By Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee The final leg of a European vacation ended abruptly early Saturday morning for three El Dorado County residents when the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground and tipped on its side off the Tuscany coast. Adam and Joanne Lynch of Pollock Pines and Phyllis Egan of Placerville were unhurt during […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – A state panel this week supported a request from the Department of Taxation for $260,000 to hire a team of auditors to track cigarette sales to protect a $40 million a year payment to Nevada from the nation’s major tobacco companies. As much as $360 million […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – News that a main sewer line may possibly run under where the intersection of highways 28 and 89 in Tahoe City could be relocated came as a surprise to transportation officials. Marcia Beals, general manager for the Tahoe-Truckee Sanitation Agency, dropped this piece of information on the Advisory Planning Commission […]
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By Wendy Koch, USA Today Drinking wastewater? The idea may sound distasteful, but new federally funded research says more Americans are doing so — whether they know it or not — and this reuse will be increasingly necessary as the U.S. population expands. Treated wastewater poses no greater health risks than existing water supplies and, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Kingsbury Middle School is officially for sale. The asking price is $4 million. The Douglas County School District board agreed to sell the parcel and buildings at its Jan. 10 meeting. This was one of many votes during the last few years about the closed site. The 36,000-square-foot school sits on 10 […]
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Publisher’s note: Nevada Department of Education is taking a survey about No Child Left Behind until Jan. 27. By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY — Nevada is joining with many other states in seeking a waiver from the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, a state panel was told this […]
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Douglas County School District is looking for input about how the four-day school week is working at Whittell High School. The Jan. 19 6pm meeting at the Zephyr Cove school will be facilitated by Steve Mulvenon, a consultant hired to lead the project. The 7-12 school went to four days a week starting in fall […]
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Adam McGill, 39, has been hired as Truckee’s police chief. He will be sworn in Feb. 22 at 4pm. He was the police chief in Newman, a small town in the Central Valley. For the last 18 months, McGill has worked for the U.S. State Department in Iraq as a senior police adviser. McGill has […]
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Enrollment at all four elementary schools in Lake Tahoe Unified School District is up from 2010, indicating declining enrollment is stabilizing. Overall enrollment is down by 20 students – the smallest drop since the decline started in 1996-97. Free and reduced lunch counts are up from 59.4 percent in 2010-11 to 62.5 percent this school […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal The winter that didn’t come may be on its way. Hopefully, anyway. After a record-making spate of sunny, dry weather kept conditions bone dry through December and half of January, a pattern change in the Pacific could be sending wet weather on its way. It’s still a ways off — […]
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