By Northern Nevada Business Weekly The number of people moving into Nevada has slowed after 24 years of high inbound traffic, finds an annual study of moving trends by United Van Lines. United Van Lines’ 34th annual migration study, which tracks interstate household moving patterns among the 48 contiguous states, shows that 1,761 households used […]
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By Steven Mufson, Washington Post The headline news for the coal industry in 2010 was what didn’t happen: Construction did not begin on a single new coal-fired power plant in the United States for the second straight year. This in a nation where a fleet of coal-fired plants generates nearly half the electricity used. But […]
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“The Sound of Music” will be performed Jan. 27-30 in the South Tahoe Middle School multipurpose Room. Performances begin at 7pm. Thursday-Saturday, with a matinee on Jan. 30 at 2pm. The cast is composed primarily of South Tahoe High School students, with the addition of several talented younger students cast as the Von Trapp children. […]
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It is Martin Luther King Jr. weekend and the Brotherhood of Skiers is in town. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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By Elizabeth Karam, U.S. Ski Team MARIBOR, Slovenia – Poor course conditions due to warm weather forced race officials to cancel the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup giant slalom in Maribor after 25 racers. With temperatures reaching close to 60 degrees Fahrenheit, the snow softened causing challenging conditions. At the time of cancellation, Olympic champions […]
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By Kade Krichko, U.S. Snowboarding MT. HOOD MEADOWS, Ore. – The U.S. Revolution Tour wrapped up its competition at Mt. Hood Meadows, Ore., with the men’s and women’s snowboardcross and skicross. Hunter Murphy of Deephaven, Minn., and Celine Valentine of Simsbury, Conn., were able to win the men’s and women’s snowboardcross. Randy Detrick of Saylorsburg, […]
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• It’s time to comment on the initial phase of the proposed Stateline-to-Stateline bike path. • 2011 is being hailed as World Veterinary Year because the world’s first veterinary school was founded in 1761 in Lyon, France. • Heather Allison Smith, director of sales and marketing at the Ritz-Carlton at Northstar, is on the Hospitality […]
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Publisher’s note: This is from the September 1973 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. By Bill Hauck Recently two afternoons were spent at the Sierra House Elementary School site salvaging portions of the old red barn for the Historical Society. On Saturday afternoon, August 25th, Henry Newburgh, Mike Magliari, Ed Laine, and I ripped off the […]
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State Sen. Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, has introduced a bill to help cut the cost of special elections in small California counties. Senate Bill 109 would give counties with populations of less than 400,000 the option to only have vote-by-mail special election. “My bill will help cut the costs counties incur to conduct special elections by […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times California should more aggressively enforce the state’s ban on wasteful water use and crack down on inefficient irrigation practices, a state watermaster recommends. In a report that will be presented next week to the State Water Resources Control Board, Delta Watermaster Craig Wilson wades into a potentially explosive area […]
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