By Daniela Hernandez, Los Angeles Times Soy tablets do little to stave off bone loss among menopausal women, according to new research. Women taking soy supplements also reported more hot flashes and constipation. After the landmark Women’s Health Initiative showed that hormone replacement therapy carried health risks, many women gravitated toward soy products as a […]
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Everything Spanish was the rule of the day this month at Lake Tahoe Community College with 527 students attending the college’s 18th Intensive Spanish Summer Institute. Approximately 470 of those students came from outside the Lake Tahoe Basin. With them came an influx of more than $60,000 for local merchants, hotel owners, restaurants and more, […]
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By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee The state Assembly and Senate released current member-by-member spending records Friday, less than one month after the lower house denied public access to the data. The action is a concession that taxpayers have a right to see up-to-date breakdowns of how funds have been spent through July, rather than year-old […]
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By Debra Black, TheStar.com Producers from the Oprah Winfrey Network will be providing a top notch locksmith to help crack open a safe that may have belonged to a Stateline casino owner who was killed by a car bomb in 1968. The television network, producers and the locksmith are flying in Tuesday to see if […]
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• Edgewood is the only Lake Tahoe restaurant on OpenTable Diners’ list of Most Scenic Restaurants in the United States. • Great Tahoe Flume Race-Sierra Cup No. 6 is Sept. 10. All proceeds from this event support the bike patrol, which has grown significantly this year to one of IMBA’s largest National Mountain Bike Patrol […]
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By Kathryn Reed Nearly 300 people were treated to a sneak preview to what the theater at South Tahoe High School is all about. Almost everyone on stage commented on the lights – how many more there are and the brightness making it impossible to see the crowd – some of whom had to stand. […]
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Volunteers are needed to help with a MTB designed and built trail on Sept. 2 in Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park. The Marlette Hobart link trail will be three miles of flowy singletrack from the Tahoe Rim Trail to the bottom of Sunflower Hill. It’s more than halfway done. The completed upper section will be […]
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By David Hansen I had the privilege of hosting, as well as speaking at the West Coast Green Lodging Conference this week at the Embassy Suites Lake Tahoe. This was the second annual conference here on the South Shore and I must say it was very inspirational to hear leaders in the industry speak about […]
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By Kathryn Reed While employees keep dropping off the payroll in South Lake Tahoe, and even more layoff notices are expected next month, the finance department has for the most part remained fully staffed. In fact, while other departments are asked to do more with fewer employees, this department hires temporary workers. This is at […]
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By Rich Cimini, ESPN FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — South Lake Tahoe High grad Garrett McIntyre, 26, is still clinging to his NFL dream even though he has been tossed by three teams. In between tryouts, he has worked in construction, pouring cement foundations — and “that really sucked,” he said. Josh Baker is a well-traveled […]
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