By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe has begun the process to refinance Measure S bonds without the proper authority to do so. The city is one of three entities that is part of the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Facilities Joint Powers Authority. The others are El Dorado County and Tahoe Paradise Resort Improvement District. It […]
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Two men armed with at least one gun and wearing masks robbed a South Lake Tahoe gas station Saturday night. Officials are not saying how much money the men stole from the USA gas station at 2470 Lake Tahoe Blvd. The suspects entered the store area of the station about 10:30pm Oct. 8, “pulled a […]
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Updated: Oct. 17, 2011. As part of the Regional Plan update, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency has released the public draft of an overhauled Code of Ordinances that is more than 1 pound lighter than the current code. Most of the changes in the draft document will not need to wait next year’s scheduled adoption […]
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By Kathryn Reed “Can we trust Lahontan to protect our interests? I don’t know.” Those were South Lake Tahoe City Councilman Bruce Grego’s words at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Lahontan was in the building to give a presentation about the likelihood of the water board soon allowing pesticides to be used to eradicate aquatic invasive […]
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Placer County Board of Supervisors’ final public hearing prior to approving a final redistricting map for the county is Oct. 11. Public comments on the proposed final map will be taken at 10am during the regularly scheduled board meeting which begins at 9am. As required by state law, the board members are realigning district boundaries […]
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By Kathryn Reed Maintaining improvements made to private properties that were paid for with public money is creating a conundrum for the South Lake Tahoe City Council. While the work has yet to be done in the Bijou area along Highway 50, the wheels are in motion for the erosion control project to be a […]
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By Mark Grossi, Fresno Bee Researchers from UC Merced were awarded a $2 million federal grant to develop a revolutionary network for tracking the Sierra snowpack as the climate warms. The National Science Foundation money will support a four-year project to install a massive web of wireless sensors in the 2,000-square-mile American River Basin in […]
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Richard Rubsamen tendered his resignation as president of Sierra Nevada College on Friday. Provost Lynn Gillette will be the new president effective Nov. 1. Board member and Finance Committee Chair Atam Lalchandani announced to staff and faculty on Oct. 7 that Rubsamen made the offer recognizing that administration costs were top-heavy. He further noted that […]
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By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee Assembly records show that Bob Blumenfield spent $150,099 to run his office for the first eight months of this legislative year. None of his colleagues, in fact, spent more than $297,579, according to budget information Assembly leaders recently made public. Yet the Woodland Hills Democrat actually spent more than three […]
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By Kathryn Reed On the second anniversary of filing for bankruptcy on the scrapped convention center project in South Lake Tahoe, Randy Lane filed a fourth amended reorganization plan. What he filed Oct. 4 asks for more time – 270 days. The bankruptcy judge in Sacramento is expected to make a ruling Nov. 1. Creditors […]
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