• Nevada Department of Transportation is reminding political candidates and property owners that all political signs posted near state roads need to be removed by Dec. 6. • Carson City’s annual Silver and Snowflake Festival of Lights is now two days — Dec. 7 from 5:30-6:30pm and Dec. 8 from 10am-4pm. For more info, call […]
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By Kathryn Reed People are coming to Lake Tahoe and they are spending money. And projections for 2013 are that more of the same is going to happen. “We are going to have our best year sales-wise. It’s a combination of people staying closer to home and fabulous weather,” Tom Turner, owner of the 14-year-old […]
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By Cynthia Hubert, Sacramento Bee It is a killer disguised in a luscious package. Amanita phalloides, the mushroom suspected of fatally poisoning four elderly people at a Loomis care home, is commonly called the death cap. The death cap draws in mushroom hunters with its sturdy stem and smooth, bald top, ranging in color from […]
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Lake Tahoe Museum’s Holiday in History is Dec. 7-9. Calls can be made to the North Pole all three days from the South Lake Tahoe museum. That Saturday local author Todd Bord will be signing his books from noon-2pm. The books are sold at the museum. The museum is open that Friday from noon-8pm, on […]
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South Lake Tahoe and Lake Tahoe Community College Connect Community Education are sponsoring the Renovator, Repair, Painter course for local construction workers. The Lead Safe Worker eight-hour training for Renovators, Repair and Painters is being offered at LTCC on Dec. 8 from 8am-5pm. The cost to attend the training is $50. Up to two workers […]
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Updated Dec. 2 5pm: NV Energy is reporting 300 customers in Round Hill and 50 along the Mt. Rose Highway are without power. Crews are on scene trying to fix the problems. — Latest outage update: 300 customers in Round Hill/South Shore; 50 along Mt Rose Highway; 200 in Hawthorne; 20 in Wadsworth. Crews on […]
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By USSA In a day full of superlatives, Lindsey Vonn took an Audi FIS Alpine World Cup record seventh straight win in Lake Louise with U.S. Ski Team teammate Julia Mancuso second to complete a one-two U.S. women’s sweep of the weekend. Vail’s Vonn came down 21st in a snowy, foggy super G to knock […]
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Lake Valley Fire Department’s Christmas engine is about drive through neighborhoods. Here is the schedule: Dec. 11 – Echo View Estates, Tahoe Mountain Road, Mule Deer Circle Dec. 12 – Lake Tahoe Boulevard from Boulder Mountain Drive to Grizzly Mountain Drive Dec. 13 – West side of North Upper Truckee from Zuni Street to Highway […]
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By Marsha Friedman What’s the fastest-growing marketing trend on the Internet? I’m sad to say it’s the “fakeosphere.” Yes, fake blogs (called “flogs”), fake web news sites and fake testimonials. They look like the real thing, right down to comments posted by “bloggers” and their supposed readers. Those comments appear to be written by people […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee A scam that started on Craigslist has left an El Dorado County woman out $3,500. Roseville police report that the woman recently listed her car for sale on the website. A man who said he was from San Francisco told her he wanted to deposit money into her bank account […]
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