By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee As the state budget’s deficit widens, Gov. Jerry Brown is being thrust into a three-front political battle. He must not only persuade voters to pass his sales and income tax package, but, implicitly, persuade them to reject a rival tax measure just for schools. Meanwhile, Brown is pressing liberal Democratic […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will begin the sale of fuelwood permits at the South Shore office on June 4 and at the North Shore office on June 6. Permits cost $20 per cord with a two-cord minimum purchase and a limit of 10-cords per household. Permits have specific conditions and […]
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Although your neighbor appears on the outside to be living a “normal” life, and your child is breaking sports records left and right, the people around you might be suffering inside from depression. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 9.5 percent or 20.9 million American adults suffer from a depressive illness in any […]
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The Tahoe City Parks and Recreation is in the beginning stages of launching a program for active and mature adults. The department received a grant donation from the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation to purchase computers, games, exercise weights and more. In addition, special day outings and bingo events are being planned. On June 13, the […]
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Longtime Truckee architect Nicholas Sonder captured the attention of Google last month, so much so that the billion-dollar corporation featured him in a marketing piece at this month’s American Institute of Architects’ national convention in Washington, D.C. Sonder has been a fervent user of SketchUp, a three-dimensional application for design professionals, since it was introduced […]
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By Anjeanette Damon, Las Vegas Sun Crossroads GPS, a conservative group co-founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove, has launched an expensive ad campaign in Nevada targeting President Barack Obama. But there’s a noticeable gap in the ad buy. Crossroads GPS is dark in Washoe County, Nevada’s pivotal swing county that could be the national turning […]
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May is 31 tidbits about Lake Tahoe News month. LTN tidbit No. 26: Giving back to the community is important to Lake Tahoe News. Sometimes it comes in the form of helping out while we are on assignment – like raking pine needles at Valhalla, or picking up trash on Coastal Cleanup Day. It’s a […]
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To the community, Bueno and Marty Kettleson of Bert’s Café recently hosted a spaghetti night fundraiser for Tahoe Arts Project. It was a wonderful evening enjoyed by many. All of us at Tahoe Arts Project would like to thank Bakemark Foods, Crystal Dairy, Bonanza Produce, US Foods, Sausage Factory and of course the staff at […]
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By Cheryl Millham I received a call asking if I had ever heard about a product called Bird Repellent by Tanglefoot. The person told me they were going to do some work on their house and wanted to stop any birds from nesting. Tom and I were in town a few days later and stopped […]
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By Kathryn Reed “Right now we just hope he does not stop breathing.” If he does, it means Derek Penaranda will likely have died. Penaranda’s parents are hoping and praying their son will survive the beating he sustained in a South Lake Tahoe bar last weekend. Today he is clinging to life in a coma […]
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