By Keri Oberly, McClatchy Newspapers National Park Service sites will be open for free Saturday through Monday to mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. They are just the first of several days this year when admission fees will be waived. Fees vary at various National Park Service sites. For example, the fee for Yosemite […]
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Enrollment at all four elementary schools in Lake Tahoe Unified School District is up from 2010, indicating declining enrollment is stabilizing. Overall enrollment is down by 20 students – the smallest drop since the decline started in 1996-97. Free and reduced lunch counts are up from 59.4 percent in 2010-11 to 62.5 percent this school […]
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To events in February are geared toward educators — in the formal or informal sense — who are interested in science education, environmental education or are seeking new activities. A completely revised, updated, and expanded Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide was released last fall. This major revision of the 15-year-old original guide began three […]
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By Marek Warszawski, Fresno Bee SIERRA NATIONAL FOREST — Two orphaned bear cubs returned home to the mountains east of Fresno on Tuesday, nearly five months after a poacher killed their mother. Campers found the two California black bear cubs Aug. 21 near the High Sierra Ranger Station on Kaiser Pass Road crying and suckling […]
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On Jan. 14, the Truckee-Tahoe Chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association is hosting its monthly pancake breakfast and Young Eagles Flights. Kids 8-17 who attend with their parents can fly for free out of Truckee Tahoe Airport. Breakfast starts at 8:30am. Flight departures continue until 10:30am, weather permitting.
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal The winter that didn’t come may be on its way. Hopefully, anyway. After a record-making spate of sunny, dry weather kept conditions bone dry through December and half of January, a pattern change in the Pacific could be sending wet weather on its way. It’s still a ways off — […]
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By Mandy Kendall So, it’s another New Year. A lot of us will make resolutions, and a lot of us will break them. Maybe it’s because we make such high demands on ourselves when there is already so much going on that we get overwhelmed. During my time as a chiropractor in England I learned […]
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By Kathryn Reed How much is the more than 11-acre site on the east end of South Lake Tahoe worth with its rebar and concrete? That is one issue still to be decided in the ongoing saga known as the failed convention center project. Lake Tahoe Development Company, the Zephyr Cove company that was supposed […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Lake Tahoe tourism agencies are doing their financial part to help bring the 2022 Winter Olympics to the region. On Jan. 12 the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority allocated $25,000 to the bid effort, with the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association having already committed the same amount. Each will be asked […]
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• January is national Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month and most resorts in the Lake Tahoe area have deals. • Lake Tahoe Community College’s board of education packet is not available online. Meetings are usually the second and fourth Tuesdays at 6pm. • The Tahoe Maritime Museum in Homewood is open to Tahoe locals […]
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