Ski report: May be nasty up top
Snow. Does more really need to be said? Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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Scattered school closures; brunt of storm still to come
Douglas County School District decided not to take any chances today with chains and snow tires required on Kingsbury Grade. Schools at the lake are closed. Most highways in and around the Lake Tahoe Basin have some sort of controls. All schools are also closed in the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District. The National Weather […]
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Lake Tahoe News has a variety of advertising options for all sizes of businesses. Rates are reasonable and affordable. The longer you sign up for, the less expensive it is. Everyone has a limited number of advertising dollars. That’s why it is important to spend them wisely and effectively. Look at where you are putting […]
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LTUSD makes administrative changes
Lake Tahoe Unified School District board of trustees shuffled administrative positions Tuesday night. With the retirement of Human Resources Director Jim Watson at the end of the school year, it means starting this summer Superintendent Jim Tarwater will be in the district office full time. The district office is also losing the staff development position. […]
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U.S. wine consumption passes France’s
By Ryan Flinn, Bloomberg News The United States passed France as the world’s largest wine-consuming nation for the first time, lifted by its larger population and an interest in wine-and-cheese culture among young Americans. Wine shipments to the United States climbed 2 percent to 329.7 million cases last year, according to Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates, […]
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Hwy. 50 bike trail in S. Tahoe moves forward
By Kathryn Reed It took a bit of arm-twisting, but South Lake Tahoe Councilman Tom Davis finally acquiesced to colleagues’ desires to go forward with the bike trail from El Dorado Beach to Ski Run Boulevard. “I’m frustrated with the process and amount of money,” Davis said at last week’s council meeting. The issue has […]
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Exercise to train crews to fight wildland fire on Hwy. 50
If you notice a large number of public safety units on Spooner Summit on Friday, don’t be alarmed – it’s a drill. The planned scenario will simulate that a small brush fire has started alongside Highway 50, approximately halfway up the grade to Spooner Summit from the Carson City side. It will be simulated that […]
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Green building doesn’t have to be expensive
By Jason Hildago, Reno Gazette-Journal Going old vs. going new. That’s apparently the key question when tackling a renewable building project. Once associated mostly with free-spirited hippies and tree-hugging nature lovers, going green has made serious gains within the general public’s consciousness in just the past few years. “The perception of green building used to […]
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Opinion: Time to end term limits
By Quentin L. Kopp In 1990 as a state senator, I supported the concept of term limits because of the foul effects of gerrymandering, and my belief in the notion of citizen legislators – not politicians per se, but people who volunteer for electoral public service as an ideal, not an occupation. I also maintained […]
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Pro athletes express climate change concerns to students
By Stephen Ward RENO — Carbon emissions and global warming are not concepts easily conveyed to teenagers. Telling them what it might mean to their ability to ski in Tahoe in the future made it real. “It wasn’t a boring way of learning,” student Tyler Groves said. The nonprofit Alliance for Climate Education is on […]
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