Two Marines, one from El Dorado County, who are from 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion will be posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for actions while deployed to Afghanistan last year. The awards will be received by the families of Staff Sgt. Sky R. Mote and Capt. Matthew P. Manoukian, respectively, during a ceremony at 1st […]
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By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times California community college students starting in fall 2016 will have to meet minimum academic standards to receive financial assistance under rules approved by the system Monday. The California Community Colleges Board of Governors voted to require that students maintain a minimum 2.0 GPA for two consecutive terms and complete […]
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By Kathryn Reed In the same week South Lake Tahoe’s anti-paid parking advocates secured enough signatures to forward their petition to the El Dorado County Elections Department, members were given documents from a 2011 Southern California case that prohibits the initiative process from getting rid of parking meters in any city. Bruce Grego, who has […]
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By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times From many corners of the United States — Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Mississippi — recent years have brought heartening news about the relentless rise in obesity among American children: Several years into a campaign to get kids to eat better and exercise more, child obesity rates have appeared to stabilize, […]
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By Dan Gorenstein, Marketplace For the first time the federal government has tallied up the arts and culture contribution to the nation’s economy. It turns out that sector, movies, painting, publishing, cable and more, was worth half a trillion dollars — 3 percent to the gross domestic product in 2011. That’s more than the travel […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of blurbs about how the lack of winter is impacting businesses in the Lake Tahoe Basin. If you have an idea, please email it to info@LakeTahoeNews.net. Lack of snow means South Lake Tahoe officials are able to repair roads. “Our crews do crack sealing and minor patching […]
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STATELINE – While there were no bids for the former Kingsbury Middle School to the Douglas County school board to discuss Jan. 14, that could change. Douglas County School District Superintendent Lisa Noonan asked the board to put the item on the agenda monthly instead of quarterly. Which they agreed to do. The next meeting […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe is in the unique position of having about $1.2 million to spend mid-year. While the numbers are not astronomical, it is a change from the austerity and deficit modes the city has been faced with in recent years. The “extra” money is carry-over from the last fiscal year that […]
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An El Dorado County resident has died from the flu. Officials are not releasing the age, gender or hometown of the individual even though counties throughout California provide that information to the media. The person is not a Lake Tahoe resident. “Due to patient privacy laws we cannot provide that level of information regarding the […]
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Updated Jan. 14 7:55pm: By Kathryn Reed Sierra-at-Tahoe was evacuated Tuesday afternoon after someone phoned in a bomb threat. The call came in about 3pm Jan. 14 to the season pass office. Resort and law enforcement officials were not releasing any details about the caller, what was said or potential motive. El Dorado County sheriff’s […]
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