To the community, “Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC) is committed to serving our community and it was an honor to be able to be a part of Bread & Broth,” commented Michelle Sower, dean of instruction. Sower was a sponsor crew member for the LTCC Advance Adult Education program at their Adopt A Day dinner […]
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By KCRA-TV Officials are warning drivers to slow down and not to drive tired after sharing a photo Thursday of a truck adrift in Lake Tahoe. The driver, who was tired at the time, almost hit another driver before crashing into the lake, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said. Read the whole story
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By Taryn Luna and Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee The drought may be over, but California residents should prepare themselves for new and more permanent restrictions on water use. Gov. Jerry Brown signed a pair of bills Thursday to set permanent overall targets for indoor and outdoor water consumption. Assembly Bill 1668 by Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, […]
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“Permanent Vacation II: Eighteen Writers on Work and Life in Our National Parks” will launch June 13 at 7pm in the Aspen Room at Lake Tahoe Community College. The second volume of this popular collection features writers from national parks all over the country, including locales like Cape Cod and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The […]
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· The annual Wagon Train will be coming to Zephyr Cove on June 2, then from Zephyr to Amacker Ranch on June 3, from Meyers to Tamarack Pine on June 4, eventually reaching Placerville on June 9. · Donner Lake Triathlon is July 21-22. For more info, go online. · The Village at Squaw Valley […]
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By Nathan Bomey, USA Today Drugs are being detected in a growing share of drivers responsible for fatal crashes, according to a new study by the Governors Highway Safety Association. Although it’s difficult to tell when drugged driving is a cause of accidents, the findings provide fresh reason for concern that marijuana and opioids are driving […]
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Casinos on both ends of Lake Tahoe posted gaming wins for April. Stateline casinos were up 12.6 percent compared to 2017 at $14.9 million. Slot play was the big factor, which was up 21.3 percent, according to the Gaming Control Board. On the North Shore the win was a modest 1.2 percent increase over a […]
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By Larry Weitzman Most people will think from the headline that the new 2018 Elantra Eco is a battery hybrid, but it’s not. It goes about its business combining a small, 1.4L DOHC 16 valve four-cylinder engine with turbocharging and direct injection. It connects the engine to the front drive wheels via a slick, extremely […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sobering. Scary. Eye-opening. Educational. Thought-provoking. Those are just a few of the ways to describe “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner” (Bloomsbury 2017) by Daniel Ellsberg. If the author’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he is the person who released the Pentagon Papers, which were the subject of the […]
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By Frank Kafka (as told to Joe Mathews) I keep hearing you Californians calling your state’s housing crisis Kafkaesque. You are far too kind: I never imagined a nightmare this cruel, absurd, and surreal. I don’t know exactly how I got to California. But I appeared here some weeks ago, in the form of an […]
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