To the community, Being a member of the Knights of Columbus means that you are there to help those in need. On May 15, members of St. Theresa Church’s Knights of Columbus were doing just that as they volunteered their time to serve at B&B’s Monday meal. They were a helpful and jovial group that […]
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Horace is an 8-year-old who has all the good characteristics of an older dog and all the best features of a puppy. He is house trained, he walks nicely on the leash, he likes to play with girl dogs and has lived with cats and small children. He enjoys riding in cars and is very […]
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By Kathryn Reed With the Upper Truckee River being about two weeks out from reaching its peak flow and the river well beyond its banks, it is too soon to completely assess what worked and what didn’t in regards to the new channel near Lake Tahoe Airport. It will likely be mid-July before officials are […]
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By Larry Weitzman It has been recently confirmed from informed sources that a new attorney has been hired by senior legal. Her first day on the job was May 1. On May 25, this newly hired attorney was informed that her job was being eliminated in El Dorado County’s new proposed budget for 2017-18. The […]
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By Kyle Magin, Tahoe Quarterly A mountain lion stalked Eric Byrnes during the 2016 Western States Endurance Run. Somewhere around mile 55 of the 100-mile course, the 11-year Major League Baseball outfielder and former Oakland Athletic fled from the big cat. This was immediately before Byrnes, then 40, ran past a pack of trailside photographers […]
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Squaw Valley will host the 2018 Liberty Mutual Insurance NASTAR National Championships on March 21-25, the first time the event returns to the Sierra since 1981. NASTAR participants qualify for the championships by earning a top 10 national ranking or a top five state ranking within their age, gender and ability group by Feb. 19. […]
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By Sage Sauerbrey, Moonshine Ink Short-term rentals have become a linchpin component in the housing conversation, and communities across the West have had very different ways of facing the issue. Jackson Hole, Wyo., recently banned short-term rentals, San Francisco has adopted a series of different regulations, and Mammoth Lakes only allows short-term rentals in specifically […]
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By Jeanne Nelson As an active leader in the South Lake Tahoe chapter of NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, I work closely with family members who have loved ones with mental health issues. For many, one of the hardest times was learning about their child, partner, or friend’s diagnosis and not knowing what […]
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· The slope along Highway 50 near Logan Shoals where boulders are on the pavement will be stabilized this summer. The contract is out for bid. · June 10 is the one day a year when anyone can fish in any public fishing water in Nevada without a fishing license or trout stamp. · There […]
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By Maya L. Kapoor, High Country News U.S. Forest Service research ecologist Bob Keane has studied whitebark pine, a coniferous tree of the high country, for more than thirty years. Still, when asked to describe a whitebark to someone who’s never seen one, he takes a breath and pauses for a moment. “Gosh,” he says. […]
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