By Fresno Bee Clovis West High boys basketball coach Tom Orlich, who won three Central Section championships and more than 300 games in 14 seasons, is retiring from his district job and will join the staff of new Stanford coach Jerod Haase. Orlich’s retirement as a teacher and coach was announced in a Clovis Unified […]
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· Paradise Park in Meyers is looking for volunteers to help clean up the area on June 11 from 9am-1pm. Bring gloves, rakes and shovels. · University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s Living with Fire Program team received the Great Basin Fire Mitigation, Education and Prevention Award at the Great Basin Fire Mitigation, Education and Prevention […]
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An electrical short caught a mattress on fire Friday at a South Lake Tahoe hotel. Two people staying in the room at the Sky Lake Lodge were taken to Barton Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. The fire was contained to that one room. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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By Terra Breeden Spring is upon us in Lake Tahoe, and with it, farmers markets are springing up all around the basin. With the growth of the organic food movement, the popularity of farmers markets has exploded. Now, there are markets throughout Lake Tahoe all summer. South Shore El Dorado County Certified Farmers Market American […]
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By Stephen Pyne “And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.” — William Shakespeare The images are gripping. Horizons glow with satanic reds squishing through black and bluish clouds, as though the sky itself were bruised and bleeding. Foregrounds bristle with scorched neighborhoods still drifting with smoke and […]
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By Ivana Kottasova, CNN Money The world is flooded with plastic garbage. There will be more plastic than fish in terms of weight in the world’s oceans by 2050, the World Economic Forum warned. Plastic has become one of the world’s most popular materials, combining amazing functionality and very low production costs. Its use […]
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By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle If item No. 1 on your summer to-do list is to witness the booming waterfalls of Yosemite National Park, you’re in for a treat. Water levels appear to have rebounded from four years of drought and we’re now in a window of peak waterfall conditions. U.S. Geological Survey numbers indicate water […]
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UCCE Master Gardeners of Lake Tahoe’s annual Jamboree and Plant Sale is June 11. Master gardeners will be on hand to answer questions about gardening at Tahoe. Whether it is growing vegetables, learning which plants attracts butterflies and bees, finding out how to keep a garden growing with less water, or learning about various phenology studies […]
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To the community, The South Tahoe Association of Realtors (STAR) is opposed to the moratorium on multi-family units being allowed to operate as vacation home rentals (VHRs), recently adopted by the South Lake Tahoe City Council. STAR, a not-for-profit trade organization that represents more than 300 Realtor members, wants to make it clear, to the City Council and […]
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By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee With recreational marijuana headed for the fall ballot, a new poll finds that 60 percent of likely voters support the concept of legitimizing the drug in California. The Public Policy Institute of California, in a poll out Wednesday, looked at the general popularity of other issues expected on the Nov. […]
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