The next bingo nights at the South Lake Tahoe Senior Center are May 4 and May 18. Anyone older than 18 is invited to play. Doors open at 4pm, at 4:30pm game packs are sold, at 5pm is early bird bingo, and at 5:30pm are the regular games. The center is at 3050 Lake Tahoe […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau KIRKWOOD – When Vail Resorts bought Kirkwood in April 2012, the company did not get all of Kirkwood. What the Colorado-based company bought were the rights to run the actual ski resort, the associated restaurants and retail, and the overnight lodging. Kirkwood Mountain Development retained all real estate development rights. What this […]
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By Mandy Kendall Now that summer is round the corner, some of us may be thinking ahead about getting in shape for all those activities and, dare I say it, more revealing wardrobes. The winter may have encouraged us to gain a little insulation over the past few months that we no longer need. So […]
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By Mary Bittner In recent months, Barton Memorial Hospital’s Skilled Nursing Facility has been challenged with keeping patients, staff and the facility in its entirety safe from the effects of California Assembly Bill 97. If passed, this bill would create devastating cuts to reimbursement for Medi-Cal services provided by distinct part skilled nursing facilities (DP/SNFs) […]
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To the community, The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency recently completed their Regional Plan update. Possibly influenced by other environmental agencies — TRPA created a new 20-year build-out plan to dramatically cut residential building allocations for Tahoe by 57 percent — 300 to 130 total — for the Tahoe region. This harsh new number (130/year) was […]
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By Nate Schweber, New York Times PYRAMID LAKE — For most fishermen a 20-pound trout is a trophy, but for Paiute tribe members and fish biologists here the one Matt Ceccarelli caught was a victory. That Lahontan cutthroat trout he caught last year, a remnant of a strain that is possibly the largest native trout […]
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Lake Tahoe’s Shining Stars celebrate the joy and beauty of dance in their 30th annual recitals on the stage of the South Shore Room at Harrahs’ Lake Tahoe on April 28. The dancers, who are from the Marcia Sarosik Dance Studio, will put on two performances – 1pm and 5:30pm. The recitals are to showcase […]
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By KCRA-TV The state expects to have nearly as many inmates available to help during this year’s firefighting season as it did before a 2-year-old law began sending lower-level felons to county jails instead of state prisons, officials said Wednesday. Currently, 3,820 inmates are training in the state’s 44 fire camps, said state corrections department […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College is putting on a community forum April 30 from 6:30-7:30pm to discuss the possibility of intercollegiate men’s and women’s soccer programs. The college is researching developing a program in an effort to serve the community’s and students’ interests, and to create a more connected campus and a more vibrant sense of […]
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Truckee officials are calling the April 11 fire at the C.B. White House “suspicious” in nature. Officials are hoping the public can help with the investigation by providing information if they saw anyone near the 1874 Victorian mansion before the fire erupted. The fire caused extensive damage to the restaurant at the back of the […]
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