By Northern Nevada Business Weekly Zephyr Photonics Inc., a manufacturer of highly sophisticated optical devices, said last week it’s offering manufacturing services at its plant at Lake Tahoe to outside customers. The upshot may be increased employment over the next couple of years for the company, which has employed about 30 people in recent years. […]
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A domestic violence call in Meyers on Monday ended with 6 pounds of marijuana being confiscated in Stateline. A 20-year-old woman called El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies at 10:08am Feb. 11 saying her 28-year-old husband had hurt her. He was not at the Delaware Street residence when deputies arrived. “While deputies were interviewing [the woman] […]
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The 911 system in Washoe County is having problems. The local land line phone system is currently experiencing issues at this time. Parts of Washoe County, Reno, Sparks and Carson City have been affected. As a result, some residents’ land line phone service is temporarily unavailable. Citizens who are experiencing an emergency where they need […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Sierra Club and Friends of the West Shore filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Sacramento to stop the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Regional Plan from taking effect in its entirety. “We hope to achieve a reconciliation with the TRPA over their plan and get it strengthened,” Laurel Ames […]
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By Kathryn Reed The South Lake Tahoe City Council is ready to fight. “I believe our rules have purpose and when they are broken knowingly, we should not settle,” Councilwoman Brooke Laine said. The four met Feb. 11 to continue last week’s discussion of whether to take the City Attorney’s Office recommendation to settle the […]
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By Eli Segall, Las Vegas Sun With the Nevada Legislature back in session, a real estate lobbying group has a slate of issues it wants lawmakers to consider. The most important is whether to change the state’s controversial “robosigning” law. The Nevada Association of Realtors is pushing for changes to the law while at the […]
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By Loretta Kalb, Sacramento Bee Cordova Hills, the newly approved 2,700-acre development in southeast Sacramento County, isn’t the only locale aiming to lure a private university. Cordova Hills won 4-1 approval last week from the county Board of Supervisors, based at least in part on the appeal of the developer’s plan to seek a university […]
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STATELINE – Free buses at the end of December helped BlueGo increase its ridership by 39 percent compared to 2011 for the same month. Curtis Garner, who runs the South Shore bus system, called the 131,545 passenger trips in December “extraordinary”. He gave a presentation to the Tahoe Transportation District board on Feb. 8. TTD […]
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The Fresh Ketch in South Lake Tahoe has new owners. Longtime owner Bob Hassett has sold the restaurant to the majority owners of the Tahoe Keys Marina – Donna and Robert Krilich of Illinois. Details of the transaction that closed in January have not been disclosed. Neither Hassett nor Donna Krilich returned calls. This means […]
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By Kathryn Reed One by one businesses at the Factory Stores at the Y have been closing. Now the whole center is on the auction block. While the notice of default was filed in June 2012, the trustee sale is scheduled for Feb. 27 in Placerville. Sisters Shannon Casteel and Nancy Irmer, who own the […]
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