By Jeremy Miller I felt I was due for a nice horror flick and caught 20 seconds of the trailer for “Oculus” and said why not? Come to find out, Mike Flanagan (writer/director) remade his own flick of similar name with a bigger budget and this was the result. That alone generates my affinity for […]
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Michael Brooks Seeliger of Reno died April 13 while enjoying one of his many passions in life — flying. He was 46. Mike is the grandson of Brooks Park, the late patriarch of the Carson Valley cattle ranch family that also owns acreage in Stateline, including Edgewood Tahoe, the former Horizon hotel and MontBleu. He […]
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• The Yardbirds will be at Harrah’s South Shore Room on June 20 at 8pm. Tickets are $44. • The next Republican Women meeting is April 22 at 5:30pm at 3330 Sandy Way, South Lake Tahoe. The speaker will be El Dorado County supervisor candidate Gerri Grego. There will also be a presentation on the […]
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By Bill Pennington, New York Times GREENSBORO, Ga. — Golf holes the size of pizzas. Soccer balls on the back nine. A mulligan on every hole. These are some of the measures — some would say gimmicks — that golf courses across the country have experimented with to stop people from quitting the game. Golf […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College needs to find ways to make money. Offering four-year degrees is one way to do so. The University of California and California State University systems need to find ways to accommodate more students. Allowing community colleges to offer four-year degrees would do that. Today the state is not […]
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Buddley is a chocolate Lab mix, really a puppy at 14 months old. He’s had good training that just needs to be reinforced. Je knows sit, down, stay, and he’ll give you each of his paws. He takes treats very gently. He has lived with children, cats, and other dogs, and ended up at the […]
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To the community, Did you know Placer County cut a deal in December 2013 with State Parks and their partner California Tahoe Conservancy to utilize 40 percent of the Kings Beach State Recreation Area Parking for more than two years to house/stage construction equipment for Kings Beach Core Improvement Plan project? Most of us didn’t […]
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By Russ Parsons, Los Angeles Times Strawberries used to be a springtime treat, available for only a few months and treasured. But because we love strawberries so much, growers have turned them into a year-round staple, the parsley of the breakfast plate. Still, at this time of year there is a calling, and if you […]
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The El Dorado County District 5 supervisor candidates will face off May 6 from 5:30-7:30pm. The forum is sponsored by Tahoe Regional Young Professionals and Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce. The event is at the CCC office in Meyers, 1949 Apache Ave.
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By Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — Soon after Jerry Brown was elected governor in 2010, he invited the state’s top budget official, Ana Matosantos, to lunch at his office. He had just two months to prepare his first plan for tackling California’s $26 billion deficit. He asked his assistant to fetch the budget […]
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