El Dorado County Local News

Local resident, Col. Joseph Shriber named grand marshal as 2000 participants expected

EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. – As of 5 p.m. on Nov. 4, the El Dorado County received over 75,000 ballots by mail or drop off. These ballots returned prior to Election Day account for 55% of ballots countywide.

Rendering of proposed new gondola terminal, which has been moved closer to the North Base area at Homewood Mountain Resort. | Homewood Mountain Resort
“Homewood will always be public and have public access,” Homewood Mountain Resort’s Andy Buckley, vice president of Mountain Experience, told a group of 45 people on Nov. 5. However, Homewood Mountain Resort will be closed for the 2024-25 season, said Buckley.
Buckley told the First Tuesday Breakfast Club, hosted by the North Tahoe Community Alliance on Zoom, that he’ll be leading community engagement of the ski resort’s development project while the resort remains closed. Buckley said the decision to close came after its lead capital partner, Mohari, put its operation funding “on hold” after the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) flagged changes to the resort’s project plan for additional review. The announcement to close for the season was first made in a press release on Oct. 11.
Homewood submitted changes to its Resort Master Plan to TRPA in May 2024 that included moving the terminal for the new gondola closer to the North Base area, realigning the path for the gondola to mid-mountain and building a gondola car barn at mid-mountain. The gondola will replace Madden Chair.
Other changes included reducing the hotel to 73 rooms and residential units to 122, along with changes to the architectural style of the project.
“Those changes are very, very small in our opinion,” Buckley said, noting that the resort will be hosting community meetings in the future.
Learn more
Access the full Master Plan: trpa.gov/major-projects/homewood-mountain-resort-master-plan/.
Read Homewood’s Master Plan project page and sign up to receive updates: skihomewood.com/masterplaninfo/

Preliminary results from the 2024 General Election may be available shortly after the last voter in line has cast a ballot today.

GREATER LAKE TAHOE AREA, Calif. / Nev. – As both the leaves and temperatures fall, the USDA Forest Service typically prepares its recreation sites around Tahoe for winter by closing down parking areas, restrooms and amenities around mid-October, but this year, their keeping a few select sites open well into November.

RENO, Nev. – Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe will be the first Tahoe area resort to kick off the 2024-25 winter season when it opens Friday, Nov. 8. Early season snow, ideal temperatures that have allowed the resort to fire up its extensive snowmaking system, and the fact that Mt. Rose has the highest base area elevation at 8,260′ have all contributed to the resort's ability to get skiers and riders on snow for some of their first turns of the season.

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – When Paul Nelson first explored the abandoned grounds of the Brockway Hot Springs Hotel in 1968, he couldn't have known that decades later he would become the chronicler of Lake Tahoe's lost golden age of grand resorts. 

WASHOE COUNTY, Nev. – More than a quarter of eligible Washoe County voters cast their ballot early for the 2024 general election, according to an unofficial cumulative early voting turnout report from the Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar's office. 

STATELINE, Nev. – Harveys Lake Tahoe began an all-encompassing $160 million transformation in October that will touch every corner of the resort and casino from its gaming floors to its guest rooms.

Superheroes were out in full force at Sandra J. Gallardo Elementary before the arrival of Halloween this year as students and staff celebrated “Superhero Day” in honor of Red Ribbon Week.

Folsom production of Gore Vidal’s political drama opens November 8

As the month of November settles in and the festive season approaches, wine enthusiasts are getting excited for the return of the Foothill Wine Fest, hosted by Choose Folsom at the Palladio this Saturday, November, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m at Folsom’s Palladio.

Equipment is now on site and dirt has been moving as the early stages of construction have begun on the highly anticipated AC Hotel by Marriott at Folsom’s Palladio shopping center, marking the largest expansion at the popular venue since it first opened in 2010.

Construction on Folsom Lake College’s expansive new science building is making significant progress just one year after breaking ground and continues to remain on schedule to host students in 2025.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team reported Monday that they have seized more than 5,600 pounds of fireworks across two locations in both El Dorado Hills and Folsom, both which are reportedly tied to a Folsom resident, following a tip about illegal fireworks storage.

Folsom Police Target Drug Distribution Networks in Regional Operation