By Ally Gravina, Moonshine Ink At the bottom of its beer and wine list, Pianeta, a 19-year-old Italian restaurant in downtown Truckee, presents diners with the option to buy a six-pack as a gratuity for the kitchen staff. When customers place the order, a ticket not only prints at the bar for accounting purposes, but […]
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Air quality in the Tahoe-Carson-Reno areas has deteriorated because of the Detwiler Fire in Mariposa County. AIRnow said the air quality for Reno is unhealthy for sensitive groups. People should stay indoors and avoid heavy exercise or work outdoors. Air quality on the South Shore is not great either; the same goes for the Truckee […]
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South Lake Tahoe Friends of the Library is hosting local author Todd Borg on Aug. 15. Borg will read from his latest book, “Tahoe Payback,” at the 6:30pm event at the library on Rufus Allen Boulevard. Borg will also share his writing techniques, inspirations and story lines. Book sale and signing to follow. A synopsis […]
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By Kathryn Reed While I like cheese, so often at restaurants it’s difficult to taste anything but the cheese in a quesadilla. That is why at home I prefer to be light on the cheese and heavy on the other stuff. With that thinking, that is why there is not an exact quantity for the […]
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By Susan Wood Come next May, the California Highway Patrol will have silenced its voice out of Truckee – moving the communications dispatch center to Chico. The move is part of a five-year infrastructure plan by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to consolidate dispatch centers labeled PSAPs – Public Safety Answering Points. CHP manages 25 dispatch […]
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By Sasha DiGiulian, Outside I recently read an article on Racked titled “Want to Sell Me Sportswear? Show Me an Athlete,” and it resonated with me as a professional athlete who’s never been in a major sportswear ad. It made me ask: Why do big athletic companies, like Nike, Adidas, and Reebok, often choose high-fashion models to pose as female […]
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By Ed O’Keefe and Amy B. Wang, Washington Post Police said a “threatening note” was found over the weekend after a break-in at the Las Vegas office of Sen. Dean Heller, a Republican who could be a critical swing vote on the GOP health-care bill. Las Vegas police said officers responded to a call about a burglary […]
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Hot summer weather has forced Squaw Valley to finally end the 2016-17 ski season. The last day was July 15. This was after 200 days of operation; the average season is 174 days. This is the latest the resort has ever been open. The 728 inches that fell last season included breaking the record for […]
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By Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times As he prepared to launch his fishing boat from the dock at Castaic Lake, longtime angler Dan Curtis recalled conditions two years earlier when the state’s worst drought shriveled the reservoir to nearly a third of its total capacity. The lake is now near capacity, but below the […]
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By Paul Rogers, Bay Area News Group TRUCKEE — A breathtaking landscape of Sierra Nevada meadows, forests and wetlands larger than San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park — located 20 miles north of Lake Tahoe — will be preserved from development under a $10 million deal that closed Friday. The Carpenter Valley is 1,317 acres, a […]
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