By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe is contemplating regulating the type of to-go containers restaurants use, whether retail outlets can sell Styrofoam and plastic utensils, the packaging of meat in grocery stores, and what egg cartons are made of. The elected officials on Tuesday gave staff direction to come back with verbiage for a ban […]
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By Jim Krajewski, Reno Gazette-Journal Lake Tahoe Community College has become a soccer powerhouse, thanks to several former local high school standouts. After 14 years without sports, Lake Tahoe CC brought athletics back in 2014 and is having one of its best seasons in memory, for both the men’s and women’s soccer teams. Coach Jeremy […]
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By Susan Wood It was like a back-to-the-future flashback on vacation home rentals at Lake Tahoe. Only this time, it was El Dorado County fielding the brunt of fiery opinions – not the city. On the same day South Lake Tahoe officials hashed out rules on vacation home rentals within their boundaries, El Dorado County […]
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By Kathryn Reed Data. It’s the four-letter word that could make the difference in the world of vacation home rentals in South Lake Tahoe. Instead of making arbitrary rules based on emotion, at least three City Council members want facts to guide their decision-making. Mayor Austin Sass with his pouting, fidgeting and lack of professionalism […]
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By Emily Benson, High Country News When their taps began spitting out air instead of water a few years ago, one family in Paso Robles was forced to snake a hose from a neighbor’s property into their home for drinking water. They ate from paper plates instead of dishes, could no longer wash their laundry […]
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By Stephen Saturno, Moonshine Ink How can it be that one of the biggest health concerns in our area goes mostly unnoticed? While most people have barely heard of radon, testing in our area is nearly nonexistent. Even when you buy a home, there’s a one-page disclosures section that’s buried in a 200-page document somewhere […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of stories about Lake Tahoe area athletes who hope to compete in the 2018 Olympics in South Korea. By Kathryn Reed PARK CITY, Utah – Age is not spoiling the free spirit known as Jamie Anderson. She still marches to her own drummer. She is just as […]
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By Dave Zook, Moonshine Ink That Tahoe/Truckee kids have a good amount of sporting options would be an understatement. There are the traditional ball sports that most Americans grow up with. And then there are the sports unique to a mountain town, such as mountain bike leagues and skiing — alpine, big mountain, and Nordic, […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Block after block of tidy housing tracts reduced to heaps of ash. Death counts in the double digits. Homeowners numbly poking through the ruins of domestic life. California has seen this before. But the harrowing images of loss and destruction usually come out of the south. “These kinds […]
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By Susan Wood When you’re a county dealing with record voter turnout as El Dorado did last year, you turn to a career record-keeping shoe-in to maintain order in this unpredictable world of government and politics. That is, until you can’t anymore. El Dorado County Registrar of Voters Bill Schultz, 84, has become a guru […]
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