By Michelle Cottle, Newsweek What could really save Hillary Toucey’s life is a personal-care attendant to help with her 7-year-old son, Eli. Dark-haired, fair-skinned, and fragile, Eli suffers from a raft of health problems: cerebral palsy, celiac disease, epilepsy, asthma, and what his mom calls “pretty severe” autism. His speech is “kind of garbled”; he […]
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Nine South Tahoe High students, three scientists and one conservation coordinator spent part of Saturday planting 300 yellow cress on the beach at Edgewood Tahoe. Edgewood Companies is participating in a volunteer program called the Tahoe Yellow Cress Stewardship Program and has been assisting with inventory surveys since 1979. The endangered plant only grows in […]
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Most campgrounds and recreation sites within the Tahoe National Forest will be open for Memorial Day; however snow is expected to keep some of the more popular trails closed until early or mid-June. There are still some snow banks in the high country, especially on north facing slopes or in shaded areas. Even so, fire […]
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Enjoy the sunshine in Lake Tahoe because it’s about to go away. It wouldn’t be a normal Memorial Day weekend if nasty weather weren’t in the forecast. The brunt of the bad weather is expected to land Friday. The National Weather Service in Reno is calling for 70 percent chance for rain-snow showers. Those odds […]
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The Avoid the 6 DUI Campaign will be deploying officers this holiday weekend at DUI/driver’s license checkpoints and DUI saturation patrols throughout El Dorado County to arrest impaired drivers. The Memorial Day weekend is the first holiday travel period of the summer season and this, coupled with many college and high school graduations, will see […]
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Meyers is hosting a Summer Solstice Celebration on June 23 from 2-6pm. This family-centered event is designed to bring together the healing, artistic and recreational cultures of the Lake Tahoe Basin in a community street fair. Activities will include a parade, live music, art cars, food, children’s recreation and booths featuring local artists and healers. […]
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Update: May 23, 2012, 9:50am: South Lake Tahoe police this morning let Lake Tahoe News know the patron in the weekend bar fight is still alive. Officers are not releasing exact medical conditions per federal law pertaining to medical confidentiality. The name of the person has also not been released, nor have more details about […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun The Internet has become a game-changer for the travel industry. But it was also a job-killer. As the public became more familiar with researching travel options and booking plane tickets and hotel rooms online, people became their own travel agents. Thousands of travel agency professionals lost their jobs, […]
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May is 31 tidbits about Lake Tahoe News month. LTN tidbit No. 23: Lake Tahoe News was born from the frustration of the publisher knowing what she knew wasn’t getting published and unable to imagine what she didn’t know that wasn’t getting published. Simply, we saw a need for a better, timelier news venue that […]
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• The Virginia & Truckee Railroad launches its summer season with round-trip trains between Carson City and Virginia City on Memorial Day Weekend. • Tahoe Figure Skating Club is having a chili fundraiser at Coyote Grill in Round Hill on May 24 from 5-9pm. For more info, email michaelamorgan@avalex.info. • Alex Leff is now conservation […]
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