Publisher’s note: This is one of five Q&A profiles of a South Lake Tahoe City Council candidate running in the Nov. 6 election. Name: Bruce Grego Age: 59 How long have you lived in South Lake Tahoe?: 45 years Work/volunteer experience: Work History: I grew-up helping operate my parents’ motel for 30 years between 1967 […]
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By Hudson Sangree and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Homebuyers trying to take advantage of the current ultra-low mortgage rates are likely to discover an unpleasant truth: They’re competing with lots of other buyers who can pay all cash. The cash buyers aren’t just rental investors, who have occupied the lower end of the market for […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – The state Board of Examiners on Tuesday will consider settling a dispute with Washoe County over $21.5 million in local property tax revenue taken by the 2009 Legislature to balance the state budget. The proposed settlement would provide an immediate payment of $1.25 million to the […]
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By Maria Dinzeo, Courthouse News Service Members of a Judicial Council committee grilled California trial judges over courthouse construction costs in an effort to fund necessary projects while cutting costs by $390 million. Judges and officials from 23 local trial courts pleaded for funds from the council’s court facilities working group, complaining of perilously unsafe […]
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Two South Lake Tahoe teenagers were arrested Sept. 8 in connection with a burglary and tagging buildings, signs and vehicles. More than $3,000 work of spraypaint, markers and cash were stolen from a local store on Sept. 7. Police are neither releasing the address nor the name of the store. On Saturday, people started called […]
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By Laura Beil, Newsweek In his more than 35 years of practice, Dr. Lowell Schnipper has seen a lot of women die from breast cancer. A patient’s options start to dwindle by the time tumor cells set up outposts in the bones, lungs, and other organs, defying all attempts to keep them under control. But […]
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An El Dorado Hills massage therapist has been arrested on charges of false imprisonment and sexual battery. A woman reported she was receiving a massage from Patrick Lockard at Massage Envy in El Dorado Hills when he held her down and sexually battered her. Detectives began an investigation to corroborate her statements and eventually arrested […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the proposed 2012-13 budget for Lake Tahoe Community College is about $800,000 less than the previous year’s budget, the institution continues to rely on reserves to balance the budget. The $13.7 million budget, which is expected to be adopted at the Sept. 11 board meeting, includes about $732,000 from reserves. The […]
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News Environmental groups and their supporters hoping for a new wave of green laws from the Legislature this year ended up with barely a ripple. From a statewide effort to ban plastic bags, to limits on foam food packaging, most of the top environmental bills of the 2012 session […]
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Gino DiMatteo was denied bail at a hearing Sept. 7 in Placerville. The South Lake Tahoe resident accused of bribing City Councilwoman Angela Swanson and being in possession of drugs for sale is next scheduled to be in court on Sept. 10. DiMatteo’s bail is $27,500 for each of the four counts. However, there is […]
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