To the community, After a beautiful spring-like January, we’re excited to welcome Old Man Winter back this week with a bang. Overnight Tuesday we received 14 inches of snow on the upper mountain and it was still coming down hard (Wednesday). Through tonight, we are expecting 2 to 4 feet by Friday morning. Forecasters are […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee There might be no money for state parks, but money isn’t all they need. That is the basic message in a new study released Friday by California’s largest parks advocacy group. The “Vision for Excellence” report by the nonprofit California State Parks Foundation is an acknowledgment that no financial salvation […]
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By Kathryn Reed Puttanesca probably wasn’t on a vocabulary or spelling test when Klaire Pirtle was principal of Kingsbury Middle or Minden Elementary schools. That’s because the Italian dish is better known as “whore’s style spaghetti.” The retired Douglas County School District educator helped her daughter, Amber Asbjornsen, whip up a bowl of puttanesca worthy […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Alarmed by a police backlash against pot dispensaries in some California cities, lawmakers and advocates for medical marijuana are calling for statewide regulation of medical cannabis stores and new laws to clarify rules under which they operate. Additionally, some medical marijuana advocates are pushing lawmakers to consider regulations – similar […]
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By Ted Parkhill This past weekend the Tahoe Grizzlies Pee Wees (ages 11 and 12) played a double-header at home against the Cupertino Cougars. On Saturday the Grizzlies didn’t know their own strength and ended up with 26 minutes of penalties. Despite playing shorthanded for more than a third of the game, the Grizzlies dominated […]
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With falling and blowing snow throughout Northern Nevada earlier today, troopers from the Nevada Highway Patrol were kept busy by responding to several calls for service. In a six-hour time frame between 4-10am, 19 motor vehicle accidents were investigated, 17 slides-offs or spin-outs were reported and the Department of Public Safety-Communications Center fielded 298 phone […]
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The Heavenly Ski and Snowboard Foundation’s Shredtacular Rail Jam event at the American Legion in South Lake Tahoe is Feb. 18 from 4:30-10pm. Open to skiers and snowboarders of all ages, the Shredtacular will be on a feature built by Rob Giustina of On Course Events. Entry is $20 and includes a raffle ticket for […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee A Truckee man with a long criminal history, including manslaughter, has been sent to prison under the state’s “three-strikes” law. Douglas Harold Doyle, 51, whose past crimes including an alcohol-related vehicular manslaughter conviction in which a Tahoe City schoolteacher was killed, was sent to prison for 25 years to life, […]
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National Trails Day — with events all over the country. Click here for more information.
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Dragonfly Restaurant and Sushi Bar is partnering with Slow Food Lake Tahoe to host a twist on the community supported agriculture box. It’s slated for March 2 at 6pm in downtown Truckee. Attendees will get to solve the mysteries contained in CSA veggie boxes by visiting food demo stations, trying their hand at rolling rice […]
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