Two poets will be reading from their works at Lake Tahoe Community College on Nov. 13. Poet and journalist Ilyse Kusnetz, and Julia Shipley, teacher, farmer, and poet, will also answer audience questions about their writing process, and sign copies of their books for sale that night. Kusnetz is the author of “Small Hours”, winner of […]
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By Cindy Chang, Marisa Gerber and Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times Semisi Sina has kept sheriff’s deputies busy in the last year. The 30-year-old has stolen bicycles from his Hacienda Heights neighborhood. He has skipped out on drug treatment and kept up his meth habit. He has racked up 16 arrests, earning himself a place […]
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· Tahoe Donner Cross Country Ski Area will debut its new building, the Alder Creek Adventure Center, on Nov. 27 from 5-7pm. This free event includes live music, appetizers, family entertainment and activities, and a no-host bar. · Author Laura McBride will be speaking at the Douglas County Library in Minden at 10am Nov. 21. Copies of “We Are Called […]
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Effective Nov. 9, residents in Amador, El Dorado, Alpine, and Sacramento counties will be able to pile burn. Those possessing current and valid agriculture and residential burn permits will be able to resume burning on permissible days. CalFire burn permits will be required until the end of peak fire season. Fire officials ask property owners and […]
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By Kevin Helliker, Wall Street Journal A study finds that exercise that is extreme in either volume or intensity may be associated with high levels of atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries. The study, presented in August at a meeting of the European Society of Cardiology, studied 169 veteran competitive endurance athletes against a control group […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Correct the problems and identify opportunities. Those are the oversimplified tasks the consultants for Lake Tahoe Hard Rock have agreed to tackle. “Right now we are working to stabilize the operation,” Jim Roets told Lake Tahoe News. Roets and Rick Stevens, two veterans in the Northern Nevada casino industry, have […]
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To the community, First of all, what is death by a thousand cuts? It’s an ancient form of torture from Imperial China, where a subject was given one cut after another until over an extended period of time he bled to death: The first few hundred cuts wouldn’t kill him, but the last few hundred […]
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By Lois M. Collins, Deseret News The small clouds are more noticeable than the people enveloped in the white smoke, visible on city streets and college campuses across America. They are caused by “vaping,” the use of liquid nicotine from one of various types of so-called electronic cigarettes. The users — or “vapers” — include […]
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By Kathryn Reed The El Dorado County board of education has called for a special closed session meeting on Saturday to discuss the second driving under the influence arrest of Superintendent Jeremy Meyers. While the agenda for the Nov. 7 10am meeting does not specifically say that, it is what will be discussed. The agenda […]
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By Kathryn Reed In two weeks the Tahoe Women’s Community Fund has raised $20,000 to be invested on the South Shore and has signed up 125 members. This nonprofit entity was launched last month with the goal of securing money from members that will then be doled out to entities roughly from Glenbrook to Meyers […]
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