By Elgin Stallard, Outside Two young men set off last year on an unthinkable task: pick up, haul out, and dispose of every single piece of trash they saw on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail. It’s a Herculean job when you consider that people leave everything from used toilet paper and diapers to spent batteries […]
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The man who drowned last weekend at Sand Harbor has been identified as Jose Partida, 27, of Sparks. The official cause of death was accidental drowning. Partida was swimming around the a rocks in the late afternoon of July 29. He was brought to shore but unable to be revived. — Lake Tahoe News staff […]
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Former Alpine County clerk, Dolores Clark, died June 28, 2017. She was 82. Dolores Genevieve Luiz was born in Napa Valley on Oct. 12., 1934. She was of Portuguese decent; something she was always very proud of. She married Norman Gentry in 1956; soon to follow were their two children. Dolores was a banker for […]
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By Melinda Myers Make recycling green debris into compost convenient and attractive. Create a space you and your neighbors will appreciate. And locate composting in a convenient area that is easy to access and manage so you are more likely to do it. You’ll quickly recoup your initial investment of time and money by spending […]
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By Kathryn Reed The validity of a contract between Alpine County and South Tahoe Public Utility District as well as the amount of money involved in the document were the subject of a grand jury investigation in the last year. The 2016-17 Alpine County Grand Jury report that came out this summer concluded that the […]
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By Garry Bowen The title today is to introduce a bit of a word game, but timed to coincide with several Tahoe items, not to mention the beginning of our calendar’s eighth month, August. The word august is not used as much as it once was, meaning as it does: respected, impressive, or inspiring reverence […]
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By Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle High school students toting both textbooks and newborns are becoming increasingly rare. But a Trump administration proposal to rewrite federal birth control mandates could soon change that, some medical experts fear. The teenage birth rate in the United States has hit an all-time low after nearly three decades of […]
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The Ranch Fire that burned more than 140 acres in El Dorado County’s wine country was human caused. According to CalFire, a person was cited and educated after it was determined he was grinding metal near dry grass, which sparked the blaze. The fire, which is 100 percent contained, started July 26 on Ranch Camp […]
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By Paul Nelson, KTVN-TV About a half-hour north of Truckee, down a rough, dirt road, you will find Independence Lake. It has been described as a small version of what Lake Tahoe looked like 100 years ago, with very little development. The Nature Conservancy is trying to keep it that way. It paid $15 million […]
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Two people died Thursday morning in a sky diving accident at the Minden airport. Guide Ashlie Caceras, 43, of Lodi and David Becker, 21, of Sankt Martin, Germany, were tandem skydiving. Douglas County sheriff’s Deputy Jim Halsey told Lake Tahoe News the cause of accident is under investigation. His department and the FAA are involved. […]
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