By Melinda Myers Grow a beautiful flower garden with minimal care by investing a bit of time at the start of the season to reduce on-going care. Always match flowers to the growing conditions and the care you are willing to provide. Low maintenance plants need minimal or no deadheading and staking. This means you’ll […]
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Douglas County School District needs to find $1.7 million in revenue or expenses to cut before May 18 when the board is expected to approve the 2016-17 budget. At this week’s meeting Holly Luna, who heads the finance department, gave the bad news to the board members. Funding for a reading grant is ending, which […]
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By Kathryn Reed Tony Russo is prepared to unleash another round of robo calls targeting El Dorado County supervisors if they don’t start funding roads. “If the supervisors address the road fund and maintenance issues, I won’t do it again. If they don’t, I will,” the El Dorado Hills resident told Lake Tahoe News. For one […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal Immediately after Burning Man 2016 main sale tickets sold out in late March, Burners were certain that something had gone wrong during the sale. And, although Burning Man denied that anything had gone wrong at the time, something had. In short, the online “waiting room” was a flop. The waiting room, […]
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· Staples in South Lake Tahoe is closing June 5. · The annual Community Clean Up Day in North Lake Tahoe and Truckee will be June 4, 9am-1pm, rain or shine. For more info, email info@northtahoebusiness.org · Tina Shannon, management analyst for South Lake Tahoe, and her husband have bought the restaurant at Lake Tahoe Airport. […]
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Based on patient surveys conducted between April 2014 and March 2015, Barton Memorial Hospital earned a four star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “This is a new program that CMS has rolled out to compare hospitals with the same survey and criteria,” explained Katie Shea, Barton’s patient experience coordinator. Five stars […]
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By Meredith Carey, Conde Nast Traveler Life isn’t a walk in the park, but according to a handful of recent studies, hiking may make it at least a little easier. We’ve all experienced how time outdoors can clear your mind and ease stress, but there’s new evidence that taking a hike can do much more: […]
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Tahoe Regional Young Professionals is launching an event series called Tahoe Town Hall. The inaugural event will take place in the Student Center at the Lake Tahoe Community College on April 20 from 6-7:30pm. The free talk will feature a panel discussion about the creation and governance of local ordinances and how South Lake Tahoe’s Vacation Rental Ordinance […]
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By Juan Carlos Flores, KRNV-TV The Senate has passed the bipartisan Nevada Native Nations Land Act. The legislation would transfer land into a trust for six Nevada tribes: the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, the Summit Lake Paiute Tribe, […]
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John Vanek, a retired lieutenant from the San Jose Police Human Trafficking Task Force, will discuss his book “The Essential Abolitionist: What You Need to Know about Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery” on April 26. He will address the most commonly asked questions and topics surrounding human trafficking and the challenges involved in fighting this […]
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