Incline Village, CA…The love and support of Lake Tahoe was on full display at the Tahoe Fund annual Founders Circle dinner, Sunday August 18, raising more than $300,000 for the organization and four Signature Projects around the Lake. Tahoe Fund donors were joined by Senators Dianne Feinstein and Harry Reid and Governors Jerry Brown and […]
South Lake Tahoe, CA/NV….TahoeChamber is pleased to announce the participants for the Leadership Lake Tahoe Class of 2013/2014. 25 applicants have been accepted in to the upcoming program due to start next month. Leadership Lake Tahoe is an intensive ten-month experience in which participants meet once each month for a full class day. Each month […]
Washington, DC…THE PRESIDENT: To the King family, who have sacrificed and inspired so much; to President Clinton; President Carter; Vice President Biden and Jill; fellow Americans. Five decades ago today, Americans came to this honored place to lay claim to a promise made at our founding: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all […]
South Lake Tahoe, CA/NV… TahoeChamber is pleased to announce the participants for the Leadership Lake Tahoe Class of 2013/2014. 25 applicants have been accepted in to the upcoming program due to start next month. Leadership Lake Tahoe is an intensive ten-month experience in which participants meet once each month for a full class day. Each month […]
Granite Bay, CA….”I am deeply concerned about reports that the President is preparing to order acts of war against the government of Syria without congressional authorization. The Constitution clearly and unmistakably vests Congress with the sole prerogative “to declare war.” The President’s authority as Commander-in-Chief to order a military attack on a foreign government is […]
Washington, DC…Well, for the last several days President Obama and his entire national security team have been reviewing the situation in Syria, and today I want to provide an update on our efforts as we consider our response to the use of chemical weapons. What we saw in Syria last week should shock the conscience […]
Groveland, CA…From 230 miles above Groveland the smoke trail runs directly over South Lake. NASA Tweeted the photo below. “Our orbit took us directly over California’s Rim Fire about an hour ago. Devastating. August 26. pic.twitter.com/sCYXZPZTWq”
Groveland, CA..The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the use of federal funds to assist the state of California combat the Rim Fire currently burning in Tuolumne County. On August 23, 2013, the State of California submitted a request for a fire management assistance declaration for the Rim Fire […]
Tuolumne, CA…Today Governor Edmund G. Brown was joined by the emergency management leadership of California during a briefing at a operations base camp of the Rim Fire in Tuolumne. The Rim Fire has grown to one of the largest fires in the state’s history, having burned more than 149,000 acres.
Groveland, CA…The now 15th largest fire in California History is making a push further into Yosemite National Park and closer to Hetch Hetchy today. Fire remained fairly active overnight in most all divisions. Increased activity developed on the eastern edge of the fire with very active burning inclusive of rapid rates of spread, torching and […]
