By Joe Mathews Forgive me for bragging, but my front lawn looks a lot worse than yours. As the drought deepens and the state Water Board revises plans for mandatory restrictions, California’s lawn culture has flipped, dirt-side up. Your local community pillars, once celebrated for lawns and gardens even greener than their money, run the […]
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• This is a photo of the two Twains together at Ski Run Marina. The sculpture is by Jon Hair at the entrance of Riva Grill. • Lake Tahoe’s Paint and Sip Studio is hosting a fundraiser for the League to Save Lake Tahoe on May 4 from 6-8pm. The painting will be of Bonsai […]
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STATELINE — A local government agency is interested in leasing the former Kingsbury Middle School in Stateline. Lisa Noonan, superintendent of Douglas County School District, told the board on April 14 that an entity has expressed interest in potentially taking over the site for 30 years. The school and accompanying acreage have been on the […]
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The Great Ski Race, which has been the Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue Team’s bread and butter fundraiser, has been canceled three out of the last four years due to poor snow conditions. While TNSAR’s annual operating costs are relatively modest, the team needs to find other sources of revenue in order to support its […]
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By Guy Clifton, Reno Gazette-Journal Abraham Lincoln never set foot in Nevada, but the histories of the state and the nation’s 16th president are forever intertwined. “It’s hard to think of a president who had a bigger impact on Nevada,” Michael Green, a history professor at UNLV, said about the president who was shot by […]
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Special Olympics Nevada, local law enforcement agencies, and Applebee’s Restaurants are teaming up to raise money for the nonprofit through tip-a-cop. Officers will trade their handcuffs and badges for aprons and menus this month at Applebee’s in the region. Applebee’s Restaurants for 11 years has helped raise more than $55,000 for Special Olympics Northern Nevada. Special Olympics […]
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By Ian James, Desert Sun U.S. Forest Service officials on Friday said they are making it a priority to examine a long-expired permit that Nestle has been using to pipe water out of a national forest to use for bottled water. Nestle Waters North America has long drawn water from wells that tap into springs […]
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By Sammy Caiola, Sacramento Bee Mary Miller is full of opinions. During her weekly visits with hospice volunteer Joe Lenihan, the 88-year-old doesn’t hesitate to speak her mind – solicited or not. She’ll talk the ear off of a wrong-number caller, and she’s known affectionately around the neighborhood as “Mean Old Mom.” “There are days […]
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South Lake Tahoe is seeking an artist to create an original art piece and/or flag design to be permanently displayed at the city’s newly established Champions Plaza, located on the corner of Highway 50 and Lakeview Avenue within the Lakeview Commons area. On the heels of the 2014 Winter Olympics, in which several local athletes earned […]
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By Tracey Lien and Paresh Dave, Los Angeles Times Science fiction writer David Brin calls it “a tsunami of lights” — a future where tiny cameras are everywhere, lighting up everything we do, and even predicting what we’ll do next. Unlike George Orwell’s novel “1984,” where only Big Brother controlled the cameras, in 2015, cheap, […]
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