To the community, Lukins Brothers Water Company has been working with the city of South Lake Tahoe to secure funding for their system upgrades. Unbeknownst to them, the city was working with South Tahoe Public Utility District to take the system. Since July 2009, the city on behalf of Lukins has been applying for grants. […]
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Dear All, It appears that someone is illegally posting our signs. For the past week, we’ve taken down signs, only to find them posted again. Furthermore, someone is nailing our campaign signs to telephone poles, something I specifically warned against to everyone we gave signs. None of my volunteers has any idea who is doing […]
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Lake Tahoe News welcomes and encourages a lively, though civil, discussion as election season heats up. Everyone’s opinion is important and relevant. If you disagree with what is written, feel free to say so. But refrain from attacking the person who wrote about something you disagree with. Attack the words, not the messenger. Plenty of […]
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Dear members of the South Lake Tahoe City Council, Although I have publicly commended the council for the new cultivation ordinance, recent events have made me realize that this ordinance is clearly unconstitutional and represents a profound threat to the freedom and safety of city residents and their innocent family pets. I urge the council […]
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By Tina Barna On Oct. 8, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in his completion of the 2010-11 budget eliminated child care services for low income working families in Stage 3. This single act destroys California’s 15-year investment in moving families from welfare to work and places thousands of California families on the unemployment and welfare rolls and […]
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Dear Publisher, I see there are several of your readers who allege the TRPA is “the law” and that we have no choice but to do as we are told. These comments also allege that I am wrong and don’t know the law. However, any eighth-grade student can read the TRPA Charter and determine that […]
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Who and what to vote for? Those are questions Californians who vote by mail are asking themselves now, Nevadans who vote early will soon answer and everyone else will decide Nov. 2. On the South Shore, three seats are open on the South Lake Tahoe City Council and the two Douglas County Commission incumbents are […]
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By Scott McKain When it comes to the health of the planet, I think of myself as a happy pessimist. After all, nobody gets out of here alive. There is no need to get cranky about it. But a recent scientific article in Nature magazine really shook me. It also took me back to my […]
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To the community, Bijou Community School would like to thank the Rotary Club of South Lake Tahoe and the Rotaracts from LTCC for generously donating their time to help our parent volunteer group plant trees around Bijou’s new field. We would also like to thank Aspen Hollow for their generous donation of these trees. It […]
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By Steve Kubby South Lake Tahoe is in the middle of an economic catastrophe. Unemployment is above 20 percent. Our construction industry is in collapse. We need immediate action to create jobs in our struggling community. We have thousands of homeowners and businesses who desperately want to make property repairs and improvements. People want to […]
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