Voters will have choices in each of the Nov. 8 races on the South Shore. Business owner Kelly Sheehan is challenging Dale Rise for his seat on the South Tahoe Public Utility District board. Marylou Mosbacher is stepping down from that board. Going after that seat are retired district employee Claude Gunsch, homemaker Mary Kortge, […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – The Board of Examiners today approved a request for more than half a million dollars from a legislative contingency fund to pay the counties for the cost of the Sept. 13 special election in the 2nd Congressional District. The board, made up of Gov. Brian Sandoval, […]
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A high-priority bike path project in South Lake Tahoe has received the necessary funding — the El Dorado Beach to Ski Run route. This is a missing link in South Lake Tahoe and is listed as the highest priority project in the Lake Tahoe Region Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan. South Lake Tahoe, Caltrans, and the […]
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By Steve Timko, Reno Gazette-Journal High costs for treating insured adults makes Carson City the 10th most expensive metropolitan area in the United States for health care costs, a study released Wednesday said. Carson City has an annual health care cost of $5,931 per person for people with employer-sponsored health insurance, according to the report […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee State attorneys have taken on the possible prosecution of Gloria Mas, an El Dorado County deputy district attorney who was arrested in July on suspicion of drunken driving. Mas was arrested in the early afternoon of July 25 at the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office after witnesses said she […]
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By Rick Daysog, Sacramento Bee The search for 2-year-old Madeline Samaan-Fay ended tragically Saturday night after FBI agents found the toddler’s remains in a remote area of El Dorado County. Federal officials issued an Amber Alert on Friday after the curly-haired child was abducted by her father, 49-year-old Mourad “Moni” Samaan. FBI agents discovered Samaan’s […]
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By Claudia Buck, Sacramento Bee The IRS may have “missing money” waiting for you. Millions of dollars in refunds owed to thousands of California taxpayers haven’t been claimed, says the IRS. There are two kinds of refund monies: undelivered and unclaimed. If your paper refund check was returned to the IRS as “undeliverable” by the […]
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By Diana Lambert, Sacramento Bee Five years ago, California education officials jumped aboard the data bandwagon. Nudged by federal mandates and competition for federal school dollars, California applied for and won a $6 million competitive federal grant to develop a data system to track teacher information, similar to a system the state is developing to […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – Secretary of State Ross Miller is seeking more than half a million dollars from a legislative contingency fund to pay the counties for the cost of the Sept. 13 special election in the 2nd Congressional District. The request for $539,137 from the Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee […]
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Many young children are getting a head start on acquiring the skills needed to read, as family members take time out of their day on a regular basis to read aloud with them, the U.S. Census Bureau reports. In 2009, half of children ages 1 to 5 were read to seven or more times a […]
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