By Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee California’s strides toward cleaner air can quickly go up in smoke during one big wildfire. The constant threat of wildfire calls for a radical shift in attitudes toward forest management, not just to save homes and lives but the state’s overall air and water quality. That conclusion spurred the state’s […]
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The Nevada State Historic Preservation Office is seeking public involvement in the development of a new Comprehensive Statewide Historic Preservation Plan that will identify goals that federal, state, and local governments should accomplish in the coming years. Every eight years, SHPO is required to produce a new statewide preservation plan to guide those efforts. Public […]
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Alpenglow Sports kicks off the 2018 Winter Mountain Festival with Mountainfilm on Tour, presented by FlyLow Gear. This series of documentary films curated from the Mountainfilm Festival in Telluride, Colo., will be shown at the Olympic Village Inn on Feb. 17 at 7pm. Mountainfilm’s mission is to use the power of film, art, and ideas […]
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Squibbles is a beautiful German shepherd mix puppy who is about 6 months old. She is sweet and full of puppy energy and wriggles. Squibbles would love to go to training classes. Squibbles is spayed, microchipped, tested for heart worm, and vaccinated. She is at the El Dorado County Animal Services shelter in Meyers, along […]
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By Kathryn Reed Marijuana – it seems to be the high point of so many South Lake Tahoe City Council meetings. Tuesday shouldn’t be any different. The morning will start with the electeds meeting in closed session to discuss the lawsuit with Tahoe Wellness Collective. Last month there was no reportable action when it was […]
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By Ailene Voisin, Sacramento Bee Robby Franco thought about it long and hard, and as we have learned, these skiing/snowboarding acrobats have minds of their own. So when he recovered from doing the splits – he had one ski in Mexico, one ski in America – the El Dorado High School graduate decided to take […]
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By Anne Blaschke, The Conversation “You’ve got a lucky boyfriend.” These were the words the physician’s assistant conducting my gynecological exam in 1998 uttered as he suggestively smiled down at me over my paper gown. I lay on the exam table, 20 years old, wondering what to say back. Feeling angry, embarrassed and violated, I […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Nearly 3,000 free-range horses in Nevada’s Virginia Range could be under new ownership by the end of May, according to state officials. The Nevada Department of Agriculture on Tuesday published a request for proposals for people willing to take ownership of the iconic herd. Opponents of the proposed giveaway say […]
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By John Jeremiah Sullivan, New York Times The history of snowboarding dates to 1938 in Yosemite National Park. A slight young man named Robert Trumbull, a Honolulu newspaper editor who wrote a weather column under the byline Sol Pluvius (Rainy Sun), was on vacation. Chicago-born, Trumbull had seen plenty of snow, and he had been […]
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To the community, I want to thank everyone in the community, and especially in my neighborhood who contacted me in regards to my article on the warm room and the homeless affecting Bijou Pines. To date I have had 20 emails, 24 phone calls, and eight neighbors who have stopped by to say how happy […]
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