Twenty-six people applied to be director of the resurrected community education program at Lake Tahoe Community College, with Megan Waskiewicz coming out on top. She will start the 20-hour week job July 1. With the state changing how it pays colleges and the local community clamoring for enrichment classes, the college has come up with […]
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By Kathryn Reed Art isn’t usually the first word business owners or residents think of when they see graffiti marring structures. While tagging is nothing new on the South Shore, it has been cropping up in more visible locations in the past six weeks. Adidas was hit in early May just below the roofline, with […]
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By Kathryn Reed The last class of preschoolers may have graduated from Kindertown. Kindertown Preschool and Daycare is being forced to lock its doors at the end of the day June 24. While most of Friday morning was about proud parents taking pictures of their little ones dressed in pink and blue caps and gowns, […]
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With three public sessions to get feedback from about what to do with the shuttered Kingsbury Middle School site completed earlier this month, the next step is to get appraisals on the Zephyr Cove site. Douglas County School District Superintendent Lisa Noonan updated the board Tuesday afternoon about what the public had to say and […]
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By Kathryn Reed If an umpire had been in the room, several “players” would have been ejected. And it was a good thing no children were there Thursday night, even though the subject matter was recreation. These grown men don’t all play nice together. What brought them to the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Complex was […]
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Within seconds of taking a sip of what she thought was water, Julia Ellis doubled over at the bar at Harveys Lake Tahoe. The casino’s mistake of serving her a highly toxic cleaning solution instead of bottled water resulted in a jury this week rendering a verdict that Ellis be paid $3.25 million in damages […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Drought One of the biggest costs of California’s recent drought went largely unnoticed, according to a report that estimates state ratepayers paid $1.7 billion to replace lost hydropower with natural gas generation that also pumped millions of tons of pollutants into the atmosphere. “Some of the drought’s most direct […]
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By Kathryn Reed Now there’s a state budget, now there’s not. This fiscal gamesmanship California lawmakers are playing may ensure they keep getting a salary, but it is creating an eraser hole in ledgers up and down the state. Lake Tahoe Unified and Lake Tahoe Community College boards of education on June 14 discussed their […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee With local governments facing historically tight times, some are asking whether elected officials should forgo district discretionary funds. In Placer County, two supervisors are asking that their $20,000 in unrestricted funds be tossed back into the general fund. Sacramento County and the cities of Sacramento and Roseville are among the […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee State prison officials said today that they had settled Phillip and Nancy Garrido into their new homes after a nearly two-year stay at the El Dorado County Jail while they awaited trial for kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard. Phillip Garrido arrived at Corcoran State Prison today, where he will be processed […]
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