By Kathryn Reed It’s always good to have a Plan B when it comes to dinner – especially when guests are coming. Once I realized what a hectic day I was going to have I knew I needed to find something easy to make. Out came the crock pot. This would allow me to have […]
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The original Round Hill Shopping Center was built in the early 1960s. It had two driveway entrances and featured a rustic indoor mall. On the south corner fronting the center was a popular deli in an A-frame building. A retail and business office building now occupies that separately-owned corner. To the right of the deli […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau Olympic snowboard gold medalist Jamie Anderson started the season with a clavicle broken in five places, her first surgery, one plate and eight screws. Her collarbone now on the mend, Anderson is anxiously awaiting approval from her doctors to get back on the snow. When she does return to competition, she will […]
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By Alexandra Minna Stern Not too long ago, more than 60,000 people were sterilized in the United States based on eugenic laws. Most of these operations were performed before the 1960s in institutions for the so-called “mentally ill” or “mentally deficient.” In the early 20th century across the country, medical superintendents, legislators, and social reformers […]
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By Michael Wines and Jennifer Medina, New York Times FIVE POINTS — The message that Maria L. Gutierrez gave legislators on Capitol Hill was anguished and blunt: California’s historic drought had not merely left farmland idle. It had destroyed Latino farm workers’ jobs, shuttered Latino businesses and thrown Latino families on the street. Yet Congress […]
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Tickets are available for A Night in Tahoe, Zephyr Cove Elementary School’s annul fundraiser. The event at Edgewood Tahoe is Jan. 22 from 6-10pm. It includes a silent auction, dancing, food, and wine. Tickets are $70 per person and available in the front office or from any Parents Club member. Tickets will also be available at the […]
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By Erin Beresini, Outside Swedish obstacle series Tough Viking is doing away with electrified obstacles in 2016, OCR Europe reports. The move puts it among a handful of events axing electricity as the industry chucks its original selling points of shock value and mental games in a sad but necessary drive for longevity. Savage Race […]
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By Ian Whitaker, Las Vegas Sun Technology in the classroom has come a long way. What started with a simple chalkboard has evolved into projectors, computers, tablets and now robots. If you go by what you see at CES, which kicked off Tuesday in convention centers on the Strip, the beeping, booping machines are the […]
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The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District and Mount Rose Ski Patrol will be conducting avalanche training Jan. 11, 13, and 15 near the Mount Rose summit. There will be hands-on training for avalanche skills in four 30-minute stations, beginning at 10am and 1pm. The stations will consist of transceiver and RECCO search, probe line organization, […]
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Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District, California State Parks and the U.S. Forest Service may continue prescribed fire operations next week. To view a map with project locations and details, go online. Residual smoke may be seen in locations where operations have taken place over the last several weeks. Before conducting prescribed fire operations, agencies post […]
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