By Vicki Barber I recently watched a rerun of “Little House on the Prairie.” All the children were in a one-room schoolhouse that I remember my grandmother talking about when she was a child. In those days, you took a test at the end of the year, left school for the summer, and came back […]
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The preliminary round of the 35th annual San Francisco International Comedy Festival will be at MontBleu casino in Stateline on Sept. 18 at 8pm. Tahoe’s comedy elimination competition will feature a dozen finalists who make it through qualifying rounds of hundreds this week at various Northern California venues. Comics have 5-7 minute to woo the […]
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• August’s South Shore Relay for Life raised $56,000. • Chase International’s Reno office has expanded to include a new property management division. The division, headed by Lois Kidder and Lisa Wallace, will focus on long-term residential and commercial property management in the Reno-Sparks and Zephyr Cove areas. • Moss Adams accounting firm this month […]
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By Alice Huffman According to a recent Field Poll, a dismal 16 percent of California voters approve of the job the Legislature is doing, and just 19 percent approve of Congress – the lowest congressional rating in the history of the poll. This is not surprising, considering that politicians on both sides of the aisle […]
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By Evan Halper, Marc Lifsher and Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO -— Environmentalists were counting on big gains in Sacramento this summer, with a governor eager to burnish his green credentials in his final months in office. But by the time the legislative session ended at midnight Tuesday, those hopes had fizzled. Activists had […]
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On Sept. 25 at 2pm share in locally-raised, seasonal foods as Moody’s Bistro Executive Chef Mark Estee and Chef de Cuisine Guy Frenette roast a Berkshire hog raised in pasture at the small, sustainable Shaw Family Farms in Truckee during Roast on the Range. · Proceeds from this event will benefit Girls on the Run […]
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Lovers of the great outdoors in El Dorado County can gather at the fairgrounds in Placerville this October for the first Gateway to the Sierra Sportsman’s Outdoor Expo. The Oct. 1-3 expo celebrates the rich and plentiful opportunities for outdoor recreation in El Dorado County, from fishing and hunting to boating, archery, biking, barbecuing and […]
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The nomination period has opened for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s 2010 Best in the Basin awards program, which annually recognizes the best designed, planned and implemented projects in the Tahoe basin that also stand out as environmentally compatible. The Best in the Basin program calls attention to projects of all categories – from natural […]
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By Kathryn Reed Tahoe Valley Elementary School’s falling statewide test scores was in stark contrast to how most of the schools in Lake Tahoe Unified School District performed. The Academic Performance Index is the measure the state uses to determine how students are doing from one year to the next. Results were released Monday. Overall, […]
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Jewel of the Sierra Belly Dance Competition is Sept. 18 from 11am-10pm. Participants will compete in five categories: Sapphire (Non-Professional), Ruby (Groups), Emerald (Live Music), Crystal (fusion of different dance and music), and Diamond (Professional). The judges will be scoring each competitor based on appearance, musical interpretation, technique, use of stage, presentation, entertainment value, and […]
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