By Barbara Pidermann Mental noise can affect the ability to concentrate and often contributes to anxiety. This continuous inner conversation in your head can be particularly bothersome at bedtime or when waking in the middle of the night. Here are a couple tricks to calm or turn off mental noise when trying to sleep. 1. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Seeking justice isn’t what Joe Talbert was after. He just wanted an interesting subject for one of his college classes. He got that and then some when he chose convicted child murder Carl Iverson. As a former defense attorney Allen Eskens has an authenticity with the criminal details that many writers struggle […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s always an interesting hike when you have to flag down a truck to ask where you are. And so it was late last month with Rosemary. We knew where we wanted to go. And we got there. We just didn’t know where we were when we went a little farther. We […]
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By Bob Cliff Everyone knows what Barton Memorial Hospital does. We have all used it for one reason or another. Yet many people in our community may not fully appreciate what Lake Tahoe Community College brings to our community. On June 30, LTCC held its graduation ceremony with over 150 students getting a degree or […]
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By Alene Dawson, Los Angeles Times The sizzling summer sun doesn’t have to keep you from enjoying California’s great outdoors, but be smart about it. Even though there’s growing awareness about the damage sun rays can cause, the rates of melanoma have been rising for the last 30 years, said David Andrews, a senior […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Frustrated about unaffordable housing or clogged freeways? Think of it as the price you pay for living in one of the world’s largest economies. California’s economy ranked sixth in the world in 2016, according to rankings released by Palo Alto economist Stephen Levy last week. That’s the same as the […]
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By Lawrence Lenhart, High Country News First things first: Coyote. When you read the word, how many syllables do you hear? Your answer, according to Dan Flores, author of Coyote America, may be “immediately diagnostic of a whole range of belief systems and values.” The ki-YOH-tee versus ki-yote divide is one of the best indicators […]
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· Frontier Airlines is returning to Reno-Tahoe International Airport in November. · On July 25 from 6am-3:30pm the parking lot for the El Dorado Trail trailhead at Missouri Flat Road will be closed due to construction. · Barwick & Siegfried, an acoustic roots duo, will play at the Grand Lawn at Valhalla on July 23 […]
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Lake Valley Fire Protection District is offering free chipping through October. Converting slash and cut limbs into wood chips reduces flammable vegetation and helps homeowners create defensible space to protect their property from the threat of wildfire. The program includes residents of El Dorado County, South Lake Tahoe, Fallen Leaf, and Alpine County. Go online […]
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Truckee Cultural District has been selected as one of California’s premier state-designated cultural districts. Truckee joins 13 other districts that will launch the innovative new program highlighting thriving cultural diversity and unique artistic identities within California. A cultural district, as outlined by the program, is a well-defined geographic area with a high concentration of cultural […]
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