• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will honor Elvis Presley with a special exhibit featuring specific highlights of his career, including the rehearsal schedule from his 1971 Stateline performances. • Sierra Surgery Hospital, in partnership with Carson Tahoe Health, has been named Top Performer on Key Quality Measures by the Joint […]
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USDA Rural Development Nevada is providing a $25,200 grant to develop a website that will promote buying local products and services. Buy Local Rural Northern Nevada includes Douglas, Churchill, Humboldt, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing and Storey counties. Rural Washoe County is also part of project. The goal of the website is local businesses will be able […]
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By Allison Aubrey, NPR If you go back to the 1970s, people with a serious coffee habit often had an accompanying habit: smoking. And that’s why early studies gave coffee a bad rap. Clearly, smoking was harmful. And it was hard for researchers to disentangle the two habits. “So it made coffee look bad in […]
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The long-standing Tahoe Bottle Shop remains today, while the Swiss Village Motel, the Fern Road intersection, and Joe Montoya’s Stateline Shell (distant grey building) seen in the 2002 photo have been replaced with today’s landscaping. In the 1960s, prior to the “LIQUOR” sign, two large poles supported a huge electric Harrah’s marquee straddling over the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Technology has almost rendered fire lookouts obsolete. Still, there is one from the 1930s that is going to get a new lease on life in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The U.S. Forest Service wants to move the Zephyr Point lookout to White Hill, which is above the agency’s firehouse at Spooner Summit. […]
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By Patrick Stelmach While stumping across the nation recently in favor of early childhood education, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan discovered something interesting: More Republican governors than Democrats have increased funding at the state level for preschool programs. Actually, this should come as no surprise. Strong early education programs enjoy majority support from Americans […]
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By Christian E. Megrelis Emotional isolation is a growing problem, with more than one out of three adults aged 45 and older describing themselves as chronically lonely, up from one out of five a decade earlier. The contributing factors are easy to identify: high unemployment; marriage rate at a historic low; increased reliance on technology […]
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More than 600 students from South Lake Tahoe schools recently received a new jacket for the winter. Each year the Kiwanis, with the generosity of grants from the El Dorado Community Foundation, Antique and Classic Boat Society/Classic Wooden Boat Show, and the American Century Championship, is able to purchase these jackets. Eventually the service club […]
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Saint Joseph Community Land Trust is hosting a Give Thanks Spaghetti Dinner on Nov. 21 from 6-8pm. It’s an opportunity for the group to give thanks to members and supporters. Cost is $5. The dinner will be at Grace Hall at Saint Theresa Church, 1041 Lyons Ave., South Lake Tahoe.
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By Sophia Pearson and Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg Google Inc.’s project to digitally copy millions of books for online searches doesn’t violate copyright law, a federal judge ruled, dismissing an eight-year-old lawsuit against the largest search-engine company. Google Books provides a public benefit and is a fair use of copyrighted material, Judge Denny Chin in […]
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