By Alana Semuels, New York Times In a packed pub in midtown Manhattan, Ryan Flagherty is surrounded on three sides by people clamoring for his attention. He spins one way and pours a shot of vodka into a glass, then turns around and wedges a lime into a bottle of Corona, pushing it across the […]
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• Registration is open for this year’s Youth Basketball League at Kahle Community Center in Stateline. For more information, call (775) 586.7271. • South Tahoe Alliance of Resorts donated $5,000 to Christmas Cheer in South Lake Tahoe. • Here is the Sierra roadwork schedule from Caltrans for the coming week. • The Optimist Kid’s Fun Run […]
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By Jennifer Medina, New York Times LOS ANGELES — California is challenging the historic status of American citizenship with measures to permit noncitizens to sit on juries and monitor polls for elections in which they cannot vote and to open the practice of law even to those here illegally. It is the leading edge of […]
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With the thermometer in the 30s this morning, it’s going to be a chilly Lake Tahoe Ironman. By 7:30am Sunday the first swimmers were out of the water. For their bike and run in the Tahoe-Truckee area the athletes will get to see snow on the higher peaks in the Lake Tahoe Basin. A quick […]
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Young’s Resort stood where today what we identify mostly as Timber Cove and the historic Conolley’s in South Lake Tahoe. The hotel was recently renamed Beach Retreat & Lodge. Today’s 700 foot pier at the city-operated Conolley Beach is the longest pier on Lake Tahoe. — Bill Kingman
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – Piece-by-piece agencies in the basin are putting together a comprehensive bike trail system with the goal of eventually being able to ride a bike around Lake Tahoe on something other than a state highway. At this month’s California Tahoe Conservancy meeting the board awarded $500,000 to the Tahoe City […]
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By Clem Shute The unanimous passage of SB630 by the California Legislature marks the end of an era of controversy and the beginning of an era of renewed cooperation between California and Nevada. The passage of this bill means a renewed commitment by the two states to cooperate in achieving the environmental thresholds established by […]
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Placer County is continuing to update planning documents for the Lake Tahoe Basin as well a having public workshops and releasing two planning documents. Now available are the Placer County Tahoe Basin Policy Document Existing Conditions Report and the Placer County Kings Beach Vision Plan. The Existing Conditions Report analyzes environmental resources and hazards, and […]
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The 14th annual Sunset Gala to benefit Live Violence Free is Sept. 27 from 6-9pm. The event is at Harvey’s Top of the Wheel. This is the biggest fundraiser of the year. Money raised provides funds for all of the organization’s programs and services offered to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse. […]
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By Annie Lowrey, New York Times WASHINGTON — For the first time in half a decade, median household income did not decrease and poverty did not increase in 2012, the Census Bureau said in the release of a major annual report on poverty, insurance and earnings. The report depicts an economy that has so far […]
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