Publisher’s note: Click on the link below to read the Sacramento Bee’s mini Q&A with the six El Dorado County sheriff candidates. The candidates are: John D’Agostini, former Amador sheriff’s deputy and DA investigator Larry Hennick, retired El Dorado County sheriff’s deputy Ernie Hillman, former El Dorado County undersheriff Bob Luca, retired chief, California Bureau […]
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By Kathryn Reed Douglas County School District still doesn’t know who its next superintendent is going to be. The board interviewed two candidates Monday night at the Minden office before a room of more than a dozen people. Board members Cindy Trigg and Karen Chessell were participating via telephone. The first motion was to have […]
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On May 1 at 1:48am Truckee police officers were dispatched to a reported street fight involving a handgun inside the Donner Creek Mobile Home Park. Officers located trails of blood that led to one of the mobile homes. Several people were inside the mobile home. Three had suffered knife and assault injuries and one had […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Favorable winter weather should reduce wildfire danger across most of Nevada and much of the Sierra this summer, federal experts said in a report released Monday. While parts of the Pacific Northwest are at significant risk of wildfire, the situation looks more favorable in western Nevada and most of the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Barton Health has trimmed its payroll even further, with 16 people taking early retirement packages at the end of April. Employees with at least 10 years of service and who are 59 or older qualified for the package. The South Lake Tahoe health care system offered the incentive in hopes of not […]
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By Kathryn Reed When Kingsbury Middle School closed two years ago no one thought it would re-open. That thinking was solidified with the approval of Douglas County School District’s facilities master plan. The plan that was OK’d by the board in April calls for getting rid of the Stateline parcel or at a minimum lease […]
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Caltrans will be working on Highway 28 now through Oct. 15. This is the third season of construction of a $46 million drainage reconstruction and environmental improvement project east of Tahoe City. Motorists can expect delays from 7am-5pm Monday through Friday from three miles east of Tahoe City to Tahoe Vista. Work will consist of […]
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By Frank X. Mullen Jr., Reno Gazette-Journal Contrary to recent media reports sparked by a university’s news release, the Donner Party of 1846-47 did cannibalize the dead, Western historians, authors and a bone researcher said. The clarifications were based on a flurry of stories last week, which included headlines like: “Oops! Donner Party Gets Apology” […]
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Recreation, forest health, fuels reduction, wildlife habitat, watershed restoration and aquatic habitat will be the subject of meetings next month conducted by the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the U.S. Forest Service. The public is encouraged to attend to learn about and comment on the forest plan revision, which is agency’s blue print of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Change. It’s the one constant for students, parents and educators at the lake schools in Douglas County School District. More change is in the works. One day there will be only one school – a K-12 on the campus of Whittell High School. This won’t happen for several years, but still, just […]
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