By Kathryn Reed A counselor and two teachers at South Tahoe Middle School, two teachers at South Tahoe High School, two custodians, a teacher at the Independent Learning Academy, the human resources director, the English learner coordinator. Those are all the positions slashed Tuesday night from the Lake Tahoe Unified School District’s payroll for 2011-12. […]
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By Kathryn Reed B.J. Sullivan, president of Clark & Sullivan Builders, assured the South Lake Tahoe City Council his company would have Lakeview Commons done by October. Last fall his firm successfully sued to have work on the multimillion dollar project at El Dorado Beach stopped, citing a flawed bid process. Clark & Sullivan won […]
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On Feb. 9, Caltrans will have a drop-in style open house for residents of Tahoe Vista, local officials and other interested parties to discuss Highway 28 lane reconfiguration plans and receive comments. Caltrans staff will be on hand to answer questions about the project. The open house will be from 4-7pm at Kings Beach Elementary […]
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By Loretta Kalb, Sacramento Bee In some ways, Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed elimination of California’s Land Conservation Act is just one more symbol of the state’s great budget disaster. For many agricultural advocates, the consequences of abandoning a long-held strategy to preserve farmland and open space go well beyond the state’s projected $25.4 billion deficit. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Reusing portables isn’t possible. That’s the message the state Department of Education has delivered to Lake Tahoe Unified School District officials. This is because the overcrowded relief grant money is designed to rid campuses of portables, not move them around to be used in a different manner. South Tahoe High and South […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal Ellen Oppenheim quit Monday after five years as CEO of the Reno Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority, saying she needs more time to care for her ill mother in Texas. She leaves behind ongoing financial struggles at the tourism agency where in the past two years, the budget built on […]
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By J. Patrick Coolican, Las Vegas Sun Eric Glyman is exactly the type of young person Nevada needs to reinvent itself. The 20-year-old graduate of Green Valley High School was a valedictorian, science olympiad and member of the speech and debate and track and field teams. Now a junior at Harvard, he’s majoring in Chinese […]
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California Highway Patrol officers will conduct a “zero tolerance” cell phone enforcement day, aimed at citing drivers who are distracted by their cell phones for 24 hours starting Feb. 8 at 6am. The campaign is designed to deter people from using their cell phones if they don’t have a hands-free device or who are texting […]
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By Susan Voyle, Reno Gazette-Journal Fourteen years after the New Year’s Day flood in 1997 roared into downtown Reno and left a shimmering lake at the Sparks industrial zone and the airport, Washoe County and Sparks have approved a new management authority to oversee the long-planned Truckee River flood control project. The Reno City Council, […]
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By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada needs to make tough choices and identify which priorities it can address now with its limited resources if it wants to emerge from the current downturn with a viable economy. That was the consensus of a panel of business and community leaders that met Wednesday at the University of […]
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