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Red Hawk Casino’s new hotel stands nearly complete April 12 as finishing touches are completed for its first guests in May.
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The Placerville City Council decided Tuesday to hold an additional public meeting regarding the Main Street Farmers Market, a month after voting to relocate the event to the Mooney Lot. The council discussed potential litigation from El Dorado County Farm Trails, the organization that has been holding the Wednesday night market for the past 14 years, in closed session during its April 11 meeting. Allegations of a potential Brown Act violation were also discussed in the closed session portion of the meeting. The council determined no breach of the act had occurred, but did move to hold an additional meeting regarding the market to allow for further public comment, according to City Attorney Mona Ebrahimi. The market discussion has been tentatively set for the council’s upcoming April 25 meeting date, according to City Manager Cleve Morris. Morris noted background work that would need to be done may require the topic to be pushed out to the May 9 meeting. In a decision that has been met with controversy and some cases of social media backlash, Placerville’s City Council decided to relocate the farmers market that had been held at the Bell Tower on Main Street. The reasons for the move included safety concerns and impacts to local merchants such as parking access. El Dorado County Farm Trails President Mike
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he Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians’ expansion to Red Hawk Casino, a 120,000-square-foot hotel, is set to open May 1. Walking into what’s now officially been dubbed Red Hawk Resort + Casino, hotel visitors see nods to tribe culture through artwork and architecture. Light fixtures that replicate woven baskets hang over the lobby, a river of marble flows n See Hotel, page A7
The lobby of Red Hawk Resort + Casino recognizes Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians culture with its decor and design.
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Second Meyers roundabout aims to help traffic flow Ashleigh Goodwin Tahoe Daily Tribune
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a second roundabout will be constructed at the intersection on Highway 50 and Pioneer Trail in Meyers as soon as summer of 2024. Meyers has planned to have two roundabouts since the Meyers Community plan was developed in 1993, according to Donaldo Palaroan, senior civil engineer for El Dorado County Department of Transportation and project manager of the planned roundabout. Palaroan added it’s not unusual to have two roundabouts for this area. “Kings Beach is in development of a third roundabout to accomplish a similar goal of keeping the small
town feel versus a highpaced city,” Palaroan told the Tahoe Daily Tribune. In 2019 Ron Boyle, senior manager of engineering and design company GHD, presented Roundabout 101 to the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors, covering a typical roundabout and its impact on lowering speed while easing traffic flow. Boyle explained a modern roundabout is more than a circle, its a yield-on-entry speed abatement tool that is more eco-friendly than a signaled intersection. “Yes, you’re adding sidewalks, but you’re n See roundabout,
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Tahoe Daily Tribune photo by Ashleigh Goodwin
Congested traffic moves through Highway 50 at Pioneer Trail in Meyers where construction of a roundabout could begin as soon as summer 2024.
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