South Lake Tahoe Optimist Club’s semi-annual pancake breakfast is Oct. 1 at the senior center. Breakfast will be served from 8:30-11:30am. The $5 tickets are available from various youth clubs raising money or can be purchased at the event. All money is donated back to the youth of the community. Contact Sandy Herback for more […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee The start of waterfowl hunting on public lands in the Sacramento Valley has been delayed by a week because of the lingering effects of a wet winter. The state Department of Fish and Game announced that hunting on wildlife refuge lands will start Oct. 29, a week later than usual. […]
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Sierra Nevada College presents Great Basin Exteriors: A Photographic Survey, a free public exhibition of 30 photographs by three regional artists – Adam Jahiel, Daniel Cheek and Nolan Preece – which examines loss, change and abandonment in the American West. In this exhibit, the Great Basin is roughly defined as the area between the Wasatch […]
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Enrollment increases are exactly where Lake Tahoe Unified wants them – at the elementary level. While the official tally for the state is not taken until October, officials are reporting 88 more students than last school year. The bulk of that growth is in kindergarten and first grade. “That feeds the system,” is how Superintendent […]
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By Francesca Lyman, Sacramento Bee It’s a warm sunny day in early August and wildlife biologist Eric Forsman heads up to the Willamette National Forest in Oregon’s Cascades mountains to climb trees. In this land of 200-foot Douglas firs, Forsman will hoist himself up in a harness to check the nests of red tree-voles, a […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will begin fuels reduction and forest health thinning work near two East Shore beaches the week of Sept. 26. The project areas are located on National Forest lands on approximately 15 acres near the Chimney Beach parking lot and 18 acres near Secret Harbor Beach on […]
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To the community, Bread & Broth would like to again thank Heavenly Mountain Resort for the continued support in our Adopt-A-Day of Nourishment Program. Volunteers from Heavenly help Bread & Broth volunteers serve those in need a well balanced nutritious meal. The team at Heavenly has been very generous in their efforts all year to […]
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By Kathryn Reed MARKLEEVILLE – Hiking into Thornburg Canyon I kept wondering why it had taken me so long to even know this area about an hour from South Lake Tahoe even exists. Thank goodness for the recommendation from the Grover Hot Springs State Park employee that we explore this gorgeous area with its expansive […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Sept. 21, 2011, Reno Gazette-Journal. If federal prosecutors are right, poker players who looked to the Internet hoping to make some easy money were taking a bigger gamble than they thought. There have been lots of stories of cheaters working in boiler rooms to beat too-trusting players. When […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal 4:42pm update: Street Vibrations events in Sparks tonight are canceled in the wake of Friday’s night’s shooting in John Ascuaga’s Nugget and a retaliatory shooting this morning nearby, Sparks Mayor Geno Martini said. “We’re canceling it in Sparks,” Martini said. “After the retaliation it’s just too tense of a situation. It’s hard […]
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