Flames were shooting 70 feet in the air when South Lake Tahoe firefighters arrived Wednesday morning to a structure fire. What at first looked like multiple houses on fires turned out to be large sheds. “We found a large body of fire between three different homes,” Battalion Chief Jim Drennan told Lake Tahoe News. He […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee A man whose van landed in the American River after he allegedly drove into oncoming traffic on Highway 50, causing a head-on collision, is in El Dorado County Jail accused of attempted murder. California Highway Patrol officers responded about 6:35pm Monday to a two-vehicle collision on Highway 50 near Randall […]
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Bona Fide Books in Meyers has a new publisher, and a new book coming out this spring. Maeko Bradshaw recently took over the independent press from Kim Wyatt, who founded the company in 2009, specializing in nonfiction and poetry. Bradshaw, a Tahoe local, received a master’s in book publishing from Portland State University. Her first […]
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The Tahoe Valley Thunderbird Choir shined at the Music in the Parks Choir Festival in April. Students grades 3-5 traveled off the hill to Vanden High School in Fairfield on April 21 to be adjudicated for the first time. The intention was to provide the students with the opportunity and experience of performing under pressure […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s as though the South Lake Tahoe City Council is unraveling one thread at a time, with the holes of incompetency and distrust exposing themselves a little bit more each time the electeds meet. Tuesday was the latest episode of “Dysfunction at 6,200 feet.” On the May 1 agenda was the MRG […]
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By Tom McClintock For years the left has attacked the Second Amendment as the progenitor of gun violence, and demonized the millions of Americans who support their right of self-defense as abettors of child murder. Yet it is the policies of the left that have produced this tragically familiar story: a deranged individual, known to […]
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By Kristen Knutson and Malcolm von Schantz, The Conversation Do you wake up bright eyed and bushy-tailed, greeting the sunrise with cheer and vigor? Or are you up late into the night and dread the sound of your alarm clock? We call this inherent tendency to prefer certain times of day your “chronotype” (chrono means […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College will be hosting a Gift of Literacy event May 25 so each Lake Tahoe Environmental Science Magnet School student receives a nw hardbound book to help spark a lifelong interest in reading. Among the invited guests who will be reading to local children that day will be two-time Olympic gold medalist […]
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The Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team will continue prescribed fire operations for the next several weeks, weather and conditions permitting. California State Parks will conduct prescribed fire operations in Sugar Pine Point State Park, between General Creek Campground and Tahoma beginning on May 8. The U.S. Forest Service will conduct operations this week on Highway […]
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By Lake Tahoe News South Lake Tahoe residents known as the Tahoe Neighborhoods Group on April 30 submitted 1,651 signatures on a petition to limit vacation home rentals in the city. The group wants voters to decide in November if short-term rentals should only be allowed in the tourist core. VHRs would be eliminated elsewhere […]
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