By Kathryn Reed Even though it didn’t seem like winter in Lake Tahoe until a few days ago, that was not stopping me from making soup. But something about the snow falling on Monday made it even more appealing to create something hot to eat. It was easy to forget about work as the aromas […]
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Cardiologist David Young is Barton Health’s latest addition to the South Shore medical team. Barton Cardiology is one of the latest investments for Barton after bringing in a new sports medicine director from the Mayo Clinic, an audiology expert and expanding patient services. While the primary focus is addressing current cardiac patients, Barton would like […]
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By Anne Knowles CARSON CITY – Northern Nevada is looking at sports and recreation from every angle to boost its economy. The bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Reno Bighorns minor league basketball team, the UNR Wolf Pack athletic program, even makers of outdoor gear, all figure into plans to capitalize on sports. Nevada […]
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By Shelley Giannotta First lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released the new standards for school meals Jan. 25. While I support and encourage ongoing changes and improvements to school meals, I am disappointed to read what Obama had to say. It is unfortunately a generic statement that put all school meals in […]
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A Carson City man has been charged with seven counts of armed robbery, with two of the bank robberies occurring in Lake Tahoe. Authorities say the fedora-wearing bank robber who struck Bank of the West in South Lake Tahoe on Feb. 18, 2010, is David Griffith Osborne. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento on Feb. […]
Read moreThe California Transportation Commission on Wednesday allocated $347 million in new funding to 47 projects designed to provide congestion relief for motorists statewide, with one of them being in South Lake Tahoe. The state Highway Operation and Protection Program will allocate $3.7 million to construct water quality collection and treatment facilities west of Ski Run […]
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Adopt a pit bull or pit bull mixed dog from Placer County Animal Services in Tahoe Vista and get a prize. Every pit bull or pit bull mix at PCAS is being sponsored by A New Hope rescue with a $50 grant toward the completion of an approved training class, the purchase of a wire […]
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Aaron Katz, the Lake Tahoe attorney who has sued the Incline Village General Improvement District and repeatedly criticized the district, will be the guest at the next Fireside Chat on Feb. 2 in Sierra Nevada College’s Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences room 139/141. The chat — hosted by Incline Village resident Andy Whyman — is […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY — A panel of lawmakers on Tuesday began a review of the state’s 45-year-old formula for funding public education with an eye toward addressing the needs of the state’s urban districts as they work to educate special education students, English-language learners and children in poverty. The panel […]
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By Tom McClintock Long ago, Jefferson warned, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” The exceptions to that rule have been few and far between recently, and ought to be celebrated when they occur. One did this past week with the announcement that supporters of the so-called […]
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