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Placer County Sheriff's arrest log: Battery, child endangerment, warrants
Editor’s note: Arrest reports are released by the Placer County Sheriff’s Department. Suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty. Charges can be amended or dismissed. April 15. Timothy Aaron Steele, 30, was arrested at 9:11 a.m. on suspicion of two felony bench warrants in the 300 block of...
El Dorado County high school cuts dance program despite Prop 28 funding
EL DORADO COUNTY — Teachers and parents are speaking out after learning a dance program will be cut from an El Dorado County high school next yearThis comes after an expected increase in funding for visual and performing arts programs after Proposition 28 passed in November 2022."It's really confusing and it's really upsetting," said Caitlin Rubini, a dance teacher at Union Mine High School.Rubini has been the dance teacher at Union Mine for nearly nine years.She learned about four weeks ago that the program would be cut for the 2024-2025 school year after, she said, her principal made a blanket...
South Tahoe housing waitlist drops by 65, Sugar Pine applications muddy the numbers
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – City staff provided a quarterly update on its affordable housing waitlist at City Council on Tuesday, April 23. The waitlist has dropped from 1,173 to 1,008 since the last update, a drop of 65. The list compiles waitlists from eight affordable housing properties in...
Muller Parkway Project Construction to Begin Soon on First Phase
Douglas County officials announced Friday, April 26, that construction on the Muller Parkway Project's first phase to begin soon. This project offers a much needed alternative route, alleviating traffic congestion in the Minden and Gardnerville areas to U.S. 395 through town. Officials announce they are planning a groundbreaking ceremony to...
Teen hit on Pleasant Valley
A Pollock Pines teen was life-flighted to an area hospital April 16 after he was hit by a truck on Pleasant Valley Road near El Dorado. Officials with the Placerville office of the California Highway Patrol said a 17-year-old boy was struck by a Dodge Ram truck at approximately 11:30 a.m. just east of Oak Dell Road. Taking place during school hours, the location of the collision was about one-half mile from Union Mine High School and one-quarter mile from Charles Brown Learning Academy.
Heated discussion on minimum wage ends with ‘Let’s vote’
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – City Council halted an item establishing a local minimum wage ordinance and potentially increasing the minimum wage in the City of South Lake Tahoe. Councilmember Tamara Wallace made a motion directing the city manager to take no action establishing a local minimum wage, seconded by Councilmember Cristi Creegan. The motion passed 3-1 with both Wallace and Creegan, along with Mayor Cody Bass, voting yes. Councilmember Scott Robbins voted no.
Small wildfire in South Lake Tahoe under investigation
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California (KOLO) - A small wildfire that broke out in South Lake Tahoe is under investigation. The South Lake Tahoe Fire Department and the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office responded to an area near Van Sickle Park just before 11:00 a.m. Wednesday for a reported fire.
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