By Kathryn Reed Mattresses continue to be the No. 1 large bulk item that Clean Tahoe picks up. Televisions are a close second. Catherine Cecchi, executive director of the nonprofit, updated the South Lake Tahoe City Council on Tuesday about what her organization has been up to. “We have a number of problem properties where […]
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By Kathryn Reed Build the bike path that would link Meyers to Stateline. That was the idea that received the largest number of votes from the more than 50 people who attended a recreation meeting Dec. 11 at South Tahoe High School. Consultants putting together the South Lake Tahoe-El Dorado County Recreation Master Plan wanted […]
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By Kathryn Reed With Lakeview Commons still in its infancy, South Lake Tahoe officials are struggling to figure just what it should be. While the agenda topic Tuesday at the council meeting was to recap the summer concert series run by Rob and CarolAnne Giustina of OnCourse Events, much of the talk was about what […]
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By Kathryn Reed On a 4-1 vote the South Lake Tahoe City Council decided to waive all fines associated with the plastic bag ban for the first 90 days. The ban for grocery stores takes effect Jan. 15. Other retail outlets will be banned from using the single-use bags starting Oct. 15. Councilman Tom Davis […]
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By Edward Wyatt and Claire Cain Miller, New York Times Eight prominent technology companies, bruised by revelations of government spying on their customers’ data and scrambling to repair the damage to their reputations, are mounting a public campaign to urge President Obama and Congress to set new limits on government surveillance. On Monday the companies, […]
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Two Northern California men will spend time in jail and pay fines for poaching bears in El Dorado County. Peter George Vitali, 56, of Pioneer and Arthur Martin Blake, 59, of River Pines, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of illegally taking wildlife for profit. Vitali was fined $12,500 and Blake $5,000. Both must serve […]
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By Kathryn Reed Joseph Michael Nissensohn will never have the opportunity to hurt another woman. On Tuesday, a jury of 12 in South Lake Tahoe said he should die for his crimes. In October, the 62-year-old was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder. The remains of Kathy Graves, 15, of South Lake were […]
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By Andrew Doughman, Las Vegas Sun Here’s one for the holiday shoppers in Nevada whisking in and out of retail stores. No state business tax means you should be getting better prices here than in other states, right? After all, if businesses pay fewer taxes in Nevada than in other states, the savings ought to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Students at South Tahoe High School who are caught with or under the influence of drugs, including alcohol, get what amounts to a three-day vacation from school. That could change. In the past the school had a diversion program where students would get counseling as part of the process. With cutbacks in […]
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By Jason Blevins, Denver Post Vail Resorts lost $73.4 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2014, compared to $60.6 million for the same period last year. The resort company typically loses big in the August-through-October first quarter, when it ramps up for the ski season without actually hosting skiers. Vail Resort chief Rob Katz […]
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