Sunday is not the day to plan to be outside, at least in Lake Tahoe, according to the National Weather Service in Reno. That “s” word (snow) is even in the forecast at elevations above 9,500. For the rest of the basin it could be rain and thunderstorms. Temperatures are expected to be 10 to […]
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By Kathryn Reed In some ways the athletes inducted into South Lake Tahoe’s Champions Plaza look ordinary. But wait. Listen to their accomplishments or watch them in person or on TV or look at photographs and the truth is crystallized. These are no ordinary human beings. These 11 athletes, five could not attend the June […]
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By Joe Mathews Since the 1990s, California’s leaders have promised to make preschool universal for every child. Maybe they’ll do it by the time I have grandchildren. It’s already too late for my own kids. The youngest of my three sons graduated from preschool last week. I celebrated by writing my final preschool check, for […]
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By Zlati Meyer, USA Today Under pressure by environmentalists, McDonald’s said Friday that it will start testing alternatives to plastic straws at select locations in the U.S. later this year. The burger giant also announced that it will adopt more eco-friendly paper straws across all its 1,361 restaurants in the United Kingdom and Ireland, a region where the company […]
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By Yvonne Gonzalez, Las Vegas Sun Tens of thousands more voters were registered as neither Democrat or Republican this midterm election compared with 2014, with most of that growth coming from Libertarians. Voters outside the Democratic and Republican primaries had a limited ballot of nonpartisan candidates in their jurisdiction to choose from. A slew of […]
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By Margot Kushel, The Conversation One-quarter of homeless people in the U.S. live in California, despite Californians making up only 12 percent of the population. Not only is homelessness more common on the West Coast, but it is also more visible because a higher proportion of homeless people are unsheltered. In the U.S., 24 percent […]
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Park rangers will be giving guided tours of the historic bull wheel located near Incline Village on June 30. The bull wheel was part of the Great Incline Tramway of the Sierra, and was used for logging during the Comstock Era. The tour will begin at 9:30am and end by 3pm. Vehicles are provided. Be […]
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· Music in the Castle is a fundraiser for Vikingsholm at the castle in Emerald Bay. The twilight reception in the courtyard includes wine from Fawnridge Winery and hors d’oeuvres following the concert. It will be July 14 from 5-7:30pm. Tickets are $100. For more info, email dtran@sierrastateparks.org. · For the fourth year, writing industry […]
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By Sierra Davis, Powder The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, a national organization that protects the outdoors by teaching and inspiring people to enjoy it responsibly, recently released new guidelines for social media as it relates to documenting our time spent in the outdoors. We like their suggestions a lot. (We may consider […]
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To the community, Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless is grateful to Mechanics Bank for a corporate donation of $2,500. Founded in 1905, Mechanics Bank provides personal banking, business banking, trust and estate services, brokerage and wealth management services throughout California. They invests in the same communities in which they live and work. “As a community […]
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