By David Montero, Los Angeles Times Joe Leal says he knows the good ones from the bad. He’s been doing this for decades. He trusts that his brown eyes — narrowed beneath a furrowed brow — won’t deceive him. He looks down at the shiny silver handgun under a glass case. Next to it is […]
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Barton Health is seeking past patients and their families to share insights and offer input to improve the patient experience. The Patient Family Advisory Council is being formed where people share the experience they had at Barton Memorial Hospital. The council’s advisors will play an active role in implementing constructive changes to the hospital’s quality […]
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The search for a missing plane is expected to resume this morning. El Dorado County search and rescue teams started looking for the Cessna on Monday, but to no avail. Weather prevented a helicopter from assisting. The pilot of a Cessna flying from Idaho to Sacramento has not been heard from since Saturday. The […]
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· Emerald Bay Towing is now owned by Welcome’s Auto Body and Towing of South Lake Tahoe. · Drug Take-Back Day is Oct. 22 at the Truckee Safeway from 9am-1pm as well as from 9am-noon at the Old Fire Station in Tahoe City above Commons Beach. · Truckee will be hosting Big Truck Day and Open House on Oct. […]
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By Susan Wood The Robert Maloff Center of Excellence is as much about Tahoe’s past as it is building a solid future for sports medicine on the South Shore. “Since 2003, we started talking about this. It’s wellness, fitness and sports performance all in one – something we always needed to do, we just needed […]
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By Michael Schiess Soon after I founded the Pacific Pinball Museum, an ex-police officer contacted me, offering to sell a rare artifact that was once confiscated by the Oakland police force. The object in question was a Bally Bumper pinball machine from 1936. For many, this machine is the quintessential pinball experience. You launch a […]
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By Julie Weed, New York Times Pam and Larry Willis had recently purchased the Gables Wine Country Innin California’s Sonoma wine region four years ago when they received it: their first TripAdvisor threat. “A guest pulled me aside and said he didn’t get the level of concierge service he expected and was going to write […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal A little more than a speck of evidence remains of Black Rock City. Where about 70,000 people rode lobster-shaped cars, danced witch-like in the moonlight and set up camp for a week straight, now there is only dust. Most of the people that participated in the week of artful libations known as Burning Man packed out their couches, skate […]
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A study shows that 412 properties in Truckee that are being used as short-term rentals are not paying transient occupancy tax. This summer Host Compliance was hired by the town to assess which properties were paying TOT. A short-term rental is considered 30 days or less. The company said 979 short-term rentals were available in […]
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By Michael Behar, New York Times At 11 o’clock on the night of Sept. 29, the National Hurricane Center in Miami posted an updated prediction for Hurricane Matthew. Using the latest data from a reconnaissance aircraft, the center’s computerized models led meteorologists there to conclude, in a post on the center’s website, that “only a […]
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