By Susan Wood With the new concessionaire opting out, it’s back to square one for the seemingly endless circle of political debate over who will run the general store and marina at Fallen Leaf Lake. Rick Firkins, a caterer with a business based in Albuquerque and home in Christmas Valley, sent the Community Services District […]
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By Kathryn Reed Tim Cohee’s dream of owning a ski resort may be realized in a matter of days. Long known as the voice of Kirkwood Mountain Resort’s ski report, as well as president 13 of the 17 years he’s been at the Lake Tahoe area resort, Cohee and a group of investors have put […]
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By Shanna McCord, Santa Cruz Sentinel LAKE TAHOE — With new jobs hard to find, some of the unemployed are heading to the mountains to look for work, even if the work only lasts as long as the snow. Lake Tahoe ski resort officials say they’ve seen a significant surge in the number of applicants […]
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By Gus Thomson, Auburn Journal With 2010 census packages due to be delivered to every household in the nation starting mid-month, concern is mounting that Placer and surrounding counties may lose out in the count. A projected $38 billion in federal funding is tied to census totals in the six-county area surrounding Auburn over the […]
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By Kathryn Reed John Andoh no longer has a job in Lake Tahoe. For the last two years he has been transit administrator for the South Shore’s bus system. On Friday, the attorney for the South Tahoe Area Transit Authority told Andoh to pack his things and be out by 5pm. Andoh said his initial […]
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By Alan B. Goldberg and Sarah Netter, ABC News The home video shows a portrait of a healing family — a mother and her two daughters baking cookies, riding horses and laughing together. After sustaining years of abuse, Dugard discusses her long recovery. It’s the first glimpse at the freedom kidnap survivor Jaycee Dugard has […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee Good news is relative and El Dorado County officials took some satisfaction this week that the county is in better fiscal shape than some neighboring jurisdictions. After months of layoffs, furloughs and cuts in services, staff members said the county should be able to avoid further layoffs this fiscal year, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Students, educators and concerned citizens on Thursday took to the streets up and down California and in many other states to protest the spigot being turned off on education spending. “I was supposed to transfer a year ago. I had to stay here,†said Rachel Sa-Onoy, president of Lake Tahoe Community College’s […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal A snowshoer missing since Tuesday in the Castle Peak area of Donner Summit, was found about 12:45pm, the Nevada County Sheriff’s Department reports. Initially information is not clear but Kevin Bradstreet Davis, 28, of Tahoe City is alive and being taken to a hospital for treatment, the sheriff’s department reported. His condition […]
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By Kathryn Reed Water officials know that just because Congress has been forthcoming with money in the past for fire suppression projects, doesn’t mean it will happen again. But with more than 80 percent of the Lake Tahoe Basin belonging to the federal government and bipartisan support from the California and Nevada delegations, the odds […]
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