By Kathryn Reed “Dramatic changes” is how Guy LeFever describes what he has experienced in the 33 years he has worked for the Tahoe-Douglas Fire Protection District. The fire chief’s last day is Sept. 2. His career started in 1975 on a hand crew for Los Angeles County – a crew much like the ones […]
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By Kathryn Reed The treasurer of the board that oversees recreation Measure S on the South Shore just recently found out about the half dozen meetings the board has had this year geared primarily to rewriting the voter approved initiative. It took a call by an El Dorado County resident to county Auditor Joe Harn […]
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By Anne Knowles MINDEN – Plans to reroute Burke Creek under Highway 50 are getting under way in the first phase of a long-term project to restore Rabe Meadow. Douglas County Commissioners last week requested $100,000 from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Stream Environment Zone Fund to design the Burke Creek portion of the project. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Understanding your patients’ lifestyle can be critical to getting them to being in top shape after an injury. As someone who has competed in cross country skiing and mountain biking, Jon Finnoff knows what an active lifestyle is about. It’s one of the reasons he moved to South Lake Tahoe. Even though […]
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By Paula Peterson AVILA BEACH – To sum it up: heavenly. I found a place to unwind, relax, disappear into my own world, and yet, my daughter can have fun and enjoy it as well. And, I don’t have to leave the hotel. When traveling with your kids there aren’t many places that can give […]
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By Kathryn Reed Alien-like machines seem to be able to perform superhuman tasks in the middle of the forest. Cut, extract, de-limb, slice. Repeat, repeat, repeat. The sound of trees crashing echoes through the otherwise tranquil Angora burn area. A few birds chirp, but no people are venturing in to see what the noise is […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – South Lake Tahoe has someone new heading up fuels reduction projects – and it wasn’t by choice. Marty Scheuerman is now the division chief in charge of that aspect of the fire department, with Division Chief Ray Zachau being relieved of that responsibility. The billing quagmire surrounding the Lake Christopher […]
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By Kathryn Reed What policies would you change to make Lake Tahoe function better? Define what local contribution means, promote stewardship, overhaul infrastructure, improve transit, who is responsible for operation and maintenance costs, encouraging public-private partnerships, mandatory mediation before litigation, alignment within and between organizations, and balance environmental and economic goals. Those were some of […]
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By Kathryn Reed A federal judge on Monday seemed a bit bewildered why the League to Save Lake Tahoe brought forward the case against the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to stop the Sierra Colina development in Stateline from going forward. Sierra Colina is the name of the project Steve Kenninger and Gail Jaquish are trying […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee In a blistering assessment of how badly officials bungled their oversight of rapist-kidnapper Phillip Garrido, El Dorado County prosecutors have compiled a list of dozens of instances for which his parole should have been revoked, many of them that would have saved Jaycee Lee Dugard from being abducted. The […]
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