By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee Bulldozers aren’t typically welcome sights around Lake Tahoe, but just outside Tahoe City they’re being used by construction workers and engineers to restore the natural habitat – not disturb it. The project calls for turning 35 North Shore acres prepared for a failed condominium development back into natural marshland. At […]
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By Kathryn Reed Looking for Lake Tahoe Community College’s fall schedule? It’s going to be a little harder to find a hard copy of the two-year institution’s schedule as it follows the lead of other colleges by not mailing them out as well as reducing the content. Officials envision the print version going away completely […]
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By Alia Wilson, Santa Cruz Sentinel EMIGRANT GAP – Two people, both believed to be from Santa Cruz County, died in a plane crash in the Sierra Nevada Friday afternoon, authorities reported. Don French, manager of the Watsonville Municipal Airport, confirmed that the plane left from Watsonville on Friday morning. The single-engine Piper Cherokee Arrow […]
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By Kathryn Reed Another major entity on the South Shore is headed for bankruptcy. Joining the failed convention center in debtors’ court is South Tahoe Area Transit Authority. The board, at least those members who showed up for the Aug. 13 meeting, unanimously agreed to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Nevada. With bills topping […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee A man from the Madera County community of Bass Lake has been arrested on suspicion of a making a bomb threat at a Walmart store in El Dorado County. Nicholas Gregorio, 18, was taken into custody Thursday at a residence on Forni Road in Placerville. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s […]
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Updated Aug. 16, 2010, at 12:18pm. By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe and El Dorado County officials have resolved their differences regarding redevelopment. The City Council, acting as the Redevelopment Agency, had a special meeting at 4:30pm Friday to approve the agreement. The vote was 3-0, with Councilman Bill Crawford leaving before the vote and […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee The Placer County Sheriff’s Department is working to identify two people who were found dead this afternoon inside a crashed airplane near Emigrant Gap. The plane, a single-engine Piper Cherokee Arrow, initially was believed to have departed from Watsonville for Auburn, but a Federal Aviation spokesman said later information indicated […]
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By Tony Bizjak, Sacramento Bee State highway officials said Wednesday they may be forced to slow or halt more than $3 billion worth of road projects statewide – including several in the Sacramento area – if the state budget is not passed by September. Several planned projects already have been placed on hold pending budget […]
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By Kathryn Reed Gary Moore is ready to redefine recreation. South Lake Tahoe’s director of Parks and Recreation is retiring Oct. 1. His wife, Angela, is retiring the day before as manager of the infusion center at Barton Memorial Hospital. Travel is a big part of their plans – and recreating. Tahoe will always be […]
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By Dan Johnson, Argus-Courier A 2010 graduate of Petaluma High School broke his neck while diving at South Lake Tahoe on Tuesday, and is paralyzed from the chest down. Danny Cox, the son of Graffiti restaurant owner Maureen McGowan, was on vacation at a beach, playing with some friends, when he did a flat dive […]
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