By Kathryn Reed Cooking might be the last thing you want to do after Thanksgiving, but at some point turkey isn’t going to sound wonderful no matter how many different ways you reinvent it. This recipe has a few moving parts, but it’s not difficult. What it is is delicious. It’s one of those dishes […]
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By Susan Wood OK kids — get perfect grades and your success could lead to being graded at the Winter Olympic Games one day. And you’ll be in good company. Gold medalist Maddie Bowman of Meyers, who told Lake Tahoe News she plans to compete in the Pyeongchang, South Korea, Olympics Games in 2018, started […]
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By Lisa Margonelli Just before the polls closed on Election Night, I met with 12 of my townspeople at our town hall in Maine, raised my right hand, and took an oath to uphold the federal and state constitutions. We were then assigned to bipartisan pairs (Republican, Democrat, and unaffiliated) to spend the next two-and-a-half […]
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By Paula Span, New York Times It was a modest house, a two-bedroom ranch in Arlington, Mass. Jerri and Richard Newman had to stretch to buy it for $169,000 in 1996, but with his job at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and her freelance editing, they figured they could swing it. They took out a […]
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By Teri Sforza, Orange County Register Businesses in California were given state tax breaks worth about $2.67 billion over the past two decades, with more than half the money going to two sectors of the economy – those trading in war and circus. These tax breaks – denounced as “corporate welfare” or praised as “business […]
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By Keith Ridler, AP It sounds like a big fish story: a plan to create a biodiversity map identifying thousands of aquatic species in every river and stream in the western U.S. But scientists say they’re steadily reeling in that whopper and by next summer will have the first Aquatic Environmental DNA Atlas available for […]
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While Caltrans is done with road work in the Lake Tahoe Basin for now, the transportation department will be back in 2017. Next season will mark the start of Caltrans’ final major water quality project as part of the Lake Tahoe environmental improvement program. The project is on Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe from […]
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South Lake Tahoe is looking for residents to serve on a variety of boards. People are needed for two-year terms for the Airport Land Use Commission, Building/ADA Board of Appeals, Parks and Recreation Commission, and Planning Commission. Completed applications must be returned to the City Clerk’s Office no later than 5pm Dec. 30. Applications are available online.
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· Here is the el-dorado-tahoe roadwork from Caltrans for next week. · Truckee Downtown Merchants Association is putting on Festival Fridays – Dec. 2-9-16 – where businesses will have special promotions and parking is free after 4pm. · Dirt Nasty will be at Whiskey Dicks in South Lake Tahoe on Dec. 28. Doors open at 9pm. […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Following the passage of Propositions 64, Placer County supervisors are trying to keep pace. The state recreational marijuana initiative allows people to grow a limited amount of pot indoors. Supervisors voted 4-0 to allow limited cultivation inside and outside in the unincorporated areas of the county — which includes Lake Tahoe. […]
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