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Mixed media show at holiday bazaar

Tahoe Flow Arts Studio’s fifth annual Holiday Bazaar: eARTh is Dec. 9 at Tahoe Art Haus & Cinema in Tahoe City. This mixed media show includes aerial arts, acrobatics, dance and more. Through entertainment the goal is to ignite activism to start a revolution. Entertainment, Activism, Revolution, Together, Home spells Earth. This year’s Holiday Bazaar is […]

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Joan Jack — 1933-2017

Joan Marie Jack passed away peacefully on Nov. 27, 2017, in South Lake Tahoe, surrounded by her loving family. She was 84. She was born Joan Marie Pluth on Oct. 2, 1933, in Petaluma. She met Don when she was just 17 years old. They were married a few days after her 18th birthday in […]

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Letter: SLT nonprofit helping treat dogs with cancer

To the community, Max was just a tiny puppy when he was found wandering the streets of Houston. Lucky for Max some kind hearted South Lake Tahoe residents who were visiting on vacation found him and took him from the mean streets of Houston back home with them to Lake Tahoe, where he found his […]

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U.N. investigating extreme poverty in the U.S.

By Ed Pilkington, Guardian The United Nations monitor on extreme poverty and human rights has embarked on a coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. to hold the world’s richest nation – and its president – to account for the hardships endured by America’s most vulnerable citizens. The tour, which kicked off on Friday morning, will make […]

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Caltrans work on I-80 to cause delays

Caltrans is alerting motorists that the left lane of westbound Interstate 80 will be closed Dec. 6 from 8am-4pm from Magra to 1.5 miles east of Colfax. Maintenance crews will be performing drainage work. Drains for rain and snowmelt runoff are located along the median in this area of Interstate 80. Because there are only […]

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Helicopter crashes during flight training in Truckee

By Marcella Corona, Reno Gazette-Journal Two pilots were hospitalized and were in stable condition after crashing a helicopter at the Truckee Tahoe Airport on Thursday afternoon. The commercially rated pilots were flying in a two-seat Robinson R22 helicopter when they crashed at the east end of the airport. The crash was reported at about 3:40pm, […]

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Snippets about Lake Tahoe

·      Mickey Avalon, plus the Guestlist and DJ (R) Styles will be at Whiskey Dicks Saloon in South Lake Tahoe on Dec. 29. Must be 21. Doors open at 9pm. Tickets are $25 at the door. ·      Tahoe Women’s Community Fund is looking for members. For more info, go online. ·      On Dec. 9 South Lake […]

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3D image revolutionizes mammograms at Barton

By Kathryn Reed I call it getting my boobs squeezed. It’s an annual ritual most women of a certain age subject themselves to – the mammogram. While I won’t say the new machine Barton Memorial Hospital has is something I would want to experience any more often, it is better than the old piece of […]

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Opinion: Civics should make students squirm

By Sarah Cooper In many conversations, the topic of civics education comes with its own halo. The conventional wisdom is that it’s good, clean medicine, and if our children just get enough of its inoculation, the American body politic will be healthy enough to survive another generation. But after nearly two decades as a middle […]

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N. Nev. schools willing to end true state playoffs

By Ray Brewer, Las Vegas Sun We learned at a young age the importance of beating a high school from Reno in the state tournament. If you played football, the goal was to win the zone championship game at the Silver Bowl, then to carry the flag for Southern Nevada when taking on a team […]

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