Inmates in El Dorado County jail in South Lake Tahoe entered 18 culinary categories in this year’s county fair and took home 17 awards. Since 2007, inmates have entered their goods into the El Dorado County Fair. They received 10 first place and seven second place ribbons. The purpose of the program is to teach […]
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The Sugar Pine Foundation is celebrating its 10th anniversary on Aug. 14 at the Valhalla Boathouse on the South Shore. The Sugar Pine Foundation was founded in 2005 to bring back the legendary sugar pines and other white pines. To date, the nonprofit has identified more than 65 sugar pines and three western white pines […]
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Internationally bestselling author Garth Stein, whose book “The Art of Racing in the Rain” has sold more than 4 million copies and been published in 35 languages, will appear at Tahoe WordWave this fall. WordWave is a three-day festival (Oct. 9-11) on the grounds of Valhalla at the Tallac Historic Site on the South Shore. […]
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Even in the early 1900s old and new intersected. The above photo shows a horse-drawn carriage and a horseless carriage meeting on the Old Meyers Grade while crossing Echo Summit. This was years before the current Highway 50 Echo Summit route was built in the 1930s. Now paved, the Old Meyers Grade still exists. It is […]
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By Kathryn Reed KIRKWOOD – Sitting at Emigrant Lake looking up at the granite cliffs that form part of the Kirkwood Mountain Resort boundary it’s easy to understand why the words steep and rugged are synonymous with this ski area. And this isn’t the super gnarly area of the Wood. Fortunately, hiking to Emigrant Lake […]
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By Dereck Joubert, National Geographic In the wake of Cecil the lion’s killing in Zimbabwe we are seeing real conversations about hunting: its viability and its ethics. It has opened some tough discussions, like if we should all boycott Zimbabwe, or whether lion hunting is in any shape or form a viable conservation tool. I don’t think […]
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By Ana Swanson, Washington Post What are your odds of being a millionaire, do you think? One in 10? One in 50? One in 100? If you’re over 62, your odds of having at least $1 million in net wealth (your total assets minus your total debt) are relatively achievable — about 1 in 7. But […]
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Slow Food Lake Tahoe is putting on a canning clinic in Truckee on Aug. 8 from 10am-2pm. The clinic will cover the basics of water bath canning, which is suitable for preserving all sorts of foods, including pickles, jams and tomato sauce. The clinic will also be touching on additional options of preservation with pressure canning. […]
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By Teri Sforza, Orange County Register Within the span of only 11 years, the hole at the bottom of California’s state and local pension funds increased a staggering 3,046 percent. The monstrous growth of the gap between what public agencies have promised workers upon retirement and what they actually have – from $6.3 billion in […]
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· Signs recently posted at South Lake Tahoe post offices announcing changes to retail service hours were posted in error, and have since been removed. There are no plans to adjust retail service hours in the Lake Tahoe region at this time. · Truckee Department of Public Works road crews will be performing cross country […]
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