Blue is a big pit bull puppy with beautiful silver fur and blue eyes. He is 9 months old, and may get just a bit bigger than his current 75 pounds. He knows several commands, and after he works out his initial excitement at going for a walk he walks pretty nicely on the leash. […]
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By Susan Wood TWIN BRIDGES – Kristin Jacobson remembers almost dying like it was yesterday. The Benicia attorney, an advanced skier, had waited a while for a powder day in 2012. She finally got her wish on St. Patrick’s Day at Sierra-at-Tahoe where she volunteers. She and husband Eric were negotiating the black diamond Upper […]
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By Larry Weitzman Our national pastime, baseball has been with us since the middle of the 19century. To honor its greatest players, a shrine in Cooperstown, N.Y., was created almost 80 years ago to honor the greatest that have played the game. But as we are learning, to become a member of the Baseball Hall […]
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By Associated Press Nevada hunters killed 18 black bears in 2014, the most in the hunt’s four-year history. The Nevada Department of Wildlife says 12 of the bruins were killed in the Pinenut Mountains near Carson City. Others were killed in the Carson Range, Pine Grove Mountains and Washoe Valley, all in Northern Nevada. The […]
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• Tahoe Regional Young Professionals is having a mixer Jan. 14 from 6:30-9:30pm at the Tavern at Tahoe Beach Retreat in South Lake Tahoe. • Golden 1 Credit Union gave $2,500 to the Food Bank of El Dorado County. • Ian Magary will talk about diabetes and the military on Feb. 3 during the monthly […]
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On Jan. 31 at 11am South Lake Tahoe Friends of the Library will be supporting the Sugar Pine Foundation with the reading of “The Happiest Tree in the Forest”, a new children’s book about the sugar pine trees of Lake Tahoe. With colorful and playful illustrations, the book tells the story of Lambe, a lonely […]
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By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times Fast food has gotten a little better for you over the last 18 years — except in cases where it’s gotten worse. Among 27 menu items subjected to scrutiny by Tufts University researchers, eight of the offerings contained fewer calories in 2013 than in 1996 and nine contained more. […]
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By Richard Chang, Sacramento Bee A longtime animal rescue group has run out of cash, leaving El Dorado County officials scrambling to provide care to an unprecedented 91 horses. The nonprofit Grace Foundation was formally evicted Nov. 20 from a private ranch off Latrobe Road after losing its insurance, said the foundation’s executive director, Beth […]
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Lifelong Homewood resident Suzi Elizabeth Berens brought love and joy to those around her from the day she was born Nov. 15, 1958, until she passed away on Dec. 15, 2014 surrounded by family and friends in Hermosa Beach. Along the way, she made innumerable friends through her relentless optimism, loyalty and selflessness that inspired […]
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By Miguel Llanos, NBC News Drought? What drought? Californians could be forgiven for asking that question after two big storms in December brought record rain to the north and mountain snow to Southern California that dusted palm trees in some lower-elevation towns. The start of a new year, however, has the state back in a […]
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