Three Tahoe City residents were injured Tuesday in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 28. Morgan Russell, a passenger in the Nissan Murano, was taken to Renown Medical Center in Reno with life-threatening injuries. Wesley Waterman, the driver, and Karly Findorff sustained minor injuries. Nevada Highway Patrol troopers said Waterman might have fallen asleep, causing the […]
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• March 12 at 7pm is the Spring String Fling Concert at South Tahoe Middle School. The free concert includes elementary and high school students. • Placer County’s Department of Child Support Services continues to offer free monthly information sessions for those interested in learning more about the department’s programs and services. For more info, […]
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By Jerry Markon and Alice Crites, Washington Post From the beginning, the U.S. government’s decade-long crackdown on prescription drug abuse has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use. State and federal officials have pressed their campaign against prescription drug abuse with urgency, […]
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A chronic DUI offender was sentenced March 10 to 20 years to life in prison for gross negligence vehicle manslaughter while intoxicated, an enhancement of fleeing the scene, and felony hit and run. Larry L. Halverson, 61, had been found guilty on those charges on Oct. 1. Patrick Purnell, 51, was killed Sept. 4, 2011, […]
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ACT is sponsoring a bowling might at Tahoe Bowl to fund the spay-neuter program. It is March 26 from 6-9pm. A portion of the proceeds will benefit ACT’s spay-neuter program and the El Dorado County Tahoe animal shelter. There is a $5 entrance fee, and there will also be a raffle. Teams must sign up […]
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Heavenly Mountain Resort has been added as a stop for the North Face Park and Pipe Open Series. The slopestyle competition will be in the Ante Up Park on March 13-15. For info about registering to compete, contact Julia Jimmerson at jjimmerson@mtsports.com or 801.349.4616.
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By Kathryn Reed Students at Zephyr Cove Elementary School spent a day learning via a different kind of white board – snow. Thirty-two students in Damon Kixmiller’s fifth-grade class spent a recent Thursday snowshoeing at Heavenly Mountain Resort as part of the U.S. Forest Service’s Winter Trek Conservation Education program. Kixmiller believes place-based education – […]
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Publisher’s note: The following letter was sent last week to South Lake Tahoe City Manager Nancy Kerry. Dear Mrs. Kerry, I am Joby Cefalu, director of South Tahoe Basketball Academy. We rent the Recreation Center gym for two tournaments May 24-26 and June 20-22. Each of these tournaments brings over 200 youth basketball teams to […]
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The two women who died last week in a Placerville house fire had been shot to death. “The cause of the two victims deaths has been determined as gunshot wounds, however the manner in which they received those gunshot wounds is still under investigation,” El Doardo County sheriff’s deputies said in a press release. The […]
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By Tamar Lewinmarch, New York Times Saying its college admission exams do not focus enough on the important academic skills, the College Board announced on Wednesday a fundamental rethinking of the SAT, ending the longstanding penalty for guessing wrong, cutting obscure vocabulary words and making the essay optional. The president of the College Board, David […]
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