By Kathryn Reed South Tahoe Public Utility District is facing unexpected multimillion-dollar equipment expenses. Two of the three aeration units at the sewer plant need to be replaced. When the PVC pipe started to require multiple repairs the material was sent out to be investigated to see why it was failing. The plastic and couplers […]
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By Peter Scheer The public has grown accustomed to “pay to play” scandals and other misconduct at CalPERS, the nation’s largest public employee pension plan with over $300 million in investments. Still, the former CEO’s guilty plea entered in federal court last week was shocking even by CalPERS’ standards. Frederico Buenrostro, CalPERS’ top official from […]
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The U.S. Forest Service won’t be thinning fuels near Echo Lakes anytime soon. This is because a judge this week agreed more time is needed to determine the impacts to the yellow-legged frog. The USFS has agreed not to thin trees in this area on Echo Summit until at least after Oct. 15. Consultations with […]
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By Geoff Baker, Seattle Times MCKENZIE PASS, Ore. — Seattle native Joe McConaughy smiles as he bounds into a wooded clearing and spots the familiar green truck. When you’ve speed-hiked 55 miles per day for six weeks over mountains, boulders and creeks, dodging the odd bear and rattlesnake, that dirt-covered Honda Pilot had better be […]
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By Cameron Hunt McNabb, Salon In 2007, BBC reporter and presenter John Humphrys wrote an essay pointedly titled: “I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language.” In it, Humphyrs lamented that: “the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan […]
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Publisher’s note: Erline Christopherson, the first woman to complete a length-wise swim of Lake Tahoe, will talk about her experience Aug. 20 at 6pm at the South Lake Tahoe Library. By Erline Christopherson As a young child, I always wanted to be in the water and by age 4 I could swim. As soon as […]
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South Lake Tahoe will have seven people to choose from in November to fill the three City Council seats. Incumbents Tom Davis, Brooke Laine and Angela Swanson are on the ballot. Former Councilman Bruce Grego, former candidate Austin Sass, and newcomers Wendy David and Matt Palacio round out the field. Suzie Alessi is running uncontested […]
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With recent completion of reconstruction work on the bottom, commercial section of Kingsbury Grade, the Nevada Department of Transportation is on schedule in advance of the September closure to through traffic. Since the project’s start in May, nearly 1.5 miles of roadway have been reconstructed, including excavation of nearly 7,000 cubic yards of old road […]
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By Associated Press RENO — Volunteers joined Nevada wildlife officials this week in a rescue mission to save thousands of stranded trout and other fish from irrigation ditches that have been cut off from Truckee River water supplies due to drought in the Reno area. Two dozen wader-clad rescuers splashed through the knee-deep ditches that […]
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By Jen Marchain Henry David Thoreau said, “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve always imagined” – a simple sentiment so often difficult to achieve in such a consumable world of distraction and strife. But for South Lake Tahoe native Nikki Grant, she is keeping it real and all in […]
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