By Kathryn Reed Across the room the trumpets echoed “Taps” – the distinctive military call also known as Last Post. Lauren Tang was on one side of the South Tahoe Middle School auditorium, Christina DeLallo on the other. Their duet of sorts visibly moved the nearly 500 people who turned out Thursday for the fourth […]
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“Distracted” opens this weekend at Lake Tahoe Community College’s Duke Theatre. It’s billed as a hilarious, provocative, and poignant look at a modern family and an epidemic dilemma: Are we so tuned into our 24/7 info-rich world that we’ve tuned out what really matters? What’s wrong with 9-year-old Jesse? He can’t sit still, he curses, […]
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Winners of the River-Friendly Landscaping Program are Susie Urie, Steve Ramos and Eric Premack. They each won a $5,000 rebate and Donner Pines East won a $10,000 rebate for completed river-friendly landscaping soil erosion measures. The river-friendly landscaping began in September with the objective to restore residential properties with significant erosion problems near rivers and […]
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Tahoe City Parks and Recreation Department’s inaugural Breakfast with Santa at Rideout Community Center is Dec. 3 from 8:30-10:30am. This family event is co-sponsored by the Tahoe City Rotary Club. The event includes a pancake breakfast, photo opportunities, letters to Santa, ornament decorating, and of course, Santa. The event is $9 for children and $5 […]
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The Lake Tahoe Aquatic Invasive Species Coordination Committee will host a free public forum on Nov. 16 from 5:30 to 7:30pm at the North Tahoe Events Center in Kings Beach. Brief presentations will feature aquatic invasive species prevention, control and monitoring projects in the Lake Tahoe Basin and Truckee area. The evening will begin with […]
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Tahoe Youth & Family Services received two grants from the Administration for Children and Families to support expanding services in Alpine County. In October, TYFS began offering a 24-hour crisis line, shelter through host homes, counseling and case management services and outreach to Alpine County residents. These grants allow TYFS to expand its program of […]
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By KCRA-TV TRUCKEE — The streak stands at 34 — as in, the Truckee Wolverines football team has won 34 straight games. The last time the Wolverines lost was in the 2008 state title game. “It’s pretty special,” Truckee senior running back Cole Roberts said. “We want to keep it going and keep the history […]
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Publisher’s note: Four students from South Tahoe High School were honored as Young Women of Distinction on Nov. 9 by Soroptimist International South Lake Tahoe. Different this year was the maturity shown by all the honorees and the eloquence of their thank yous to the service club, their school and their families. The following is […]
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Barton Foundation and Barton Health’s Community Advisory Committee gave $25,000 to 10 South Lake Tahoe organizations to help fund health-related services and programs. The recipients were honored at Barton’s third annual Philanthropy Day lunch Nov. 4 at Riva Grill. The programs awarded addressed some of the area’s most pressing health needs such as nutrition, physical […]
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By Jennifer Fearing The controversy swirling around one Placer County bear family is, sadly, nothing new to the many communities that are seeing a resurgence in black bear populations. Like so many other wildlife species, bear populations are experiencing a slow crawl back to normal after being decimated by human exploitation. Part of that return […]
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