By Ashley Cullins, KRNV-TV Two weeks after nearly drowning near Sand Harbor, 19-year-old Jake Blackmon is expected to fully recover. Blackmon was in Tahoe on vacation with a friend. The day before they were supposed to go home to Houston, he nearly drowned. It’s a story that could’ve ended much differently if the people at […]
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A South Lake Tahoe man with a history of battery arrests is behind bars for attempting to murder his longtime roommate. The 46-year-old South Lake Tahoe woman who was nearly beaten to death the night of Aug. 12 with a mallet was clinging to life 24 hours later at Renown Medical Center in Reno. At […]
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• The top four Douglas County manager candidates are Mary Lou Brown, Curtis Calder, Timothy Hacker and James Nichols. There will be a special commission meeting Aug. 18 at 9am in Minden. Final selection will be Sept. 4. • The Kansas City Barbeque Society’s Great American Cookout is on a tour across the nation. It […]
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By Kathryn Reed There will be no Catholic grade school on the South Shore this fall. “We had a hail Mary pass out there with a donor who came in with great support, but it was just short of the goal line,” Stella Roper, spokeswoman for what was to be Lake Tahoe Catholic Academy, told […]
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By Barry Starr, KQED-TV Here in the U.S., we are bombarded with an almost constant barrage of information about the benefits of exercise. And those benefits are real. For example, exercise may help prevent at least 35 chronic unhealthy conditions and premature death. Despite all of this, something like 90 percent of us over the […]
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To the community, Bread & Broth would like to thank the Tahoe/Douglas Elks Lodge No. 2670 for sponsoring their third Adopt A Day of Nourishment for 2014 on July 28. “Elks are always on hand to help our community and vets,” said Roger Barragan as he volunteered at B&B’s Monday evening dinner. B&B appreciates the […]
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By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Are wildfires becoming more extreme? As part of an effort to answer that question, Nevada researcher Tamara Wall is calling on current and past wildland firefighters across the nation to share personal experiences of instances in which they witnessed surprising fire behavior. “This project is driven by a phrase […]
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Deathways of the Comstock Chinese is the latest exhibit at the Comstock History Center. The exhibit, which highlights the death and burial practices of the Chinese, features artifacts, photographs, video and an accurately reproduced, life-sized Chinese gravesite. The free exhibit opens Aug. 14 at 11a.m. The historic Chinese graveyard in Virginia City is no longer […]
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Maria Mircheva, executive director of the Sugar Pine Foundation, will be talking about the work her groups does on Sept. 30 at 5:30pm. There will be video showing how volunteers climbing trees to collect seeds. Plus, there is the chance to examine their giant slingshot. The Sugar Pine Foundation is a local nonprofit dedicated to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Summer is definitely the time of year when a variety of salads are easy to make because of the abundance of fresh ingredients available. Barbecuing the corn gave it an added crunchiness and a hint of charred flavor that you won’t get from boiling the ears. But there would be nothing wrong […]
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