Kathryn Reed Last year Mount Tallac High School was run by a teacher on site, with the principal of South Tahoe High School the actual administrator. This year there is an administrator on campus. This has led the South Tahoe Educators Association to file an unfair labor practice charge with the Public Employees Relations […]
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By Robert S. Wood I just lost a dear friend of 50 years. She was more than a friend, more like a soul mate. Her passing reminded me of how little the public knows about death, and how fearful our traditional beliefs about it have become. We know it’s the end of our physical life, […]
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By Joe Mozingo, Ari Bloomekatz and David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times In a significant policy shift by the Obama administration, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. signaled Thursday that the federal government would no longer interfere in states that allowed commercial marijuana sales as long as they were strictly regulated. The move comes two years […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau INCLINE VILLAGE – Every time Max Jones rides the Flume Trail, he can’t help but take notice of a certain overhanging boulder that once caught the bar of a chain saw he was carrying on his back that sent him, his bicycle and the chain saw tumbling down the steep granite hillside […]
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