By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe education officials are cautiously optimistic Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget will stay intact as presented earlier this month – at least when it comes to dollars for schools. The Friday before Brown released his proposal on May 16 all the predictions were dire. Lake Tahoe Unified School District CFO Deb […]
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By Kathryn Reed Money, TRPA, redevelopment agencies, water meters, ADA lawsuits, and California’s lousy business climate were some of the topics brought up Tuesday during an open forum with state Sen. Ted Gaines. This was Gaines’ first visit to South Lake Tahoe since being elected to the state Senate in January. The Republican from Roseville […]
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By Stephen Ward With summer approaching, residents and vacationers are beginning to flock to the lake and its resorts, basking in the sun and enjoying the season. Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones who love the warm weather; mosquitoes are starting to pervade the Lake Tahoe region, and counties are stepping up their defense to […]
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By Anne Knowles CARSON CITY — With two weeks left in the legislative session, a bill that would remove Nevada from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is finally making its way through the Legislature. Senate Bill 271 is expected to move to the Senate soon for a full vote after several amendments to the legislation […]
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By Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times California ski operators often complain that they don’t have enough snow. This year, they’re complaining that they had too much. Mountain resorts saw a 12 percent decline in skiers and snowboarders this season compared with the previous one, with attendance falling to about 7.1 million, according to California Ski […]
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By Kathryn Reed BEIJING – “Don’t yell protest.” That was my niece’s sage advice as we walked along Tiananmen Square. As the largest public square in the world, this mass of concrete in itself is not so impressive. Its history, of course, is what makes it seem like something more than it is. Police officers […]
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By Kathryn Reed COLOMA – Hiking, biking and waterfalls – all in one day. Blood, scratches and poison oak – all in one day. Happy, irritated and in pain – all in one day. The idea was to drop in elevation without going too far. Done. Then to mountain bike in a pretty area. Done. […]
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By Kathryn Reed For the last 10 years the South Shore of El Dorado County has had one voice in Placerville on the Board of Supervisors. The previous decade it had two reps, with one living in the Lake Tahoe Basin. What the next decade will look like is being discussed. At a meeting in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Bring a knife and a canvas bag. Meet in the Mikasa parking lot. If a friend hadn’t emailed this message, I might have been alarmed. Friday the 13th turned out to be my lucky day. My first day to forage for morel mushrooms. Kim had been telling me about her escapades in […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe is taking a different course of action than ever before. It plans to implement its approved strategic plan. “If you don’t develop an action plan and then fund it, the plan sits on the shelf. And that’s why so many strategic plans fail,” Nancy Kerry, the city’s spokeswoman, explained […]
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