Squaw Valley will celebrate the return of Lake Tahoe’s athletes from the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi with an Olympic Homecoming Celebration on March 21. It will include live music, parade, fireworks. The welcome home party begins at 6:30pm at the KT Base Bar in the Village at Squaw Valley. Friday evening’s festivities include the […]
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By Paul Taylor Whether you’ve filed for an extension on your taxes this year, or have waited until the last minute to complete paperwork, or want a better strategy for the future, chances are you could be doing a better job throughout the year to save on income taxes. Forty-nine percent of Americans think they […]
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• South Tahoe Public Utility District is having a workshop March 26 from 2-5pm about rates. The meeting is at 1275 Meadow Crest Drive, South Lake Tahoe. • South Drug Free Coalition’s website is up. • Reno Earth Day is April 27 at Idlewild Park from 10am to 5pm. This festival includes live music, local […]
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By Elyce Kirchner, Kevin Nious and Jeremy Carroll, NBC Bay Area Unlike accidents on our highways, waterways, and theme parks, there is no system for independently tracking accidents at ski resorts, despite the fact that in California, most resorts are on federal land. Instead, accident tracking is left up to the ski industry to self-report, […]
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By John Rogers, AP LOS ANGELES — During the last years of his life, Ansel Adams pored over the tens of thousands of negatives he’d carefully stored since his teens, setting aside 70 he determined would stand as his greatest works of art. Adams offered to personally print, sign and sell sets of 25 photographs […]
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By Marilyn Geewax, KQED-TV On Thursday, President Obama rolled out his plan for strengthening overtime pay protections for millions of workers. In his view, if more workers got fatter paychecks, they could spend more and stimulate the economy. But if his critics are right, then employers would end up laying off workers to make up […]
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Sierra Nevada College’s new Poetry Center promotes an appreciation of contemporary poetry among students and community members while providing support for current and emerging poets. At the grand opening March 28-29 the college will be hosting poet laureate of California Juan Felipe Herrera and award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield for public readings and workshops. The Poetry […]
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By Kathryn Reed Eyes swollen? Nose running? It’s allergy season in Tahoe and technically it’s not even spring. Mother Nature apparently has her own calendar. Trees are flowering in the Lake Tahoe Basin, bulbs are sprouting and some early bloomers are shining through. According to the Weather Channel, the pollen forecast for today on the […]
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To the community, “Honest baby, it was just once. It meant nothing, I promise.” If you’ve never heard this before, thank your lucky stars. But if you have, you recognize a whopper when you hear it. Via email, I received a copy of the third round of a grant, a grant that our county supervisor […]
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By Joanne Marchetta The environment of Lake Tahoe does not often turn on a dime. Environmental progress is measured in decades, not the nanoseconds of the digital age. When the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and partner agencies started inspecting Lake Tahoe watercraft in 2008, all we knew was that we needed to protect our waters […]
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