There will be a planning meeting regarding the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Complex renovation on Dec. 8 from 5:30-8:30pm at the rec center, 1180 Rufus Allen Blvd. The city is seeking ideas on how to revamp the recreation and swim center. This is an opportunity to offer input on design and other ideas. This workshop will include an […]
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By Howie Nave I’ve been waiting for the fourth and final installment of this franchise (although I still consider it a trilogy with the last one broken into two parts) for so long that I was hoping it would end with an amazing climatic experience. Well, it almost got there, but maybe that was just […]
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Gail is a 7-month-old terrier mix puppy. She is tall and lanky and full of fun. Gail arrived at another shelter with a broken leg and had to be crated for six weeks for her leg to heal, so now she is ready for her new, hopefully active, forever home. Gail is spayed, microchipped, heart […]
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By Anne Knowles The restoration of Alpine County’s Hope Valley meadow has been a long time coming. Within a year, work to restore a 400-acre portion of the 1,600-acre meadow, which includes three miles of the West Fork Carson River, should be complete. That project, which is just the start of a long-term healing process, […]
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By George Miller, Sacramento Bee We live in a progressive and forward-thinking state with a constitution that guarantees equity in our public education system. We have a lot to be proud of – successfully implementing the Common Core standards, expanding services for students in foster care and investing in early childhood education. But we also […]
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By Lee Romney, Los Angeles TimesHeavy equipment mechanic Fredrick Jefferson said it was when a supervisor fired him that he learned his driver’s license had been revoked because of unpaid traffic fines. Over the next year and a half, the “snowball effect” caused his relationship to crumble and he wound up homeless, scraping by on […]
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By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post If you’ve ever tried out the latest diet fad only to find yourself gaining weight and feeling awful and wondered what you were doing wrong, scientists now have an explanation for you. Israeli researchers, writing in the journal Cell last week, have found that different people’s bodies respond to eating the same […]
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Money Driving over the river and through the woods will be quite a bit cheaper this Thanksgiving, thanks to rapidly falling gas prices. The average price of a gallon of regular gas is $2.13 according to AAA, down 75 cents from a year ago. That decline means consumers will save about […]
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By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times If Californians — indeed, all Americans — had a thoughtful, consistent approach to gaming, daily fantasy sports sites such as FanDuel and DraftKings would be treated as gambling and their sponsors regulated and taxed. They’d be subjected to government oversight, background checks of employees, audits of their books and […]
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· Here are the El Dorado-Tahoe and Sierra roadwork schedules for the week from Caltrans. · Scholarships are available for students entering Sierra Nevada College’s master’s teaching programs. · It’s time to signup for youth basketball programs at Kahle Community Center in Stateline. For more info, go online. · Diamond Peak has moved its opening day to […]
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