Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care received its first cub of the season on Memorial Day. This is just two months after the last bear was released. Weighing-in at 9.8 pounds, the little guy was given a physical by Kevin Willitts. Willitts, who owns Alpine Animal Hospital, is also the veterinarian for the South Shore animal rehab […]
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May is 31 tidbits about Lake Tahoe News month. LTN tidbit No. 29: Sometimes images tell a story better than words. That is why the Gallery (accessed at the top of the page) has groups of photographs without words. This is an easy way to look at images without reading the story. You can view […]
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Publisher’s note: This is reprinted from the June 1989 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. Many hotels have been built on the shores of Lake Tahoe in the past one hundred and thirty years. There were good ones and bad ones, rustic and primitive ones and there were also elegant ones. One of the most celebrated […]
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• South Lake Tahoe Community Services Summer Activity and Facility Guide is available on the city’s website and at the Parks and Recreation center. • Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care’s webcam is back giving people a view of three bobcats that recently came to the South Shore rehab facility. • Mark Hardy has joined Truckee’s Van […]
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By Kenneth Newman Is the loss of a pet is akin to the loss of furniture, a computer or a car? As a 33-year veterinarian and author of “Meet Me at the Rainbow Bridge”, I have proposed a law that answers this question. Gracie’s Law recognizes the emotional bond between pet and owner by entitling […]
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By Kathryn Reed Snowmobiles stored across multiple lots in a residential area. Overturned garbage cans with trash strewn about. Boarded up abandoned houses. Businesses moving half their belongings to the outdoors. Junk cluttering yards so it looks like a mini landfill. This is South Lake Tahoe. While not every parcel is a visual nightmare, hardly […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee The United Nations is haunting El Dorado County. Critics of a 20-year-old U.N. document called Agenda 21 are becoming more vocal, blaming it for any number of ills in the county. Agenda 21 came out of a United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It recommends a framework […]
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By Anita Creamer, Sacramento Bee Rachael Mahoney is in the midst of a decade of loss. In the past few years, her father and her sister, her only sibling, died. Her marriage ended in divorce. And now her elderly mother’s health is failing. “It’s tough,” said Mahoney, 50, who works for the state and lives […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – Long-time Republican political consultant Sig Rogich said the 2013 Nevada Legislature has to take a serious look at collective bargaining reforms so that situations like the impending layoff of hundreds of Clark County teachers can be avoided in the future. “I think we’ve got to look […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee In a major case involving gay rights at CalPERS, the nation’s largest public pension fund has been ordered to offer its long-term care insurance program to same-sex partners of California workers. A federal judge in Oakland struck down portions of the federal Defense of Marriage Act that have prevented the […]
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