Smoke in Truckee from controlled fires
People in the Truckee area are reporting concerns about smoke plumes. Officials say it is from prescribed burns in the Eldorado National Forest. For more info, call 530.587.3558.
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King Fire sites reopening for public access
Stumpy Meadows Boat Ramp and Picnic Area, located east of Georgetown in the Eldorado National Forest, is open to the public. This is one of the changes in the forest closure order for areas affected by the King Fire. Due to the hazards of dead trees along roads within the burned area, most of the closure […]
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Calif. lawmakers aim to limit vaccine exemptions
By Fenit Nirappil, AP SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers proposed legislation Wednesday that would require parents to vaccinate all schoolchildren unless a child’s health is in danger, joining only two other states with such stringent restrictions. Parents could no longer cite personal beliefs or religious reasons to send unvaccinated children to private and public schools under […]
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Decrease in water use by Calif. may be temporary
By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News Driven by drenching rainstorms that dramatically reduced the need to water lawns, Californians cut water use 22.2 percent in December compared with the same month a year before, according to new data released Tuesday. For the first time since last June, when the State Water Resources Control Board […]
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Snowshoe fundraiser at Camp Rich
The Tahoe Mountain Milers Running Club is hosting the Fresh Tracks 5K Snowshoe Walk and Race on Feb. 22 at 10am at Historic Camp Richardson Resort. The beneficiaries are the Eric Nageotte-Lowe Scholarship Fund for the Heavenly Freestyle Team and Girls On the Run-Sierra. If there is now show, it will be run-walk. Register before […]
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Caesars changing CEOs
By Nikki Bowers, KLAS-TV LAS VEGAS — Caesars Entertainment Corporation announced Wednesday that its CEO was stepping down. “After 12 years as CEO, Caesars has accomplished more than what we could have imagined when I arrived in 1998. Now, with the company in the midst of a formal restructuring of one of its subsidiaries and […]
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Hard Rock — branding Tahoe’s music lifestyle
By Scott A. Lukas STATELINE – As someone who studies themed and immersive spaces from around the world, I have always felt that Tahoe (and its many consumer spaces) needs a theme … besides itself. In this case, music is the theme of choice. In so many ways, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is […]
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Opinion: Ring the school bell later
By Richard V. Reeves, Wall Street Journal It is easy to lose heart over the prospects of improving American education, and in particular for narrowing achievement gaps between affluent and poorer students. Reforms are often expensive, politically fraught, or structurally complex (or all three). But once in a while, along comes a reform that is […]
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Homewood closes; rain forecast for Tahoe
Mother Nature is crippling the ski season. Homewood Mountain Resort has closed because of the lack of snow. The resort said if conditions improve, it will reopen. January was a record dry month for the Lake Tahoe Basin. Resorts with little or no snow making capabilities are struggling to cope. A storm is headed to the basin Thursday […]
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Snippets about Lake Tahoe
• Lake Tahoe Bike Coalition has a new website. • The former Econo Lodge in South Lake Tahoe has new owners and it now called Sunray Tahoe Hotel. • Tahoe Regional Young Professional’s Feb. 18 professional development workshop is titled TRPA 101. Those in attendance will learn how the TRPA operates, and what takes place […]
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