· Runner’s World lists the Tahoe Rim Trail as one of the top 20 trails in the United States. · The California Tahoe Conservancy has entered an agreement with the California Highway Patrol for officers to monitor the Upper Truckee Marsh for people (and dogs) violating the law. · TJ’s Corral at the Carson Valley […]
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By Kathryn Reed It might be time to buy sunscreen in bulk. South Lake Tahoe has set three records this week. On June 19 it was 90 degrees, breaking the record set in 1988 of 85 degrees; on June 20 it was 90, the old record set in 1981 was 85; and on June 21 […]
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By Jane Braxton, Scientific American The record piles of snow across California’s Sierra Nevada are melting away, exposing once again its breathtaking alpine meadows. As temperatures warm the moist soil, the meadows quicken, cycling carbon from the ground into the atmosphere and back again in a pattern essential to the planet’s health. Scientists and land […]
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“People who United the States” will be the Chautauqua performance at the Dangberg Ranch in Minden on June 28 at 6:30pm. The Douglas County Historical Society’s Young Chautauqua Program presenters are Jahmila Santiago, 15, as Sarah Winnemucca, 15-year-old Sandia Johnson as Abigail Fillmore, 6-year-old Sam Johnson as John Muir, 10-year-old Micaiah Maulis as Thomas Edison, […]
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Alex Zuong set four state weight lifting records in the 82.5kg class while he was a senior at Incline Village High School this year. He bench pressed 125 kilograms, dead-lifted 202.5kg and did a squat with 172.5kg. He set the total weight record at 485kg – that is more than a half a ton. Zuong […]
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By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH – Despite an ongoing lawsuit that could upend the Tahoe City Lodge project, more pieces of the development were secured last week at the California Tahoe Conservancy meeting. The state board on June 15 agreed to sell 16 residential and tourist accommodation units that would equate to 61 usable units […]
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By John Kingsbury, Union Democrat The president of the United States wants to “drain the swamp.” Of course he is using this saying as a metaphor for mismanagement and government waste. It seems to me that California, however, is hell bent to drain the Sierra Nevada – in the literal sense – as if this […]
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By Carol Pogash, New York Times When Dan Goldwater first attached kaleidoscopic LED lights to the spokes of his bicycle wheels and rode through the Burning Man festival at night, the crowd was wowed. And the “burners” — people who flock to the giant late-summer counterculture festival in the Nevada desert — were not the […]
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The fatalities over the weekend of an 11-year-old girl in New Jersey and 19-year-old young man in Ohio are bringing scrutiny to an age-old summer ritual that’s common on waterfronts across America: swimming near boat docks. Initial reports say the youngster died when touching a dock’s electrified boatlift, and the Ohio teen died as a […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP Recreational sales of marijuana in Nevada may not begin next month after all. A judge added to the uncertainty Tuesday when he extended a temporary order barring the state from issuing pot distribution licenses to existing medical marijuana dispensaries so they can begin recreational sales July 1. Carson City District Judge […]
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