The Heavenly Ski & Snowboard Foundation’s 11th annual Grapes & Gates gourmet food and wine tasting event is May 2 from 6-9pm at Edgewood Tahoe in Stateline. The evenings highlight will be the award presentation. The foundation will present the inaugural Bill Killebrew Award. Killebrew has been an integral part of creating opportunities for youth […]
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Tahoe Sierra Kiwanis Club presented three South Lake Tahoe residents with awards based on their efforts to enrich the community. Wendy David received the Community Service Award for “her continued efforts of providing essentials to families in crisis through Tahoe Magic”. The group presented a Community Service Award to David Kelly for his continued dedication […]
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Bike friendly wasn’t the phrase that came to mind while riding the South Lake Tahoe bike trail (on Earth Day of all days) that goes behind Meeks Lumber, by the Upper Truckee Marsh, through neighborhoods and farther west paralleling Highway 50. Definitely take a mountain bike. The cracks are so wide it is like riding […]
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Jacob is one of several beautiful black cats at the shelter. Black cats often stay at shelters longer than lighter-colored cats, through no fault of their own. Jacob is about 5 years old, and has been at the shelter since January. He is a friendly and affectionate cat, and would do well in just about […]
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• Lake Tahoe Unified School District trustees will not be meeting this week. Instead they will have three meetings next month – May 1, May 8 and May 22. • Tahoe City and Truckee are collecting unused prescription drugs April 28 from 9am-noon. For more information, click on the flyer. • This is the El Dorado-Tahoe […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee Placerville-based El Dorado Savings Bank saw a nearly 4 percent year-over-year increase in first quarter net income. The bank, which operates 32 branches in Northern California, including South Lake Tahoe, reported a profit of more than $2.1 million for the quarter ended March 31, up from about $2 million in […]
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Publisher’s note: On April 17 at the recommendation of Supervisors Ray Nutting and Ron Briggs, the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors adopted the following public statement regarding the case of Center for Sierra Nevada Conservation v. U.S. Forest Service (E.D. Cal No. S-09-2523). El Dorado County is dismayed to learn that the plaintiffs in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Gliding along the perfectly groomed trails at Spooner Lake is no longer an option – and not because the seasons at Lake Tahoe are changing. For 27 years, Max Jones has run the cross country ski center as concessionaire for the Nevada Division of State Parks. And for a dozen years he […]
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Capital City Farm Days is May 10-11 at Fuji Park Exhibit Hall and Carson City Fairgrounds. The event organized by University of Nevada Cooperative Extension runs from 8:30am-2pm each day and includes up to 32 presenters providing information and demonstrations on ranching- and farming-related activities in Nevada. The event typically draws from 500 to 1,200 […]
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By KCRA-TV UNION VALLEY — Deputies are investigating a reservoir shooting in El Dorado County on Saturday. El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies said they received a 911 cellular telephone call at about 8:10pm from a camper in the Union Valley Reservoir area reporting another person had been shot. Deputies said the location where the shooting […]
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