Child advocates of El Dorado County is having its annual box lunch fundraiser April 10. Volunteers will deliver 3,000 lunches from Pollock Pines to Rancho Cordova by noon that day. Funds raised will help pay for recruiting, training and supporting new advocates to help more abused and neglected kids in El Dorado County get into […]
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By Kathryn Reed No was not a word people who wanted a community college in South Lake Tahoe were willing to embrace. Their tenacity paid off and this year Lake Tahoe Community College District is celebrating its 40th year. As Los Rios Community College District was forming in the 1950s there was a push to […]
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By John Williams It takes collaboration and action to meet a community’s health needs. In March 2012, Barton Health engaged with the community to complete a comprehensive Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) of South Lake Tahoe’s health needs. Part of the Affordable Care Act, all nonprofit hospitals must identify health needs for vulnerable, often under-served, […]
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Don’t be fooled by the 60-degree temps in Lake Tahoe on Tuesday because winter is just hours away. The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a winter weather advisory from 4pm Wednesday to 10am Thursday. Rain is expected to arrive in the afternoon and change to snow in the evening. The heaviest snow is […]
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Roberta Mason, an original and current member of the Lake Tahoe Community College board, speaks about what it took to create the South Lake Tahoe institution that is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
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It’s possible the South Lake Tahoe Mental Health Commission will be abolished. On Feb. 26 at 5pm the county commission may vote on consolidating the commission into one entity. This could mean the South Shore would have less of a say. There is a movement to make the appointment an at-large countywide group of mental […]
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By Steve Tetreault and Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review Journal WILMINGTON, Del. – The governors of Nevada and Delaware signed an agreement Tuesday morning that join their states in a partnership for online poker. Documents signed by Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware established a legal framework for the first […]
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To the community, It’s been sad for me to see all of the misinformation and confusion about the Meyers Area Plan lately. As someone who is a from a third generation small mountain community family (my kids being the fourth) and someone who has lived in Meyers since 2001 and raised my kids here, I […]
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Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce is playing a hashtag game through March 15. The #TruckeeMoments campaign encourages locals and visitors to tag their photos taken in Truckee and the surrounding mountains with #TruckeeMoments on Twitter, Facebook, and/or Instagram. Each photo that is tagged counts as one entry. Weekly sweepstake winners will receive gift certificates donated […]
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By Alex Park and Julia Lurie, Mother Jones California, supplier of nearly half of all U.S. fruits, veggies, and nuts, is on track to experience the driest year in the past half millennium. Farms use about 80 percent of the state’s “developed water,” or water that’s moved from its natural source to other areas via […]
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