The Placer County Sheriff Office’s search and rescue teams have started their annual telemarketing fundraising drive throughout the county. Money is being raised to purchase mobile communications equipment for the Lake Tahoe area. Telephone solicitors will be calling Placer County residents to ask for donations. Anyone wishing to make a donation will be sent a pre-addressed […]
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By Marsha Hayes, Horse The 2015 Tevis Cup, started today with more than 200 horses and riders departing the Robie Equestrian Park near Lake Tahoe on a 100-mile journey. This year’s renewal of the ride also marks the fourth year that veterinarians Langdon Fielding, Gary Magdesian, and Greg Fellers will oversee a field blood draw 36 […]
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By Gloria Dickie, High Country News USA Today earlier this week reported that U.S. wildfires were approaching “record levels.” The article pointed at the more than 5.5 million acres burned so far this season — second only to the summer in 2011, when just more than 6 million acres had burned by the end of July. […]
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By Ula Ilnytzky, AP NEW YORK — The 1984 Summer Olympic Torch that Bruce Jenner carried through Lake Tahoe sold for just less than $24,000 at an auction of sports memorabilia Thursday. The 24-inch Olympic torch was the first major piece of Jenner memorabilia to go to auction since the winner of the 1976 Olympic […]
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A Coast Guard crew from the Tahoe City station was alerted about 9:45pm July 29 that three people were missing on Lake Tahoe. The 31-year-old woman and her two kids were found near Meeks Bay on a raft that was quickly losing air, according to authorities. Calstar used its radar to find the three, and […]
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With the July Hump Day being rained out, Zephyr Cove Tennis Club is carrying over the Country Fried Hump Day theme to the Aug. 12 event. Players are encouraged to wear country apparel. This Hump Day Mixer will include barbecued chicken, raffle prizes, and an adult doubles round robin for all ability levels. The tennis is […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a random series of stories about what it’s like to go through the South Tahoe Public Utility District turf buyback program. By Kathryn Reed House projects are never as simple as one would like them to be. They often mushroom into something larger than originally anticipated. Even removing sod has […]
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To the community, The USFS has done the deed. The trees have been cut. The campground will never again be the same. I walked through it with dismay. As I looked at the big piles of dead trees and slash, and also at the few left standing, I asked myself why this is necessary? I […]
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By Sindya N. Bhanoo, New York Times Farming may have originated 23,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers discovered a large number of seeds at an ancient hunter-gatherer site known as Ohalo II on the shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. Many of the […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee TRUCKEE — A 23-year-old Fair Oaks man died Thursday night from injuries suffered when the vehicle in which he was a passenger overturned northwest of Truckee. Brayton Walters was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident on Meadow Lake Road south of Henness Pass Road by Truckee Fire […]
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