By Marsha Mercer, AARP Bulletin Despite signs the economy is brightening, state governments face a fourth straight year of financial crisis. To balance their budgets over the past three years, officials have cut programs that help their most vulnerable residents, including older people and the disabled. They’ve hiked university tuitions and sliced K-12 school spending. […]
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By Kathryn Reed BEIJING – “Don’t yell protest.” That was my niece’s sage advice as we walked along Tiananmen Square. As the largest public square in the world, this mass of concrete in itself is not so impressive. Its history, of course, is what makes it seem like something more than it is. Police officers […]
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Echo Summit is open. This section of Highway 50 that connects the South Shore to points west will be open on weekends and subject to controlled traffic during the week. Motorists can expect 20-minute delays while work continues for up to six week. There will be no traffic restrictions on weekends including over the Memorial […]
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Douglas County School District is having two meetings to find out what the community would like to see Kingsbury Middle School turned into. The Stateline school closed a few years ago because of declining enrollment. It has sat empty since then. The first meeting is May 26 at 6:30pm at Whittell High School, Room 3. […]
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By Agatha Wasilewska, Transworld Business Resorts and their marketers dream of big dumps and lots of them to befall their mountains; the press is fabulous and it brings the crowds out in droves and makes for fantastic photo opps. This year the ski areas around Lake Tahoe must have been praying extra hard because they […]
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• South Tahoe Public Utility District has a rebate plan for commercial customers. Call (530) 543.6268 for a free commercial water-use review. Rates for sewer customers are going up 3 percent July 1. • Leadership Lake Tahoe is looking for participants. Applications are due June 17. For more information, call (775) 588.1728. • Barton Hospice […]
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The Tahoe Show, a National Physique Committee-sanctioned amateur bodybuilding, figure, bikini and fitness championship, is Aug. 27 at MontBleu in Stateline. Promoters of the Tahoe Show are offering a number features that are outside the norm. From the website, competitor may register to compete, as well as purchase show photos, tanning, event DVD, hair and […]
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Suzanne Roberts’ book launch party for “Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel” is June 17 at 6:30pm. Also, being celebrated is the opening of the photography show “Faces,” featuring some of her travel photographs from around the world. The event at Bona Fide Books includes a short poetry reading, book signing, drinks, […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the May 14, 2011, Reno Gazette-Journal. The possible discovery of quagga mussels in two of Northern Nevada’s must important reservoirs is reason for considerable concern. The invasive mollusk has become Public Enemy No. 1 in waterways throughout the United States, including Lake Mead, where they were first found in […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — The Tahoe Transportation District needs to find about $50,000 in the next month or it won’t be able to approve a balanced budget. The board was given the sobering news at its meeting this month. Another component that could affect the district is the May revise to the California budget […]
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