To the community, Tahoe is being ransomed for development. You may have heard the hurrahs. Sierra Watch and Mountain Area Preservation have negotiated a deal to save 6,600 acres on the east side of Highway 267 above Waddle Ranch from development. It’s great, logging will still be allowed, but no one wants to see 1,360 […]
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By Reed Abelson, Katie Thomas and Jo Craven McGinty, New York Times As technical failures bedevil the rollout of President Obama’s health care law, evidence is emerging that one of the program’s loftiest goals — to encourage competition among insurers in an effort to keep costs low — is falling short for many rural Americans. […]
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By Michael Mosley, BBC News Which is healthier – coffee or smoothies? It seems obvious that the answer must be a smoothie. After all, drinking coffee is a necessary evil while having a smoothie, made from fruit, is part of your five-a-day. But when you look into the scientific studies they reveal something much more […]
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By Eliza Barclay, NPR Five years ago, a landmark report excoriated the animal agriculture industry’s practices and laid out a roadmap for how it could do better. But in the years since, the problems are just as bad — and maybe even worse. That’s the conclusion of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. […]
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With winter fast approaching, it is time to prepare backcountry ski equipment and refresh those avalanche safety skills. On Nov. 7 at 7pm Alpenglow Sports will provide a free educational forum to prepare backcountry enthusiasts of all ability levels for the upcoming season. In the first of two installments of the annual Community Avalanche Safety […]
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By Tom DuHain, KCRA-TV Bass Lake in El Dorado County is for sale, and a school district is negotiating to purchase it. The 90-acre lake, a rock dam and another 58 acres of land around the lake are being offered by the El Dorado Irrigation District. The lake is home to a variety of water […]
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Legendary South Shore musician Ron Rose died Oct. 22. He was 83. Born Rupert Ronald Rose on June 18, 1930, in Warren, Ohio, he began playing piano at age 4. Jazz was hot and Ron took to it quickly. Before ever learning to read music, young Ron became an expert at his trade. In his […]
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Additional Nevada Highway Patrol troopers will be on duty the three-day Nevada Day holiday weekend, as well as next Friday and Saturday evening in the greater Reno-Sparks area, in an effort to identify any motorists who may be impaired. With federal funding secured by the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety’s Joining Forces grant program, this […]
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Audio 101 is a three-day workshop with six-hour sessions that will cover topics such as how the ear perceives sound, acoustics, and sound travel. There will be hands-on learning of setting up a sound system with speakers, basic connections, equalization, mixing and routing of signals, as well as power management. The workshop is Nov. 4-6 […]
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• The American Planning Association recently honored the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. The Regional Plan won the Western Planner Sheldon D. Gerber Award for Excellence in Environmental Planning as well as the Nevada APA award for Outstanding Environmental Plan. Senior planner Theresa Avance received the Professional Planner of the Year from the Nevada APA. • […]
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