Caregiving is a difficult and often challenging role. Caregiver support groups provide an outlet to share information and feel connected to others who are also providing care. Take the opportunity on the second Thursday of every month from 5:30-7pm at the South Lake Tahoe Senior Center 3050 Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe to become […]
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Are you are older than 60? Are you a resident of El Dorado County? Do you need legal advice? If yes, you can meet with an attorney at no charge on the first Wednesday of every month at the South Lake Tahoe Senior Center. Senior Legal attorneys can help El Dorado County seniors with issues […]
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By Kathryn Reed “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” – Walter Cronkite But it takes a slew of volunteers to keep libraries open and to provide the diverse programs. No longer do taxpayer dollars foot the entire bill. It is through nonprofits called Friends […]
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By Athan Manuel Over the past several weeks, America’s public lands, including our national parks and monuments, became a symbol of the pain caused by the government shutdown. And rightly so. Visitors were turned away, once-in-a-lifetime trips were canceled and local California economies lost an estimated $8.5 million each day of the shutdown. The public […]
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El Dorado County Health and Human Services Agency is putting on a series of free classes for seniors, family caregivers and other individuals called Aging and Caregiving. This series is designed to provide instruction and support for caregivers who are or are planning to care for a family member or friend age 60 or greater. […]
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This fall the Tahoe National Forest plans 1,200 acres of pile burning and 300 acres of underburning on the Yuba River Ranger District within Nevada, Sierra, and Yuba counties. Prescribed burn operations will begin this week and will extend through the fall, depending on current and predicted weather. The planned pile burns are located in […]
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By Howie Nave Let’s face it, Halloween up here in Lake Tahoe is truly on par with the remaining biggies we have the rest of this year. Who would have ever thought that a holiday (that’s right, I called it that) would have as many, if not more, movies associated with it than Christmas? Call […]
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By Priya Anand, Bloomberg Nevada, whose 9.5 percent unemployment rate is the nation’s highest, plans to sell $572 million in bonds this week to repay the federal government for jobless benefits. It’s the state’s biggest sale since 2008. The borrowing would pay down the $520 million Nevada owes the U.S. for bolstering its unemployment fund […]
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By Caitlin Cozine, Contra Costa Times As a teenage girl, the idea of choosing a Halloween costume fills me with dread. Browse any Halloween costume website, and you’ll see that for girls who have outgrown children’s sizes, selections are limited to costumes with names such as Bad Kitty, Teenage Runaway Schoolgirl, Maid of Lace and […]
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American Bill Johnson’s stunning Olympic downhill gold in 1984 is iconic in ski racing, having left an indelible mark in the annals of U.S. Ski Team history. ESPN’s news magazine program E:60 will look inside his story of triumph and tragedy in an episode airing Oct. 29 at 7pm. Johnson was a maverick who captured […]
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