Staff Report
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – Construction on a new visitor center and amphitheater is set to begin Monday at Spooner Lake, Nevada State Park officials announced Thursday.
The park will remain open during construction, however, the main entrance is scheduled to be closed to vehicle access between July 18-24. Several areas adjacent to the public parking lot will be restricted and portable restrooms will be made available during the project, which is anticipated to be completed early next year.
The new facilities at Spooner Lake will offer visitors high quality interpretive programming and environmental education, and will serve as a base for natural and cultural history programs, ranger-led hikes and tours, and an outdoor science venue for students. The project will also serve as a major portal to more than 60 miles of paths and trails spanning 13,000 acres of spectacular non-motorized primitive wilderness within the Lake Tahoe Basin.
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Matt Levitt, Tahoe Blue Vodka founder and CEO, donated $100,000 to help finance Clean Up The Lake’s 2021 72-mile Lake Tahoe cleanup. Tahoe Fund is raising funds to match the $100,000 donation.
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Typical dive days involve a group of roughly 10 to 12 people, including volunteers on kayaks, safety monitors, a jet ski, and a couple of boats. Larger cleanup days will see the group double in size. Diving will take place at depths of up to 25 feet.
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“It’s really thrilling and exciting to get this going,” said West. “The team of people that have been with me has been truly amazing.”
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As Utah’s snowpack continues to dwindle and fires across the state continue to spark, experts are warning of a difficult road ahead in this severe drought.
Snowpack is very low this year and is “just falling apart,” said Jordan Clayton, supervisor of the Utah Snow Survey. Right now, he said, it’s about 33 percent of normal.
“Most of that water is being soaked up by our really dry soils,” Clayton told 2News. “That means that a lot of that water isn’t getting into our streams and reservoirs.”
In some places, Clayton said, conditions are potentially the worst on record.
By Staff Reporter
FOUR Local Government ministry officials are in trouble with the law after they allegedly took land illegally from a Harare housing cooperative.
The four, who include Andrew Rhory Shawatu, Nyarai Priscilla Mudzinge, Leah Chigoma and Daisy Mtyambizi, all appeared before Harare magistrate Stanford Mambanje charged with criminal abuse of office.
They were remanded in custody to this Tuesday for bail ruling.
According to prosecutors, Shawatu was the principal administration officer State Lands, Mudzinge (director local authorities) while Chimoga was acting director legal and Mtyambizi (deputy director spatial planning).
Court heard the officials allegedly attempted to convert the land set aside by Sally Mugabe Heights Housing Cooperative for public use as residential stands.