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3-car crash ties up traffic on Highway 50 in S. Tahoe

A three-car accident in South Lake Tahoe on Tuesday afternoon that included one vehicle being flipped on its side resulted in no injuries and one arrest. Traffic was backed up for a bit as officers cleared the scene, which included sweeping up lots of glass. Sharon Nolanmaloff, 53, of El Dorado Hills was arrested on […]

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Estate planning seminar

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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South Lake Tahoe woman mysteriously disappears

A 23-year-old South Lake Tahoe woman has been missing since she went on break from work Tuesday morning. Michaela Vandenberg, is white, with brown hair, 5-foot-7, 140 pounds. Vandenberg was last seen at work in the area of Takela Drive and 3300 block of Lake Tahoe Boulevard. She was wearing black pants, blue shirt, black […]

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Study: Sweeping changes needed to deal with U.S. obesity problem

By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times They sifted through about 800 programs to prevent and fight obesity–to find the ones most likely to counter the nation’s growing girth. In the end, a panel of independent experts asserted that only by implementing many of those initiatives at once can the nation make real progress. Reversing the […]

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Nevada may be losing tourist dollars with anti-gay marriage law

By Mark Robison, Reno Gazette-Journal Actions by Nevada voters in 2000 and 2002 are costing the state tourism dollars now and may for decades to come. The state’s constitutional ban on marriage by same-sex couples may also cost Nevada its reputation as the marriage capital of the world. It’s possible that Nevada’s voters find same-sex […]

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Tahoe not among the top bike friendly locations

By Jayne Clark, USA Today Missoula, Mont., and Durango, Colo., are the latest towns to make “gold” status in the League of American Bicyclists Bicycle Friendly Communities rankings. The group’s annual list comes out today as a kick-off to National Bike to Work Week. The program annually awards towns and cities with gold, silver or […]

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Tahoe chambers to take road trip to see why other areas function better

Tourism, transportation and the environment will be among the topics explored during the Pathways to Prosperity Trek being organized by Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce in partnership with North Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce and the Tahoe Prosperity Center. Basin business and civic leaders will travel by bus to Monterey Bay, Livermore and […]

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S. Tahoe library sets summer reading dates

The South Lake Tahoe branch library is beginning the Summer Reading Club with a kick-off party on June 22 at 2pm that will featuring game, crafts and book give-aways. Summer events at he library include” Gboze — June 29 at 2pm, traditional West African dancing and drumming. Bohart Museum of Entymology — July 6 at […]

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LTN tidbit 15: Breaking news — it’s what we do

May is 31 tidbits about Lake Tahoe News month. LTN tidbit No. 15: We like to say: If you aren’t reading Lake Tahoe News, you don’t know Lake Tahoe. We say this because we have broken a number of stories in the past couple years. And some stories we have written have only been on […]

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Opinion: O’Rourke leaving is a good thing for S. Tahoe

To the community, The recent announcement of City Manager Tony O’Rourke’s leaving can only be viewed as a positive direction for the city of South Lake Tahoe. In May 2011, we informed the city of an approximately $500,000 a year loss in transient occupancy tax collections. We spent five to six months working with the […]

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