The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will host a field trip Oct. 25 to observe progress on the Upper Truckee River restoration project. Participants should meet on Onnontioga Street, just south of the Omaha Street intersection at 5pm. Onnontioga Street is located off of Washoan Boulevard on Pioneer Trail. Sturdy shoes are […]
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By Karoun Demirjian, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — The congressional standoff that shut down the government and brought the country to the brink of defaulting on its debt may not have produced any winners, but polls, pundits and politicians from both sides of the aisle agree that the biggest political losers are Republican lawmakers. Yet, […]
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By Rong-Gong Lin II, Rosanna Xia and Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times After the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, California began to map faults across the state. Over the next two decades, officials published 534 maps of active earthquake faults. New construction was prohibited on top of these fissures because previous quakes showed that buildings could be […]
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By NPR This Halloween season, the cereal monsters are on the loose. Count Chocula, Boo Berry and Franken Berry have consumers in their grasp — for a limited time only. General Mills’ line of “Monster Cereals” originally hit the market in the early ’70s, but the company decided in 2010 they would only be available […]
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November is National Novel Writing Month and to celebrate the South Lake Tahoe Library will be hosting a Teen Writers Group. Check out books to help you write your novel, and meet other authors for fun and encouragement. The group will meet Nov. 1, Nov. 8, Nov. 15 and Nov. 22 at 3pm at the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Capturing the South Shore’s history via murals has been an ongoing endeavor since the 1990s. The last creation was recently installed on the Meek’s building in Meyers. Called the Celio Family Cattle Drive, it brings to life the annual cattle drive between Lake Valley and the West Slope. In the center is […]
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Publisher’s note: Squaw Valley is not in the Lake Tahoe Basin. By Tom Mooers Lake Tahoe is no stranger to wild development schemes. The latest threat to the Tahoe Sierra centers on Squaw Valley, where developers are proposing a series of high-rise hotels and condos – even an indoor amusement park the likes of which […]
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Sugar Bowl and Squaw Valley-Alpine Meadows are relying on Facebook votes to move to the finals of Powder magazine’s Ski Town Throwdown. Each resort will have 24 hours to garner more votes than its competition. First up, Sugar Bowl Resort will compete against Mount Baker, Wash., on Oct. 24. Next up, Squaw Valley-Alpine Meadows will […]
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The South Lake Tahoe Police Department has been awarded a $33,200 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety for a year-long program aimed to improve traffic safety. The grant will assist in efforts to deal with traffic safety problems and to reduce the number of people killed and injured in traffic collisions. While traffic […]
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Ruth (Murphy) Valine of Reno died Oct. 10 after a brief illness. She was 82. She was born Sept. 4, 1931, in Oklahoma City to Pearl Marie and Henry Goslin. She was greatly influenced by wartime. As a young woman, Ruth volunteered for church groups and was proud to plant a victory garden to help […]
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