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Artists reception at Lake Tahoe Airport

South Lake Tahoe and Tahoe Arts Alliance are partnering for the second art gallery reception on Oct. 23 from 6-8pm at City Hall. The Tahoe Arts Alliance connects artists, businesses and organizations on the South Shore. The city’s lobby at the airport serves as a blank canvas to display local artists. The art will be […]

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Ski resort conglomerate mulls new name

By Jason Blevins, Denver Post Vail Resorts. American Skiing Co. Aspen Skiing Co. Boyne USA. Triple Peaks. Intrawest. Peak Resorts. North America’s largest ski resort operators have historically directed more creative effort into marketing and business plans than picking a company name —  with the exception, arguably, of Utah’s Powdr Corp. Resort companies tend to be […]

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Anderson plows her own path to Olympic gold

Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of stories about Lake Tahoe area athletes who hope to compete in the 2018 Olympics in South Korea. By Kathryn Reed PARK CITY, Utah – Age is not spoiling the free spirit known as Jamie Anderson. She still marches to her own drummer. She is just as […]

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Opinion: Not sold on single-payer health care

By Joe Mathews I’m so disappointed in myself. I should be 100 percent supportive of establishing California’s own single-payer health system, which means that one entity—the government—pays for everyone’s healthcare. After all, the best Californians are for it. California’s next governor, Gavin Newsom, has made single-payer central to his campaign. America’s next president, California U.S. […]

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Calif. first state to require pet stores to sell rescue animals

By Mina Corpuz, Los Angeles Times   California will be the first state to require pet stores to sell rescue animals under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday. Starting in 2019, pet stores will transition to selling dogs, cats and rabbits from shelters or adoption centers. Stores can be fined $500 for each animal […]

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Wine Country wonders when tourists will return

By Ryan Sabalow, Dale Kasler And Ellen Garrison, Sacramento Bee The sun was shining, the temperatures were pleasant and, by all rights, the tasting room at Buena Vista Winery should have been packed Sunday. Instead, California’s oldest winery was surrounded by a phalanx of exhausted, soot-covered firefighters. Wine barrels were dusted in ash, and the […]

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Are club teams hurting high school sports?

By Dave Zook, Moonshine Ink That Tahoe/Truckee kids have a good amount of sporting options would be an understatement. There are the traditional ball sports that most Americans grow up with. And then there are the sports unique to a mountain town, such as mountain bike leagues and skiing — alpine, big mountain, and Nordic, […]

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Snippets about Lake Tahoe

·      “The Life Aquatic” will be shown for free Oct 19 at 6:30pm in the TADA Viewing Room at South Tahoe High School. Discussion will follow.  ·      Liberty Utilities is planning an outage for parts of Meyers on Oct. 18 from 9am to 4pm to replace a pole in the Blitzen and Colusa area. ·      […]

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Event will help LTWC keep helping animals

Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care is having a fundraiser on Oct. 19 at the Lake House restaurant in South Lake Tahoe. The animal rehab facility, which has been in operation for nearly 40 years, is on a campaign to raise money to sustain operational costs. Those expenses are expected to increase substantially when the new center […]

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NorCal facing wildfires more typically seen in the south

By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times   Block after block of tidy housing tracts reduced to heaps of ash. Death counts in the double digits. Homeowners numbly poking through the ruins of domestic life. California has seen this before. But the harrowing images of loss and destruction usually come out of the south. “These kinds […]

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