Helping neighbors with snow removal. It might seem just like the neighborly thing to do, but one neighbor thinks Celine Smania should know how appreciated she is. Celine is Lake Tahoe News’ latest Random Acts of Kindness winner. She will be receiving a gift certificate to dine at Echo Restaurant at Embassy Suites. Random Acts […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 12, 2012, Orange County Register. The last thing California needs now is more state bonds, with the interest and principal paid from the general fund. The state already can’t pay its current bills, including debt service on past bonds. There are signs the Legislature might dump from […]
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By Kathryn Reed While it’s up to the recreation JPA board to decide how to spend the $15,000 that is estimated to be saved each year by refinancing the bonds, it is likely to go toward recreation on the South Shore instead of saving taxpayers a few cents on the $18 a year they pay […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal 10:13pm: Southbound Highway 395 is open at Mount Rose Highway. Northbound Highway 395 to reopen later tonight, Nevada Highway Patrol reports. 8:15pm (summary story) The Washoe Drive Fire that destroyed 29 homes and charred 3,177 acres south of Reno started Thursday afternoon because a man improperly discarded hot fireplace ashes on the […]
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California State Park interpretive specialist Lindsay Harbison will be leading a snowshoe through history hike along Lake Tahoe’s West Shore at Ed Z’Berg Sugar Pine Point State Park on Jan. 28. This easy tour explores the parks’ lakefront and the grounds of the historic Hellman-Ehrman estate. Learn about the natural environment that attracted Tahoe’s earliest […]
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By Kris Terrian What sounds better after a long powder day: icing your knees or hopping in the hot tub? The majority of skiers and snowboarders would prefer the hot tub. And though this sounds like the perfect place to get warm, meet up with your buds and kick back and relax, the hot water […]
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Dianna Borges, South Shore speaker-actor, presents a re-enactment of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Paiute Native American, on Jan. 25 at 6pm. Hear Sarah’s story at Explore Tahoe: An Urban Trailhead located at 4114 Lake Tahoe Blvd. near the Heavenly Village. A $5 donation is requested. A $5 flat rate offered in the Heavenly Village Parking […]
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Jake’s on the Lake and Michael David Winery are teaming up for a four-course wine paring at the Tahoe City restaurant on Jan. 26 at 5:30pm. The cost is $38 per person. Space is limited, guaranteed reservations are required — (530) 583.0188. Jake’s on the Lake is located at 780 North Lake Blvd., Boatworks Mall, […]
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Douglas County Public Library in Minden and Zephyr Cove will be closed on Jan. 25 and Jan. 26 due to budgetary constraints. The Minden library will re-open Jan. 27 at 10am. The Zephyr Cove library will re-open Jan. 27 at 9am. For more information, call (775) 782.9841.
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By Thomas Sowell The news that Eastman Kodak is preparing to file for bankruptcy, after being the leading photographic company in the world for more than a hundred years, truly marks the end of an era. The skills required to use the cameras and chemicals required by the photography of the mid-19th century were far […]
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