Under all that (dirty?) white fur, is Coco, a 10-month-old poodle who has not been treated like the sweet lap dog he should be. He has never been inside or on a leash. He probably needs help with house training, and it appears that he has never been groomed. So, he needs a patient owner […]
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Music on the Beach, the free concert series at Kings Beach State Recreation Area, has four more concerts this season, Aug. 5-Sept. 2. (There is no concert Aug. 12). Bands in August are Paul David and the Drivers, Miss Lonely Hearts and Forget the Roses and will wrap up with Achilles Wheel. Music is from 6-8:30pm. […]
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No matter how much time and effort is spent in the removal of dandelions, they persist and always return in seemingly larger numbers. Dandelions, weed or feed? is the subject of an Aug. 13 talk at UC Davis Tahoe City Field Station. Learn how to use all parts of the dandelion for foods, drinks, and medicinal […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe City Councilwoman JoAnn Conner has agreed to drop her lawsuit against the city. In December, Conner filed the lawsuit seeking to have the censure imposed on her in October by her four council colleagues be overturned. The censure came about because the council believed Conner’s behavior toward staff was […]
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· Expect delays on Highway 89 between Squaw Valley Road and Cabin Creek Road in Truckee through Thursday. Pavement grinding work will take place from 7am-5pm Aug. 2-4. Approximately one-half mile of one-way traffic controls or narrowed lanes will occur as work progresses along the five-mile work zone. · Burlap & Denim is Bread & Broth […]
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A portable ice rink is expected to open in the winter on the sixth hole of the Tahoe City Golf Course. Tahoe City Public Utility District’s board last month approved the $843,000 project that will be operated by Tahoe Cross Country. It will be open from about Thanksgiving through mid-March. The initial outlay of money […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – Louise Feller is all too familiar with overcoming adversity. That’s why when she decided to attend her sixth Olympic Games as a volunteer, the notion of particular challenges associated with Rio in 2016 left her unfazed. After all, she worked the Games in Athens with a broken leg – the […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee Ron Seeling, the California Public Employees Retirement System’s chief actuary, believed he was speaking to a closed-door seminar in 2009 when he warned that public employee pension costs were becoming “unsustainable.” However, Ed Mendel, a veteran reporter who writes a blog on pensions, was there, and later published Seeling’s dire […]
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By Darcy Costello, AP SACRAMENTO — More than a fifth of California’s recycling redemption centers have closed in the past year, stripping consumers of easy access to recycling and limiting their ability to collect the deposits they made when purchasing bottles and cans. More closures may follow, as the state’s subsidy payment program, meant to […]
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By Blair Anthony Robertson, Sacramento Bee With the Rio Olympics only days away, there’s always the danger that we will become a bunch of couch potatoes fixated on our flat screens, what with all the drama to take in and the athletes to follow. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Sure, the Rio […]
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