By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee A 57-year-old injustice weighing on El Dorado County may have finally been lifted Wednesday, when Derrick Bonar raised a 90-pound piece of granite and carefully set it into wet concrete prepared by John Cooks. The two men, inmates from Folsom Prison, were installing the last of 36 new markers on […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – Tears of relief. Gearing up for the next hearing. Those were the reactions from the two sides in the divisive Washoe Meadows State Park, Upper Truckee River, Lake Tahoe Golf Course issue. On Friday, before a crowd that at times numbered more than 100 people, the California State Park and […]
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A South Lake Tahoe investment broker who in July pleaded not guilty to wire fraud switched her plea Oct. 21 to guilty. Lori Zoval, 46, was indicted in July 2010 on three charges of wire fraud stemming from an alleged investment fraud scheme in 2005-06. She declined a plea agreement in February. According to a […]
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By Kathryn Reed After a 90-minute closed session and another hour of discussing the issue in open session, Dale Rise’s colleagues on the South Tahoe Public Utility District board told him to apologize to the employee who brought a complaint against him. Rise, who is chair of the board, was out of the room during […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY — A report from the Tax Foundation on unemployment insurance taxes says 34 states have had to borrow $37 billion from the federal government to pay jobless benefits, and employers around the country face the prospect of higher tax rates as a result. “Businesses are in danger […]
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By Claudia Buck, Sacramento Bee Something didn’t smell right, and it certainly wasn’t carbon monoxide. Alert constituents and an inquisitive state senator’s office apparently halted a mail scam attempting to con homeowners, based on a new state law requiring carbon monoxide alarms. The scam was apparently run from a post office box directly across the […]
Read moreBy Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe has written a check for $39,130 to settle a case involving how police officers removed children from a home on the behalf of Child Protective Services. “The officers followed the policy and practice at the time (2008), and therefore I would not say they did anything ‘wrong.’ I would […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Vision – that is what has been missing from the South Shore. “If we are going to be a world-class outdoor destination, we need the commercial areas to complement the scenery,” Mike Bradford told Douglas County commissioners Thursday. The county in its quest to bring economic vitality to the lake […]
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By Kathryn Reed A homemade contraption to extract THC from marijuana, along with ecstasy and Oxycontin pills were seized from an apartment in South Lake Tahoe on Thursday afternoon. “This can blow up just as easily as a meth lab,” SLEDNET Cmdr. Jeff Catchings told Lake Tahoe News. “They are very dangerous, especially the type […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – The National Governors Association announced this week that Nevada has been selected as one of six states to participate in a Policy Academy on strengthening post-secondary education performance measures. The NGA defines a Policy Academy as a highly interactive, team-based process for helping a select number […]
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