What are the top environmental challenges for our region? Who is working to address these challenges? How can museums be involved? These are some of the questions to be posed on Oct. 14 by the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center to discuss how museums can inform their communities about environmental challenges and inspire action. […]
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Beginning next year, Americans will see acclaimed musicians, sports stars, writers, artists and other nationally-known figures on U.S. postage stamps — while they are still alive. The Postal Service is inviting the public to use social media to submit their ideas for individuals to honor. The Postal Service is dropping a rule that currently requires […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee Yosemite National Park has gotten all the attention for a spike in visitor deaths this year. But fatalities also are up on national forest lands throughout California, such as an expert kayaker who drowned in a remote creek near Sonora. Data provided by the U.S. Forest Service show there have […]
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By KOLO-TV The Buckeye Fire burning near Bridgeport in Mono County is 50 percent contained, with full containment expected Thursday. Smoke from that fire can be seen in the Truckee Meadows. Click here to find out more! Tuesday, fire crews are focusing on improving and holding containment lines, and they are starting to mop up […]
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By Claudia Buck, Sacramento Bee Brandon Gonzales has been carrying his black Pantech cell phone with the slide-out keyboard for two years. Brandon is 12. And he’s certainly not unusual. Over the last decade, the age of kids packing their first cell phone has been dialing back younger and younger. This month, as millions of […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee After dark, on a moonless Wednesday last week, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office received three 911 hang-up calls from within Desolation Wilderness, near Eagle Lake. Uncertain of exactly where the caller was, the Sheriff’s Office did what it has done many times before: It radioed Calstar 6 – the […]
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By Karoun Demirjian, Las Vegas Sun For months, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has blocked consideration of any free trade agreement until Congress first approves a federal program to help retrain U.S. workers whose jobs are outsourced. “I’ve told Sen. McConnell, I’ve told the president, I’ve told anyone who will listen. I told Speaker Boehner. […]
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By Kathryn Reed The owners of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows are forming a company that will own and operate the two legendary North Shore resorts. KSL Capital Partners bought the 1960 Olympic venue in November 2010, while JMA Ventures took over the neighboring resort in 2007. With the Tahoe-Reno area going after the 2022 […]
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By Kathryn Reed One advantage to a late harvest is being able to buy peaches in September. Normally those sweet nectars of summer are long gone from farmers’ markets by this time of year. Fortunately, I was able to buy about a dozen from the Perez Red Shack table at last week’s Tuesday market in […]
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Publisher’s note: This is reprinted with permission from the August 1976 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. Several months ago, our newsletter carried a report of Linda Mendizabal’s interview with Mrs. Meliba Vallet Meier, whose father was chef at Tallac House some 65 years ago and whose playmate at the time was Gladys Comstock. Since that […]
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