By Kathryn Reed It was getting to the point that the store looked more used than the items on the shelves. Fourteen years after the Attic Thrift Store moved to its Lodi Avenue location, it finally got a thorough spring-cleaning. It was so intense the shop was closed for six weeks before reopening last month. […]
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By Janice Lloyd, USA Today Apples are at the top of the list of produce most contaminated with pesticides in a report published today by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a public health advocacy group. Its seventh annual report analyzed government data on 53 fruits and vegetables, identifying which have the most and least pesticides […]
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North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District IAFF Local No. 2139 Incline Village and Crystal Bay firefighters are putting on the 2nd annual Firefighters’ Poker Pedal June 25. Event registration begins at 1pm at Great Basin Brewery, 5525 South Virginia St., Reno. The event raises funds for Northern Nevada Children’s Cancer Foundation. The ride starts at […]
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Aries is a sweet young Husky-shepherd mix who is too smart for his own good. He can climb fences — the last time he did that, he ended up at the shelter and then his owner moved away and left him. He is friendly and playful with all people and dogs, and walks nicely on […]
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Celebrate Snowshoe Thompson with folk products displayed by the Sons and Daughters of Norway, Norwegian dancers, Norwegian fjord horses with a cart and a Chautauqua presentation of Snowshoe Thompson, the man who carried the mail in the late 1800s from Genoa to Placerville twice a month for 20 years. The June 19 2-5pm event is […]
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Nevada State Parks invites the public to a weekend of free historic events at Mormon Station State Historic Park in Genoa. June 18 is Pioneer Living History Day with the Sierra Nevada and Truckee Meadows Mormon Pioneers from 10am-4pm. Learn how to make rope and corn-husk dolls, watch Dutch-oven cooking demonstrations, have children play pioneer […]
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The second bear this year has been killed in Douglas County, according to Nevada Division of Wildlife officials. Carl Lackey, biologist with the state agency, said the bear was put down Friday near Holbrook in southern Douglas County because people had been feeding it, which led the bear to break into homes to obtain people […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal A conservation group that last year purchased the land around a scenic Sierra lake developed a recreation strategy designed to allow for limited boating while protecting the lake from aquatic invaders. The plan for Independence Lake, released Thursday, is seen as a compromise after critics decried last summer’s closure of […]
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Despite all the warnings about how high rivers are in Northern Nevada and Northern California, not everyone is paying attention. South Shore residents on Sunday saw two trucks stuck midstream in the Carson River. The river is flowing at about 3,000 cubic feet per second right now. The height of the run-off is not expected […]
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Jen Gurecki and Julie Lowe of the Dolphin Project, an organization that is determined to stop the violence against women in Kenya, will speak the June 16 7:30am Soroptimist International of Tahoe Sierra meeting. All are welcome at the breakfast meeting. The meeting is at the South Lake Tahoe Senior Center. For information, call (530) […]
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