• Rocky and Teri Rothschild have made a $10,000 donation for the Joy Rothschild Scholarship that helps students at Mt. Tallac School. Rothschild started the scholarship before she died two years ago. Rocky is her father and Teri her sister. • The Smiling Tree Symposium is the topic of the free July 14, 5:30pm UCCE […]
Read more
For $2,500 people have the opportunity to play with one of the ACC golf tournament celebrities. All but $100 goes to local nonprofits. The July 17 event will be at Clear Creek Tahoe. It will include 12 celebrities each playing with three amateur partners. The day includes: breakfast, tee prize, 18-hole scramble, lunch and two […]
Read more
By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun Nevada’s Silver State Exchange was supposed to rescue people like Jill Parker. Parker, a 35-year-old Las Vegas mother of three, needed health care. She was in constant pain, suffering from Graves’ and Hashimoto’s diseases and hypoglycemia. She was relieved to see that Nevada planned to use the Affordable Care […]
Read more
By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee OUTINGDALE — In the small community of Outingdale in rugged El Dorado County, neighbors Mary Callahan and Steve White confess they used to leave the water running while brushing their teeth. No more. Now, in addition to turning that tap off, they have stopped filling outdoor birdbaths and cut back […]
Read more
Friends of the Library present Music on the Lawn with Sean Cummings. “The Tahoe Bagpiper” brings more than 30 years performing experience and seven generations of clan tradition to tell the story and play the music of the Scottish Highland Bagpipe. Bring a picnic dinner. The July 23, 6pm concert is free at the South […]
Read more
Human remains were found in the Kings Canyon area east of Spooner Summit. Washoe County will be conducting the autopsy to determine the cause of death and identify the deceased. Douglas County is leading the investigation. The remains were located approximately 300 yards to the north of Highway 50 near the top of Spooner Summit, […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed Successfully crossing the Sierra in the winter of 1847 was part survival of the fittest, part luck and part tenacity. For the Donner Party, it was mostly tragic. And while much has been written about cannibalism that took place, that is not the focus of Mark McLaughlin’s book “The Donner Party: Weathering […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed Thirteen inches. That’s how far our shed extends into the California Tahoe Conservancy lot. Altogether, it’s about 9 square feet. We have to remove it, or cut it back. That was the conclusion of what has now become more than a yearlong dispute with the state. A year ago this month, a […]
Read more
• North Lake Tahoe’s Peter Joseph Burtt and the Kingtide will kick off the third season of Live at Lakeview in South Lake Tahoe on June 26. Liquid Kactus opens the free event at 4:30pm. • Beginning July 1, Harrah’s Lake Tahoe will present Tuesday Night Tributes, a summerlong series featuring tribute bands recreating the […]
Read more
By AP With the U.S. Forest Service seemingly on course to keep empty a scenic mountain lake acquired years ago for the public for more than $43 million, state wildlife officials continue to press the argument the lake should be refilled and established as a fishing destination. Incline Lake, officials with the Nevada Department of […]
Read more