By Julia Prodis Sulek, San Jose Mercury News BISHOP — The fire came up quickly here in the eastern Sierra Nevada, destroying 35 homes and taking the mountainside community of Swall Meadows by surprise. Who would expect a roiling wildfire — throwing fireballs and whipping up flame whirls through 7,000 acres of sagebrush, piñon and […]
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The Truckee Wolverine Boosters Club is hosting its third annual golf tournament on May 31 at the Golf Club at Gray’s Crossing. It will be a four- person scramble format and the cost is $125 per person. Check in at 9am, with a shotgun start at 11am. This event includes raffle prizes, silent auction, putting […]
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By Nora Krug, Washington Post One of the most coveted books of the season is not a thriller or a celebrity tell-all but an oversize, 472-page annotated autobiography with hundreds of detailed notes and several appendixes. It weighs roughly three pounds and is printed on specially cut paper. Unlike typical New York Times bestsellers, it […]
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An El Dorado County man was arrested April 24 after leading El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies on a chase. Abram Sassenberg, who was wanted on a felony warrant, was spotted by a deputy driving in Pollock Pines. Sassenberg also had a suspended driver’s license and was not supposed to be operating a motor vehicle. Deputies […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Immersed in a kaleidoscope of blues and greens, the landscape is mesmerizing. Perched on a slab of granite, its an unobstructed view of the hues of Lake Tahoe that complement the pale blue sky. Wispy clouds dance in the sky. Pines hover overhead, with branches dangling down as though to […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee Dollar Tree Inc. is the latest company to pay millions of dollars to California counties and cities to settle claims that its stores illegally disposed of hazardous waste. The order for payment of $2.7 million was issued by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Morris Jacobson and announced Friday by 46 […]
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South Tahoe Public Utility District has a vehicle that is so old the state Air Resources Board says its days are numbered for being able to legally be on the streets. It has been around since 1997. By 2017 is has to be pulled from service because the parts to upgrade it to state standards […]
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By Gabrielle Canon, Mother Jones Here’s something that won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has ever devoured a pint of Rocky Road after a miserable day at work: Researchers at UC Davis recently found that 80 percent of people report eating more sweets when they are stressed. Their study, published in the the Journal […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – The average person now lives farther from where her food is produced than at any other time in history. And, yet, without food, people won’t survive. Feeding a world of nearly 9 billion people is not easy. And while there are 100 million fewer people classified as hungry today […]
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By Rebekah Rodriguez-Lynn On Nov. 20, 2014, President Obama gave a historic speech on immigration. Despite how profoundly personal this issue is to me, I didn’t watch. For the past decade, I have avoided any mention of immigration reform — hearing or reading about it causes my stomach to churn. The topic brings me back […]
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