Tahoe Writers Works, a local writing group, will be hosting workshops throughout 2013. This month’s workshops will Jan. 8 and Jan. 22, both at 6:30pm at Bona Fide Books, 1069 Magua St., No. 4 in Meyers. Beginning and established writers are welcome. There is no obligation other than an exceptional love of the written word. […]
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By Ron Ashkenas, Harvard Business Review I recently heard a stunning statistic: For the next 19 years, 10,000 people per day will turn 65 years old, and (presumably) retire shortly thereafter. While this graying of the Boomer generation certainly has implications for health care and social policy (and for me personally, as one of those […]
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By Kathryn Reed For now, 2-year-old Oumy N’Doye must call her baby sister just that – baby sister. This is because in her parents’ native country of Senegal the naming of a newborn occurs one week after the birth and with a big family celebration. With modern technology, the ceremony will be via Skype. This […]
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By Sanford Nax, Sacramento Business Journal Home sales around Lake Tahoe increased in 2012, with a 34 percent gain in units sold and a 40 percent jump in sales volume, according to a year-end report released by Chase International of Lake Tahoe. Tahoe City and Incline Village experienced the biggest jumps in sales, with 77 […]
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About 100 acres in the Upper Echo Lakes area could be thinned beginning later this year. It is likely to take six years for the U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit to do all the work. The project is intended to reduce the risk of wildfire and improve firefighting effectiveness. Forest Supervisor Nancy […]
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A Truckee man was arrested this week in a case involving the theft of several snowblowers. In the last two months of 2012 suspects were specifically targeting Honda snowblowers, which are popular in the Truckee Tahoe area, and have an average retail price of $3,000, according to Truckee police officers. On tips from residents officers […]
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A memorial fund in Alyssa Byrne’s name has been set up with the Lake Tahoe Community College Foundation to assist her family. Byrne, a 19-year-old Petaluma resident, attended the three-day SnowGlobe music festival Dec. 29-31 on the college campus in South Lake Tahoe. She died of what is believed to be hypothermia on the last […]
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If your home heater goes out during a winter storm, keep warm by closing off the rooms you don’t need. Use only safe sources of heat like wood or UL-approved indoor fuel burning stoves. Dress in several layers of lightweight clothing and wear a wool cap because a lot of your body heat is lost […]
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Updated Jan. 4 2pm: El Dorado County sheriff’s Lt. Pete Van Arnum said while there appears to be no foul play in the death of Petaluma resident Alyssa Byrne, the investigation is ongoing to determine how she ended up off the side of Pioneer Trail. “There is conflicting information about this case. We aren’t exactly […]
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Rescue crews have located a body Friday morning near Cold Creek in El Dorado County on the outskirts of South Lake Tahoe. It is not known at this time if it is that of missing Petaluma teenager Alyssa Byrne. Search and rescue teams had resumed looking for the 19-year-old this morning. They started at the […]
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