By Susan Wood TRUCKEE – The number of grocery stores in Truckee is going to mushroom in the near future. Plans are under way for the town to add three stores to the existing Safeway on Donner Pass Road and Save Mart on Deerfield Drive. From land use and landscaping to architecture and traffic, Truckee […]
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By Anjeanette Damon, Reno Gazette-Journal Five years ago, Washoe County handed 87 parcels of land over to the Incline Village General Improvement District, forgiving more than $800,000 in unpaid property taxes on the land in exchange for a promise from Incline Village to use the land as publicly owned open space. The lots, most of them […]
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Updated 3:31pm: NV Energy had no idea why the power is out this afternoon. At one point 4,386 customers at the lake and in the Carson Valley were without power. The outage affected the Douglas County Commissioners meeting at Stateline on Dec. 21. It had to be halted at 2:30pm because the meeting is supposed […]
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The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is repeating the warning to the public that calls are being made to residents from people claiming they are a member of the department. The caller stating the resident has missed a court date, or missed jury duty and claim there is now a fine due and a warrant issued. […]
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By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun Tax proceeds on Nevada’s marijuana sales is continuing an upward trajectory, establishing a new monthly high in October during the fourth month of the state’s recreational marijuana program, officials announced Wednesday. The industry brought in more than $5.8 million in October, which includes a 15-percent wholesale tax for both […]
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By Kathryn Reed SnowGlobe is already irritating people and the loud bass that permeates the otherwise tranquil night air of South Lake Tahoe hasn’t even started. A section of Al Tahoe Boulevard, one of the major thoroughfares in town, is going to be closed the better part of the three days of the music festival. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Diversifying the types of people coming to the South Shore and the reasons they do so is a goal of local business owners and tourism officials. Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority is making a concerted effort to attract more conventions/meetings to the area. This in turn will ideally put more heads in beds […]
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By Joe Hart, KRNV-TV Buffy Ford, her husband and their three horses moved to south Carson City in 2005. The quiet rural neighborhood at East Roland and Ponderosa Street was a perfect fit for their outdoor lifestyle. They knew the new Carson City freeway was coming. What they didn’t know is that the sound wall […]
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A painting worth more than $1,000 that was stolen from a South Lake Tahoe gallery has been recovered. Someone stole the artwork on Dec. 9 from the sidewalk display in front of Pacific Crest Gallery in the Heavenly Village. It had a sales price of $1,195. Gallery staff then saw it for sale on Craigslist. […]
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The Truckee Town Council approved a 10-year solid waste and recycling franchise agreement this month with Tahoe Truckee Sierra Disposal that includes a host of new, sustainable services for residential and commercial customers. The previous agreement was set to expire June 30, 2018. Truckee residents will be moving to containerized recycling and yard waste services […]
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