For the next two weeks representatives from a professional survey research company will be conducting travel surveys with visitors and residents at several recreational and commercial locations throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin. Results from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s travel mode survey will be used to track the success of and help plan multi-modal travel options […]
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Timothy Roger Stoll died suddenly of galloping pneumonia on Feb. 12, 2016. He was 77. Dr. Stoll, an icon of the Tahoe area, practiced dentistry for more than 50 years in South Lake Tahoe and Minden. He was born June 16, 1938. While a young boy vacationing with his family in Zephyr Cove in the 1940s […]
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· Jessica Perasso and Dana Dose will be giving a free talk about managing diabetes on March 9 from 6-7pm in the board room at Lake Tahoe Community College. · Four pilots deliberately had their planes’ tires skimming Lake Tahoe on Feb. 11 in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the longest […]
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Eric Munsing will give a talk titled Cars that Run on Sunshine: Making Electricity Greener on March 2 at Lake Tahoe Community College. Munsing will talk about the opportunities and challenges facing California in the state’s effort to reach its climate change goals. Renewable energy and electric vehicles are considered to be two important energy […]
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By USSA LILLEHAMMER, Norway – The Winter Youth Olympic Games closed the cross country competitions with a Nordic mixed team relay. The U.S. team included one female cross country skier, Hannah Halvorsen (Truckee), one male cross country skier, Hunter Wonders (Anchorage) and one nordic combined male, Ben Loomis (Eau Claire, Wis). The U.S. team finished […]
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El Dorado County on Feb. 21 is closing both directions of Highway 50 between El Dorado Hills Boulevard and Bass Lake Road, as well as the Latrobe Road on-ramp to eastbound Highway 50, the Bass Lake Road on-ramp to westbound Highway 50, and White Rock Road between Valley View Parkway and Entrada Circle. These closures are for blasting operations […]
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By Kathryn Reed For more than 100 years automobiles have been subjected to the whims of Mother Nature when it comes to being able to drive around Emerald Bay on Highway 89. For the past few winters the closures have been minimal because the snow was close to nonexistent. This year, though, it seems like […]
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By John Rosemond, Tribune News Service A 4-year-old boy informed his preschool teacher – a friend of mine – that he’d broken his iPad. “Oh!” my friend said. “What a shame. Did you drop it?” “No,” the boy said, very matter-of-factly. “I got mad that my mom wanted me to share it with my sister, so […]
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By Soumya Karlamangla, Los Angeles Times Under a law expected to go into effect by April, women in California will be able to stop by their neighborhood pharmacy and buy birth control pills without a prescription. Proponents argue that easing women’s access to birth control will reduce unintended pregnancies, which make up as many as […]
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Placer County sheriff’s detectives are investigating the destruction of a statue of the Virgin Mary in Kings Beach as a hate crime. Sometime last weekend suspects removed the head, hands and fingers of the granite state at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church. The fingers were found on church property. Several churches in the area […]
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