By Maria Godoy, NPR Here’s a bit of news that might make you drop that chicken nugget midbite. Just before the start of Labor Day weekend, the U.S. Department of Agriculture quietly announced that it was ending a ban on processed chicken imports from China. The kicker: These products can now be sold in the […]
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By Tracie Cone, AP Scientists are assessing the damage from a massive wildfire burning around Yosemite National Park, laying plans to protect habitat and waterways as the fall rainy season approaches. Members of the federal Burned Area Emergency Response team were hiking the rugged Sierra Nevada terrain Saturday even as thousands of firefighters still were […]
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There have been more than 1,300 federal and state tax code changes in the past year. For those who want to know more and how they apply to their lives and the lives of others, H&R Block in South Lake Tahoe is offering an income tax course. The class, along with a job fair is […]
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Celebrate the changing of the seasons and community wellness at Autumn Fest on Sept. 21. The day will be filled with family fun including: local music, wellness talks and activities, fall family portraits, food, produce, pumpkin patch, kids crafts, and more. This free event benefits the Lake Tahoe Community College Demo Garden. The 11am-4pm event […]
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Bona Fide Books will launch poet Robert Krut’s award-winning collection “This Is the Ocean” with a reading and book signing on Oct. 11 at 7pm. The free event is part of the Lake Tahoe Community College’s Writers’ Series. Krut’s second collection, “This Is the Ocean” claimed the Meyers publisher’s 2012 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize, […]
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The landmark Cecil’s Market on Highway 50 near Stateline existed from the 1930s to 2001. Today the market is located in the succeeding Heavenly Village complex. The dirt driveway adjacent to the right of the original Cecil’s led to Jack Van Sickle’s Stateline Stables, also serving as the entrance to the original Tahoe Drive-In Theater […]
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By Kathryn Reed SAN FRANCISCO – Who slept here? What were their communal meals like? What were there conversations? If only walls could talk. The Inn at the Presidio used to be where single officers would reside when this was an Army base. Today it is upscale lodging for civilians. Since the Army left in […]
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To the community, As the director of College Advancement and Community Engagement for Lake Tahoe Community College, I would like to apologize for the poorly written press release, Insight Into Russian Language, Culture and Politics that I released Sept. 3. I gave the false impression that LTCC instructor Maria Mircheva would be discussing “homosexual behavior” […]
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By Jeffrey Sparshott, Wall Street Journal About one-third of U.S. households have ditched landline phones, driven by younger Americans relying on their cellphones, new Census Bureau data showed Thursday. Just under 71 percent of households had landlines in 2011, down from a little more than 96 percent 15 years ago. Cellphone ownership reached 89 percent, […]
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By Trevor Wilson An alarming Gallup poll published earlier this year is still sending shockwaves throughout the business community: Most American workers either hate their jobs or don’t care one way or the other about them. Less than a third of Americans are actively engaged in their work, meaning they’re passionate about it, enthusiastic and […]
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