By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College is getting an interim president who likes to fix things and has experience with the accreditation process. The brief special board meeting this morning was all about hiring someone for this coming school year. On a 5-0 vote, Steve Maradian was voted in. He will start Aug. 31. […]
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By Kathryn Reed A throng of citizens demonstrated Thursday that getting involved in the government process can bring change. It took most of the morning session and until 3 that afternoon, but in the end the South Lake Tahoe City Council unanimously agreed to form a committee to help create an ordinance regarding marijuana cultivation […]
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By Susan Voyles, Reno Gazette-Journal To keep homegrown special events from taking flight, the Reno City Council is on the verge of setting new rules requiring special event producers to promise not to put on a similar event within 45 days before or after their events in Reno. If they break the rule, they’d pay […]
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By Shannon Laney The problem of impaired driving is a serious one. While America witnessed a decline in the number of DUI fatalities in recent years, the numbers are still too high. That’s why the Avoid the 6 DUI Task Force Campaign today announced it will join other law enforcement agencies throughout the country in […]
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By Erin Kelly, Gannett News Service WASHINGTON – While U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Republican U.S. Senate challenger Sharron Angle, a former assemblywoman, debate whether the federal government has helped or hurt Nevada, economists say there’s little doubt the state would be in even worse shape without aid from Washington. Money from […]
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By Mike Filce While so much news about education these days highlights the negative, we need look no further than a small local school for the positive. St. Theresa School, going strong since reopening in August 1994, approaches standardized testing differently from its counterparts. Students in grades 2-8 take the ITBS (Iowa Test of Basic […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee Placer County is considering expanding a program that allows the county or local fire districts to step in for negligent property owners by clearing brush and reducing the risk of wildfires. The county’s hazardous vegetation abatement program has been running as a pilot program for the fire districts north and […]
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By Kara LaPoint, Reno Gazette-Journal In June of this year, 14,601 Nevada residents applied for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, which are more commonly known as food stamps. Of those applications, nearly 90 percent were processed within 30 days as required by the federal government. But last year, more applicants were left waiting, especially in […]
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Three Truckee residents were arrested related to a string of burglaries this week. On Aug. 16 at about 5:30am, an in-progress residential burglary was reported in the Sierra Meadows subdivision of Truckee. Officers responded and arrested two suspects after a short foot pursuit. A third person was identified through investigation as being involved and was […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE — No documents to sign. No grand announcement of buckets of money coming to Lake Tahoe. No new threat to the lake. Tuesday’s annual environmental summit was more of an update on what is going on than anything else. The economy was a last-minute add as a topic, which was […]
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