In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Writers’ Series at Lake Tahoe Community College will host poets Jan Beatty and Gayle Brandeis for a reading and conversation on April 17 at 8pm in LTCC’s Roberta Mason Library. This event is free and open to the public. Books by both authors will be available for purchase. […]
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By Terra Breeden Playing in the snow isn’t all fun and games. It can be deadly without the correct preparation or tools. At the avalanche awareness and snow safety station hosted by David Reichel from the Sierra Avalanche Center, students learned how to rescue an avalanche victim by using a beacon and probe. They also […]
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To the community, If you had walked onto the Lake Tahoe Community campus on April 3, you would have never guessed that there were 325 sixth-grade youth and 220 agency and volunteer workers throughout the corridors, all learning information on how and why to keep themselves safe from drugs. “Choices, what are yours?” was the […]
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By Benjamin Alexander, The Conversation Eighty-five years ago, on April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order allocating $10 million for Emergency Conservation Work. This step launched one of the New Deal’s signature relief programs: the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC. Its mission was to put unemployed Americans to work improving the […]
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By Tracy Ross, Outside On July 9, 2016, two hitchhikers camping illegally on private land north of Nederland, Colorado, piled rocks onto a campfire that they hadn’t fully extinguished. Shortly after, wind (most likely) flamed the embers into a blaze. By 1:30 p.m., tentative puffs of smoke gathered above the ad hoc site, flanked by […]
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The Ronson Sakioka Memorial “Face Rat” Party will be April 6 at Heavenly Mountain Resor. Ronson was one of the original Face Rats. He died last year. Friends will be begin skiing The Face at 2pm, then everyone will meet at the top at 4pm for a final run with Ronson at 4:20pm. The party […]
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By Wes Siler, Outside In the United States, pet dogs produce 21.2 billion pounds of poop each year. All that poop is polluting water sources, both in urban areas and the backcountry, largely because dog owners aren’t doing a good enough job picking it up. Let’s look at the reasons why dog poop has become such […]
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Comedians Shayla Rivera, Monique Marvez and Jade Esteban Estrada take the stage inside Vinyl at the Hard Rock Lake Tahoe on May 5 in an evening of comedy billed as Three Latinas and a Navé (which is how host Howie Nave has had his last name pronounced for years). Rivera has been a staple on […]
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Registration for Lake Tahoe Unified School District at all elementary schools will be April 30-May 11. To be eligible for kindergarten a child must be 5 on or before Sept. 1. If a child will be 5 between Sept. 1 and Dec. 2, he or she qualifies for transitional kindergarten, a two-year kindergarten program at […]
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The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a flood watch from April 6 at 5pm to April 8 at 5am for the greater Lake Tahoe area, as well as parts of the Carson Valley and Reno areas. A strong atmospheric river will impact the Sierra. Significant precipitation will combine with high snow levels to […]
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