A South Lake Tahoe man was arrested Thursday night after the vehicle he was driving plowed into two parked cars. Christopher Catterson, 27, told officers he was not the driver of the vehicle that hit two cars parked in a driveway at 2592 Fountain Drive. Witnesses told officers Catterson was in the driver’s seat of […]
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Is there anything better than a having a bunch of your friends come to your home mountain to shred while there’s perfect spring weather? In spring 2012, Jamie Anderson invited some her friends to Sierra-at-Tahoe to ride.
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Machine groomed corduroy and packed powder conditions. Here is the Feb. 22 ski report. — Curtis Fong
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The Truckee Donner Recreation & Park District is considering a public sale of the Truckee Veterans Building. The board of directors of the recreation district is having a meeting March 5 at 6:30pm to receive public input on the potential sale. It will be at the vet building. The district is considering selling the building […]
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By Kathryn Reed Peace, beauty, quiet, serenity, creatures, no machines, watershed. Those are some of the reasons people at the Feb. 20 Tahoe Area Sierra Club meeting said they walk in the forest. And it is for those sentiments and others that this group wants to protect the wilderness. Wilderness has a loose definition of […]
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By Roger Patching, Dave McClure, Ellie Waller and Ann Nichols That a lawsuit has been filed by the Sierra Club and Friends of the West Shore against the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Regional Plan update should come as no surprise to conservationists, politicians and governmental officials involved with it, as well as citizens who have […]
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By Nancy Shute, NPR Antioxidants in foods are good for you, so more should be better, right? Evidently not. In a new study, people who ate more antioxidants overall didn’t lower their risk of stroke and dementia in old age. That flies in the face of earlier research that found that the antioxidants in fruits […]
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Bob Anderson with the Tahoe Area Sierra Club speaks Feb. 20 about wilderness areas.
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By Andrew Doughman, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — A smoking habit could cost you a job opportunity at a hospital or other medical facility under legislation proposed by state Sen. Joe Hardy, R-Boulder City. It’s currently illegal for an employer to discriminate against employees who use a product — such as tobacco — outside […]
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By Dan Saltzstein, New York Times Locally grown. Market-sourced. Farm to table: These phrases have become the mantras of the American menu, promising ingredients that are supremely fresh, in season and produced within a tight radius of the restaurant. But what can they possibly mean in the dead of winter, in northerly climes where farms […]
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