By Jennifer Eddy MEYERS – Party-goers watched in terror as pill popping alcoholic confessional poet Anne Sexton scanned the crowd for Valium, and Bertha Rochester contemplated which part of the venue was the most flammable. That’s what happens when the ghosts of literature come out to play Halloween weekend. The 2nd annual Scary Slam emceed […]
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The Tahoe City PUD and Recreation Department’s annual Holiday Craft Bazaar is Nov. 5 from 10am-3pm inside the Rideout Community Center, 740 Timberland Lane, Tahoe City. The event will feature a variety of artists and craftsmen from around the Lake Tahoe Basin selling fine handmade products. Included will be fine jewelry, photography, handmade wood products, […]
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Barton Memorial Hospital Auxiliary’s Holiday Fair is Nov. 6 from 9am-3pm at St. Theresa’s Grace Hall, South Lake Tahoe. The Attic is selling its finest “treasurers” that have been collected throughout the year. Clothes, books, linens, purses, toys, glassware, silver, dishware, jewelry and Christmas items will be available. Santa will visit from 10:30am-1pm. Food and […]
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By David McGrath-Schwartz, Las Vegas Sun A quarter of Nevadans under 65 did not have health insurance at some point in 2009, making the Silver State the third most uninsured state per capita in the United States, according to U.S. Census data released this month. Nevada’s low rate of insured, which is not a surprise […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee Fast food alone cannot be blamed for high obesity rates among people with low incomes, according to a new UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research study. The research calls into question stereotypes that have led some cities in Southern California to cite obesity when passing laws limiting or […]
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A 3.8 earthquake rocked just about the same area where a 4.8 temblor struck last week. The 6:25am shaker Sunday was about nine miles south-southeast of Whitehawk — the same epicenter as four days ago. People around Lake Tahoe felt it. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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To help the Lake Tahoe community stay healthy this season, Barton Health is providing free seasonal flu vaccines to children ages 3 to 18 who reside in South Lake Tahoe. The shots will be given Nov. 5 from 9am-1pm at Barton Family Medicine (1090 Third Street, South Lake Tahoe). Anyone 19 and older may receive […]
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By Kara Rose, USA Today The editors of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary decided to remove the term “cassette tape” from its pages this summer to help make room for 400 new words including “cyberbullying” and “retweet.” Jesse Sheidlower the editor-at-large for the dictionary, said the term was considered “so past its prime that it […]
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By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post For the clueless or cynical diehards who deny global warming, it’s getting awfully cold out there. The latest icy blast of reality comes from an eminent scientist whom the climate-change skeptics once lauded as one of their own. Richard Muller, a respected physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, used […]
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By Kathryn Reed While it’s fall at lake level, the top of Heavenly Mountain Resort is covered with white stuff. Snowmaking usually begins Nov. 1, but with the overnight temps well below freezing last week, the guns were fired up Tuesday night. All that snow will bode well for the anticipated opening day of Nov. […]
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