Stand Up to Cancer is an opportunity to help the South Lake Tahoe Cancer League. The Sept. 12 event is supported by SUP Paddle South Lake Tahoe. The $50 fee includes lunch. The event is form 9am to 3pm. Meet up at El Dorado Beach. Boards are $15 to rent. Registration begins at 9am and paddling will […]
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To the community, On Aug. 10, South Lake Tahoe Yacht Club (SLTYC) member Tina Miranda was volunteering for the first time a Bread & Broth dinner and she was very moved by her experience. “Everyone was so appreciative, grateful and very thankful,” she said. “The dinner guests make it very easy to want to serve […]
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By Trevon Milliard, Reno Gazette-Journal Jennifer Evans has three children and they have all attended private school since her oldest started kindergarten nine years ago. She changed that last week, putting her children in Gardnerville public schools. The single mother and full-time nurse couldn’t afford to pass up the state’s offer, which is being extended […]
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· Lavish Green and Black Star Safari will perform at the final Live at Lakeview concert in South Lake Tahoe on Aug. 27 starting at 4:30pm. · The El Dorado County senior nutrition program’s home-delivered meal service is looking for volunteers to help deliver meals from 10:30am-12:30pm one day each week. For more information, call […]
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By Associated Press Water officials have finalized a deal regarding the Truckee River after decadeslong disputes over how the waters should be managed. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports Truckee Meadows Water Authority directors have agreed to sell up to 2,750 acre-feet of water rights to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. The long-pursued Truckee River Operating Agreement […]
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By Sho Chandra, BloombergBusiness America’s housing market has been heating up this summer. Purchases of previously owned homes unexpectedly rose in July for a third straight month to reach the highest level since February 2007, figures from the National Association of Realtors showed Thursday. The gain was driven by stronger sales of single-family houses even […]
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By Ellen Knickmeyer, AP The carcasses of salmon, trout and more than a dozen other newly extinct native species lie in dry streambeds around California. Exhausted firefighters in the Sierra Nevada battle some of the biggest wildfires they’ve ever seen. And in Central Valley farm towns, more and more parents hear the squeal of empty […]
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By Kimberly Pierceall, AP A California man who bought two saloon casinos in Virginia City will be forced to sell them after Nevada regulators said he was unfit to be involved in the state’s gambling industry. The Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously denied Vincent Michael Malfitano a license Thursday and barred him from being the casinos’ […]
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Alpine Watershed Group needs volunteers to participate in the 16th annual Markleeville Creek Day on Sept. 12 from 9am-2pm. This is a community work day that focuses on stabilizing stream banks, removing invasive weeds and other environmental restoration projects. This year’s projects include: Willow planting and stream bank stabilization in Hope Valley Invasive weed removal, stream […]
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TOCCATA Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will finish the 2015 Tahoe Summer MusicFest with a concert series in September. The concert series commemorates the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy and features Verdi’s “Requiem” (selections) and Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto” with guest artist Elizabeth Pitcairn performing on the legendary Red Stradivarius Violin. The concert will open […]
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