• North Lake Tahoe Water Shuttle starts up June 21. Here is more info. • Tahoe Cross Country has hired Wilson Dippo as the junior development and competition team head coach. • Dollar Tree, which will be opening in Zephyr Cove, is looking for employees. • Bri Biller is running the Pearl Izumi shop in […]
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By Henry C. Jackson, AP WASHINGTON — House and Senate negotiators on Thursday unveiled a compromise bill that authorizes billions of dollars for water projects over the next decade, from flood protections in California to deepening Georgia’s rapidly growing Port of Savannah. Lawmakers released details of the Water Resources Reform and Development act a week […]
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A number of Tahoe area residents will graduate today from UNR. In all, the university will confer 2,251 degrees and certificates. There will be three ceremonies, one for advanced-degree recipients this afternoon, and two for bachelor-degree recipients the mornings of May 16 and May 17. All three ceremonies will be on the university’s Quadrangle, located […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College’s Art Department’s annual Student Art Exhibition, showcasing up-and-coming South Lake Tahoe artists who have enrolled in art classes during the last academic year, is May 18-June 14. The opening reception is May 18 from 2-5pm with music, refreshments, and the awards ceremony at 3:30pm in the main building on campus. Megan […]
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By Kathryn Reed If the number of people who showed up at a meeting this week about South Lake Tahoe’s plastic bag ban is an indication of it how it is working, it’s working well. Four members of the public attended the May 14 meeting to talk about what is working and what isn’t. Mayor […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee The state budget is largely financed by personal income taxes, and thanks to an improving economy and a temporary tax increase approved by voters two years ago, it is enjoying surpluses after years of deficits. Indeed, the big conflict in the Capitol this year is over competing priorities for billions […]
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To the community, Bueno Kettlesen 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 Kettlesen and the cooks at Bert’s for helping to make this fundraiser a success. The spaghetti was delicious. […]
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The U.S. Forest Service this week started thinning trees for fuels reduction and forest health near South Tahoe High School and the Sand Pit OHV area in South Lake Tahoe. The Forest Service has closed the areas in units 19 and 117 from 7am-6pm daily through Oct. 14 for public safety due to heavy equipment […]
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By John Ewoldt, Minneapolis Star Tribune The days of the “buy-10-get-one-free” loyalty punch card are as numbered as the paper punch itself. Mom-and-pop restaurants, convenience stores and pet groomers are joining national programs that equip them with an iPad at the register where a customer either swipes a loyalty card or waves a smartphone to […]
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By Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times The more physically active you are at age 25, the better your thinking tends to be when you reach middle age, according to a large-scale study. Encouragingly, the findings also suggest that if you negligently neglected to exercise when young, you can start now and still improve the health […]
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