Louise Feller from Stateline is in Rio volunteering at the Olympics. She was featured in a recent story on Lake Tahoe News. This is a dispatch from her at the Games: “Had a great day but raining. The pictures are from inside the village. So many buildings, but USA doesn’t have any signs on their […]
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By Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy News Service Delivering a big blow to backers of pot legalization, the Obama administration said Thursday that it would keep marijuana classified as one of the nation’s most dangerous drugs, similar to heroin and LSD. The long-awaited decision by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration keeps intact a 1970 law that lists marijuana […]
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Middle and high school girls who want to improve their bike skills and learn race strategies and tips are invited to a series of clinics presented by Bike Like a Girl. They are Aug. 17, Aug. 22 and Sept. 12 at North Tahoe High School from 5:30-7:30pm. Bring your bike, helmet, gloves, snack and water. […]
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TOCCATA-Tahoe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus is putting on three free concerts featuring Northstar Winds. The series kicks off Aug. 13 at 4pm at the St Patrick’s Episcopal Church, located at 341 Village Blvd. in Incline Village. Works to be performed include the “Divertimento in B flat” by Joseph Haydn, “Woodwind Quintette” by Jean Franciax and a […]
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· South Lake Tahoe has introduced the rate of $5 after 5pm at the Heavenly Village parking garage. · Tech Insider compiled a list of the most beautiful libraries in each state. The Prim Library at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village was singled out for the Silver State. · The 19th annual Tahoe Forest Stewardship Day is […]
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By Kathryn Reed Former El Dorado County Supervisor Ray Nutting is suing past colleagues and staff because he believes his constitutional rights were violated. “The reason why I filed a claim is so they cannot do it ever, ever again to someone else,” Nutting told Lake Tahoe News. “If they did it to me, they […]
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By Scott H. Decker Turn on your television in the coming months, and you will see and hear just how much Americans fear strangers and guns. Yet when it comes to violent crime, especially murder, Americans are at much greater risk of falling victim to someone they know, perhaps someone they know intimately. And these […]
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By Neal Morton, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada taxpayers will spend more than half a million dollars to defend the state’s contested education savings account program. The total price tag reached $545,000 on Tuesday as the state Board of Examiners voted 2-0 to approve a $125,000 extension to a contract with the out-of-state law firm Bancroft […]
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On Aug. 12-13, more than 60 of North America’s rarest and finest classic wooden boats will be on display at the historic Obexer’s Boat Company on the West Shore. In its 44th year, the Concours d’Elegance is celebrating the anniversary of a boating icon: Chris-Craft Racing Runabouts. These boats have a rich history that pre-dates World War II. […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun In 2012, after several years working as an executive casino host for the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno and at Harrah’s before that, Sumona Islam took a job with the Grand Sierra Resort three miles away. One problem: Islam had signed a noncompete agreement preventing her from taking […]
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