By Kathryn Reed Carb loading has long been said to be beneficial before an athletic endeavor. I think it works after the fact, too. After coming back from the district tennis tournament last Sunday the last thing I wanted to do was fix dinner. Sue came through with a concoction that was wonderful. Since I […]
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• There’s a free blues show at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe every Tuesday at 7:30pm. • Viking Construction of Rancho Cordova has been awarded the contract to construct a bridge on Highway 50 at the Sly Park Road undercrossing in Pollock Pines. Viking submitted the lowest bid at $5.2 million. The total cost of the project […]
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About three dozen marijuana plants were seized from a South Lake Tahoe residence this week, one person was arrested and a dog was shot. The Rottweiler-pit bull mix seized the arm of an officer, but did not wound him. The dog ran off after being shot. It was eventually caught and taken to a vet […]
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By Bethany Clough, Fresno Bee The California Restaurant Association urged restaurants Wednesday to conserve water as the state deals with a historic drought, including only serving water to customers upon their request. Local association representatives say there’s even more that restaurants can do, despite an existing emphasis on water conservation learned in past droughts. Many […]
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Tahoe-Truckee local Jen Gurecki will share what it’s like to work hard and play hard in Kenya. Her latest adventure – Summit for Our Sisters – took her up Mount Kenya, an ancient, extinct volcano that boasts the second highest peak on the continent of Africa, towering more than 16,000 feet. With 12 glaciers that […]
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Little snow equated to declining revenues for Stateline casinos in January. The Nevada Gaming Control Board on Friday released the revenue numbers for the first month of the year. Statewide revenues dropped 2.76 percent to $884.2 million compare to 2013. Stateline revenues fell 12 percent to $15 million. Washoe County numbers were up 1 percent […]
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By USSA KVITJELL, Norway — Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley) knifed through rugged snow and limited visibility Friday to earn the first Audi FIS Alpine World Cup podium finish of his career with third in the first of two Kvitfjell downhills. Fresh off what was a career-best fifth at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games downhill in […]
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By Kathryn Reed A greenbelt going behind McDonald’s and CVS at the Y in South Lake Tahoe. Another on the other side of Highway 50. Both being multidimensional by being stormwater basins, greenways and recreation conduits. Those are ideas being floated in the Tahoe Valley Area Plan. More than 60 people interested in what South […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Feb. 19, 2014, Fresno Bee. The California drought has finally gotten the attention of state and federal officials, and they are even taking actions that could be helpful in the short term. Earlier this month, President Obama announced drought relief assistance for California and then Gov. Jerry Brown […]
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By Philip Ross, International Business Times Canadian ecologist Patrick Moore, known as one of the co-founders of the activist group Greenpeace, has a history of sharply dissenting from policies supported by major environmental groups, including the one he helped create. Moore’s latest departure is to assert that climate change, particularly the gradual warming of Earth’s […]
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