By Kathryn Reed A lackluster economy is boding well for South Tahoe Public Utility District. It means instead of 1,525 water meters being installed in 2010, a total of 2,775 will be. This is the result of the initial bid coming in much less than anticipated. The district expected to use the bulk of its […]
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Gov. Jim Gibbons this month announced his intention to sponsor a major initiative to completely eliminate landfills as presently known. “There have been huge leaps in recycling technology,†Gibbons said in a statement. “We can conserve natural resources, create clean energy and create jobs by looking at landfills not as places where we bury our […]
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It may be a bit awkward tonight at the Lake Tahoe Unified School District board of education meeting. With challenger Judy Cefalu now 11 votes ahead of Duane Wallace, it’s just a matter of time before she replaces him on the board. The El Dorado County Elections Department expects to certify the Nov. 3 election […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Nancy Garrido’s court-appointed attorney has been removed from the case, pending a possible appeal later this month, court records indicate. The move took place last Thursday in a secret court hearing during which only Nancy Garrido, defense attorney Gilbert Maines, court staff and security officers were present, according to El […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority is making a concerted effort to leave the blue world behind. The multimillion dollar “blue world” ad campaign never quite had the ring to it that tourism officials had hoped, and certainly not the buy-in from the South Shore community that it was intended to promote. The 2010 […]
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By Kathryn Reed When the South Lake Tahoe City Council meets in a week it is expected to discuss the possibility of creating a moratorium on medicinal marijuana collectives. Most of the councilmembers have said the three collectives in town are more than enough. Cody Bass with the Tahoe Wellness Center told the council on […]
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By Jim Sloan, Sacramento Bee Few businesses feel as threatened by global warming as the ski industry. And few resorts are poised to go to the same lengths — and expense — to combat it as Kirkwood and the hardy folks who make their homes in the snowy, windswept Kirkwood Meadows. Although only a few […]
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By Ed Vogel, Las Vegas Review-Journal RENO — A California company might become the first from another state to practice “telemedicine” in Nevada. The Board of Medical Examiners was told Friday by its lawyers that it cannot prevent the Clinician Medical Group of Bakersfield from using television technology to treat Nevadans. Board lawyers Edward Cousineau […]
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By Kathryn Reed A valuable piece of real estate in South Lake Tahoe sits idle — used only by people taking a shortcut from Ski Run Boulevard to Highway 50. City staff hopes to have development ideas in place so the City Council can vote on them in January. “A large restaurant on the corner […]
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An altercation at Red Hawk casino near Shingles Springs last month culminated in the arrests of five people Friday, seizure of several guns, ecstasy, marijuana and cash. Search warrants were executed simultaneously at four locations by El Dorado County sheriff’s SWAT, Folsom Police SWAT, Sacramento County sheriff’s SWAT and Stanislaus County sheriff’s SWAT. One was […]
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