By Rebecca Ruiz, Huffington Post Drew McWilliams, a clinician and the Chief Operating Officer at Morrison Child and Family Services in Portland, Ore., suggests that amid the underwater mortgages, chronic unemployment and other fallout of the recent recession, a less obvious but equally worrying phenomenon has emerged: the troubled minds of children. Since the financial […]
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One segment of the Stateline-to-Stateline bike trail should break ground this summer. The bid process is open. Potential contractors have until June 1 at 1:30pm to submit their proposals. Last fall planners had hoped to seek bids in April for the 3.2-mile south demo part of the larger 30-mile route that goes from Stateline to […]
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To the community, Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce would like to thank the event sponsors, volunteers, vendors and attendees of the Mothers’ Day BAHM for a fabulous evening last week at Valhalla. The weather was perfect and more than 100 people were there to support the two winners of the Mothers’ Day Makeover. […]
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What will happen to your children, your business or finances if you are not around? Will your assets go to the people you want? Do you have creditor protection for yourself and your beneficiaries? Barton Foundation is sponsoring a free presentation by Julia Gold, tax and estate planning attorney, to learn how to protect assets […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit and the Tahoe Institute for Natural Science are putting on the third annual Lake Tahoe Bird Festival on June 2 from 10am-4pm. The free event is at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center, located three miles north of South Lake Tahoe on Highway 89. The event includes […]
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By Michelle Andrews, NPR If you’ve got cancer, chances are you’d rather take a pill to fight the cancer cells than sit for hours hooked up to an IV line as the chemotherapy drips slowly into you. The difficulty is, many of the new cancer pills, which often target cancer cells for destruction but leave […]
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The question of where Mark Twain camped on Lake Tahoe has inspired the Gatekeeper’s Museum in Tahoe City to host the Mark Twain Tahoe Mystery Public Festivity featuring two authors with competing theories. The event, which kicks off a summer-long public opinion poll about the two possible sites, will be June 21 at 6:30pm at […]
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May is 31 tidbits about Lake Tahoe News month. LTN tidbit No. 18: A recent addition to Lake Tahoe News is the weekly column by Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care. Usually Cheryl Millham, executive director of the South Shore nonprofit that rehabilitates wildlife so they can keep living in the wild, writes the articles. Occasionally, Tom […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sewer and water rates are going up July 1 for South Tahoe Public Utility District customers. On a 3-2 vote, the board agreed to raise sewer rates 5 percent and water rates 2 percent. Board members Chris Cefalu and Randy Vogelgesang voted against the rate increase. Cefalu has said all along he […]
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By Mandy Kendall Sugarcaine. I have not spelled it wrong. Scientists are now starting to call sugar “legal cocaine” as studies are revealing that sugar can potentially be as dangerous as the class A drug. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 3 children born in 2000 will become diabetic. The […]
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