By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON – In the nearly 37 years that Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care has been nursing wild animals back to health, about 24,000 have come through the doors, with approximately 15,000 being able to return to the wild. The South Shore facility is the only one in California certified to handle first-year […]
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By Larry Weitzman After at least a dozen columns describing the mismanagement of El Dorado County business by county Chief Administrative Officer Terri Daly, the CAO resigned under pressure from the Board of Supervisors, who finally recognized that an immediate change was necessary. The light bulbs finally went off when the BOS recognized that because […]
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he Douglas County Public Library in Minden and Zephyr Cove will be closed Nov. 27-28. Both libraries will close at 5pm Nov. 26. The Minden library will resume its regular schedule on Nov. 29 at 10am. The Zephyr Cove library will reopen Nov. 29 at 9am.
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Tahoe-based nonprofit Zawadisha Fund is teaming up again with Bona Fide Books to offer an opportunity to shop locally while having global impact this holiday season. Connect with contemporary local artists, crafters and entrepreneurs at the 4th annual Zawadisha Holiday Bazaar on Small Business Saturday: Nov. 29 from 10am-3pm at Bona Fide Books,1069 Magua St., […]
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• Devin Middlebrook has been hired by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency as an environmental education specialist. He replaces Kristi Boosman. Lucia Maloney has been hired as an associate planner, replacing Shay Navarro who took another position within TRPA. Bruce Barr has been hired as the forester to replace Megan Scheeline. • Mammoth Mountain is […]
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By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Experimental mice have been telling us this for years, but pot-smoking humans didn’t want to believe it could happen to them: Compared with a person who never smoked marijuana, someone who uses marijuana regularly has, on average, less gray matter in his orbital frontal cortex, a region that is […]
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Sierra Nevada Ballet will be performing “Peanutcracker – The Story in a Nut Shell” on Dec. 6 in the Bob Boldrick Theater in the Carson City Community Center at 2 and 7pm. Based on Lev Ivanov‘s original ballet “The Nutcracker,” “Peanutcracker” is a shorter, 45-minute narrated version that is designed for families with younger children to introduce them […]
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By Lousi Sahagun, Los Angeles Times John Muir is the patron saint of environmentalism, an epic figure whose writings of mystical enlightenment attained during lone treks in California’s wilderness glorified individualism, saved Yosemite and helped establish the national park system. As the first president of the Sierra Club, Muir shaped enduring perceptions about how the […]
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By Sumathi Reddy, Wall Street Journal The growing interest in eating healthy can at times have unhealthy consequences. Some doctors and registered dietitians say they are increasingly seeing people whose desire to eat pure or “clean” food—from raw vegans to those who cut out multiple major food sources such as gluten, dairy and sugar—becomes an […]
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Forty-nine local organizations and projects got a monetary boost from Heavenly and Kirkwood mountain resorts. The checks were given out under Vail Resorts EpicPromise. The dollar amounts that entities received was not disclosed. Recipients for the 2014-15 grants cycle include: Amador Community College Foundation, American Youth Soccer Organization Region 282, Austin’s House, Barton Hospital Foundation, Boys […]
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