By Susan Wood FALLEN LEAF LAKE – Resolving the Fallen Leaf Lake marina operator issue has turned out to be more difficult than negotiating the area’s narrow, windy road on a warm summer day. Facing an unfavorable voter referendum, the small town’s Community Services District board wrapped up another oppositional, but more civil, meeting Sunday […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee It’s a good time to be a casino regular. With tribal resorts in the Sacramento region challenged by a flattened economy for gambling, casino patrons are feeling the love of a marketing push to keep them playing their favorite slot machines and table games. Casinos are renewing courtships with repeat […]
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By Kathryn Reed When lawmakers begin the next budget cycle in January, Assemblyman Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, expects a $10 billion deficit will have to be dealt with. “The revenue is just not there,” Gaines said. He delivered this news to a roomful of constituents at the Red Hut Soda Fountain in South Lake Tahoe on […]
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By Kathryn Reed ZEPHYR COVE — Enrollment in Douglas County School District continues to decline, though Zephyr Cove Elementary School is dramatically defying that trend. With 25 more students than last year, Zephyr Cove’s numbers are up 13 percent. This is not a trend experienced at other elementary schools in the district. Principal Nancy Cauley […]
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Jimmy Martin has pulled out of the Nov. 3 race to be on the South Tahoe Public Utility District board. On Thursday he said, “I have some health issues and some personal issues.†He was seeking Seat 1. Remaining in the race are incumbent Ernie Claudio, and challengers John Adamski and Chris Cefalu. “I am […]
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Reno Gazette-Journal Tourism officials have landed three new conventions for veterans, hunters and volleyball players that will bring more than 100,000 visitors to Reno from 2012 to 2017. The Veterans of Foreign Wars will come to Reno in July 2012, said Ellen Oppenheim, president of the Reno-Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority. The Wild Sheep Foundation […]
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By Henry Brean, Las Vegas Review-Journal The Southern Nevada Water Authority hopes to squeeze a little extra water from the sky by reviving a cloud-seeding program doomed by state budget cuts. For decades, the state’s Desert Research Institute operated snow generators in northeastern Nevada and around Lake Tahoe, but the program was due to be […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Phillip Garrido’s attorney has filed a broad request for information on what type of evidence has been gathered against her client, who is charged with abducting Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, when she was 11. Public defender Susan Gellman filed her six-page request in El Dorado Superior Court asking for […]
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By Kathryn Reed Before crashing into a delivery van on Emerald Bay Road, a motorcyclist was clocked at more than 100mph and seen doing a wheelie on Tahoe Keys Boulevard at a speed of 80mph. Mark Habel of the Carson Valley was booked into the El Dorado County jail in South Lake Tahoe on Thursday […]
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By Kathryn Reed “I attended the hearing (Thursday) because I was there the day it opened and I wanted to be supportive of its continued existence,” Dave Kurtzman said. He and a couple dozen parents filled the courtroom of El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Steven Bailey Thursday at 4pm, about two hours after the […]
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