By Leslie Patton, Bloomberg Hipsters are dropping it into cocktails and coffee. A major food distributor is packing it into a trendy new pastry. Bob Evans Farms Inc. is slipping it into waffles and McDonald’s Corp. onto its signature muffins. What’s this new craze? It’s none other than your grandparents’ standby, butter. Yes, butter, it […]
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By USSA CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine – Resi Stiegler (Jackson, Wyo. – U.S. Ski Team) and AJ Ginnis (Vouliagmeni, Greece – U.S. Ski Team) were victorious under a sunny, bluebird spring day in Sunday’s slalom at the U.S. Alpine Championships in Sugarloaf. On the women’s side, Stiegler found herself atop the podium at U.S. Alpine […]
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By Larry Weitzman Prius Hybrid has been around the United States since 1999. As complex a vehicle as it is, it is one of the most reliable and fail-safe vehicles ever sold in the United States. Even the batteries are almost bullet-proof, with failures even after 10 years being an extremely rare occurrence. Part of […]
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By Todd Prince, Las Vegas Review-Journal Chris Connelly, founder of one of the first sports betting mutual fund in the U.S., was killing it during 2016. His Contrarian Investments LLC was up 31 percent on Dec. 18 compared with a 10 percent return for the Dow Jones over the same period. His bets on the […]
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· South Tahoe High School’s spring concert is March 29 at 7pm in the student union conference rooms. It features the school’s jazz band, wind band, and orchestra. · El Dorado County Supervisor Sue Novasel on April 6 at 6pm is hosting a second meeting about weekend get-away traffic clogging neighborhoods. It will be at […]
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Lake Tahoe Unified School District’s board of education on Tuesday is expected to give all employees a 2 percent raise. The raise is for the current school year and would be retroactive to Jan. 1. Also part of the contract agreement is for the district to increase what it pays for health insurance from $10,232 […]
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By Wade Tyler Millward, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada’s unemployment rate saw the largest decline nationwide for year-over-year February unemployment. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the state posted a 1.2 percentage point decrease in February 2016. Nevada went from a 6.1 percent unemployment rate in February 2016 to a 4.9 percent rate in February […]
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By Megan Michelson, Powder Robin Smith, 70, got his start as a ski instructor at an upstate New York ski hill called Swain Ski Center in the 1970s. He went on to own and run that resort for over 20 years and installed the area’s original snowmaking system. When Intrawest bought Mountain Creek, an […]
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Windjammers Yacht Club is having its annual chowder feed/membership drive on April 7 at 6pm. This is a group for people interested in boating on Lake Tahoe and a place to meet like-minded individuals. WYC is a nonprofit promoting sailing, cruising and boating safety at the lake. The $15 includes clam chowder, oyster stew, salad, […]
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The California Tahoe Conservancy, Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District, California State Parks and the U.S. Forest Service may continue prescribed fire operations beginning March. If conditions are favorable, operations may take place near Tahoe City, Glenbrook, Round Hill, Kingsbury Grade, and South Lake Tahoe. Operations may continue over the next several weeks, as conditions allow. […]
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