By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Airport in the near future may not be run by people on South Lake Tahoe’s payroll. “It’s not so much what we save in employee costs, as it is having a more entrepreneurial approach to managing the airport,” City Manager Tony O’Rourke told Lake Tahoe News. “We have vacancies in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Kindertown Day Care and Preschool will not open Monday. It may never open again, at least not with Maria Barrows-Crist as owner-operator. Officials from the California Department of Social Services showed up at the South Lake Tahoe center Friday about lunchtime with an order from a judge stating the center would be […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee Kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard has produced her first public service announcement in support of the JAYC Foundation which offers support to families that have suffered abduction or other traumatic incidents. Dugard was kidnapped by Phillip Garrido in 1991 when she was 11 and held for years in his home. […]
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With bids coming in higher than expected, Edgewood Companies decided to rebid the Bonanza Park project in South Lake Tahoe. People are expected to be using the Y area park in 2012. The plan is construction will start as close to May 1 as weather allows. Brandon Hill with Edgewood Companies told Lake Tahoe News […]
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While stars are in the sky first thing this Friday morning, there is definitely plenty of snow to shovel in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Most highways in and around the basin have some restrictions. For details, click on the state icons on the home page of Lake Tahoe News. However, the white stuff is not […]
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By Leslie Kaufman, New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — From the cotton field in rural India to the local rag bin, a typical pair of blue jeans consumes 919 gallons of water during its life cycle, Levi Strauss & Company says, or enough to fill about 15 spa-size bathtubs. That includes the water that goes […]
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By Kathryn Reed If only transportation improvements moved as fast as technology. No need to use paper or stickers, a computer program can collect the same information more efficiently. Analysis But where was the bus to get people to that technology? Instead, the parking lot was full. And this, at a meeting about transportation where […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Hunters might be quietly stalking Nevada’s woods, but the policy decision that put them there was decidedly noisy. It packed meeting rooms, led to candlelight vigils and marches on the governor’s mansion. Nevada’s first black bear hunt, now under way and possibly nearing an end, is described as the state’s […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal A Reno man reported missing Thursday morning to the Reno Police Department was rescued late Thursday morning after his vehicle was found over an embankment in Alpine County. Few details were available about the case, but the California Highway Patrol reports the man was found in the vehicle at about 10:48am in […]
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More time. That’s what Randy Lane has been given by a bankruptcy court judge in Sacramento. January is the next scheduled court date for the convention center debtor and creditors. Last month Lane asked for more time to come up with a plan for the 11-plus acre site that has languished in bankruptcy since October […]
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