Alex Hoeft

Dec 12, 2024 | moonshineink.com | Alex Hoeft

Editor’s note: This story includes reporting on the once-anticipated Truckee Art Haus project, co-owned by Moonshine Ink reporter Melissa Siig. Siig was not involved in any conversations for this article. Her husband, Steven Siig, was the source utilized.

Oct 10, 2024 | moonshineink.com | Alex Hoeft

Editor’s note: TTUSD’s Safety Nights information:Truckee School Safety NightTuesday, Nov. 12, from 6 to 7 p.m.Alder Creek Middle School, CafetoriumLakeside School Safety NightWednesday, Nov. 13, from 6 to 7:00 p.m.North Tahoe High School, AuditoriumOn Sept. 25, the New York Times reported, “After a Georgia school shooting this month, the number of threats across the U.S. is much higher than usual, officials said.

Oct 10, 2024 | moonshineink.com | Alex Hoeft

Concern over the state of the Incline Village General Improvement District has been brewing for years, so to say the November election to fill three open board seats is critical is not an exaggeration. There will be guaranteed new blood in the mix, as only one incumbent is choosing to go up for reelection. The six candidates running have similar focuses on what needs to be addressed amid the turbulence, albeit different prioritization.

Sep 12, 2024 | moonshineink.com | Alex Hoeft

Six days after the Nevada County Planning Commission approved construction of a sawmill off Highway 89 and just west of Prosser Creek’s inlet to its parent reservoir, progress was halted. On Aug. 14, Friends of Prosser Truckee submitted an appeal to the Aug. 8 planning commission’s approval of the project, known as Alpenglow Timber. The disagreement at hand is not over the need for a facility to process the many dead and dying trees crowding local forests.

Sep 12, 2024 | moonshineink.com | Alex Hoeft

I stopped going on Facebook regularly nearly a decade ago. Reading people’s posts in the lead-up to a divisive 2016 election depressed me or, more often, made me angry. And the comment sections — well, to this day, they’re a place I have no desire to tread. I find myself a whole lot more understanding when I engage directly with humans than furiously typing a retort on my keyboard and glaring at my computer screen.