With the holiday’s right around the corner, many local families are finding themselves with few resources as they struggle to rebuild their lives after experiencing violence. They are solely focused on how they will pay rent and provide food and warm clothing for their families. For the 12th year in a row, Live Violence Free, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Rare is the time when a campaign is visibly launched against a candidate. Welcome to South Lake Tahoe. Signs began cropping up this week against Austin Sass who is running for the South Lake Tahoe City Council. The man behind the signs is Mike McKeen, an ardent voice in the anti-loop road […]
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Paula Crenshaw of Barton internal medicine on Nov. 7 is giving a lecture about how to maximize nutrition and exercise for busy lives. The 6pm talk at Kahle Community Center in Stateline is free. The discussion will focus on: Food vs. vitamin pills? Research shows why food nutrients are better than supplements. What foods have […]
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By Kathryn Reed Leaving college to enlist in the Army. Wanting a change, a new direction, to be a bit defiant and get off the track his parents had laid out. It can happen to any 22-year-old. The difference is this was 1967. The Vietnam War was raging. Young American men, boys really, were dying […]
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The hazardous wood roof replacement grant program that is designed to encourage homeowners with hazardous wood roofs to replace them with a full Class A Assembly, non-combustible, non-wood roof is now available to people living in South Lake Tahoe. Lake Valley Fire Protection District in cooperation with the California Emergency Management Agency and the Federal […]
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By Kathryn Reed Gino DiMatteo, the man accused of bribing South Lake Tahoe City Councilwoman Angela Swanson, is back behind bars. This time he faces federal drug charges. While the state drug charges have been dropped, the federal charges are more serious if only because of the venue. Plus, the El Dorado County District Attorney’s […]
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The 2012-13 Tahoe Backcountry Vertical Challenge continues its third year as Lake Tahoe’s communitywide fundraising initiative to benefit the Sierra Avalanche Center, a vital yet underfunded resource for the Tahoe backcountry community. Participants may register for free online to log human-powered, backcountry vertical travel. When the cumulative goal of 15 million vertical feet of human-powered […]
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By Tony Dokoupil, Newsweek Full dark in downtown Denver, and inside one of the twinkling high-rises that make the skyline, drug dealers are putting money into envelopes. They’re trying to be discreet. No one signed the security logbook in the lobby. All assume the room could be bugged. But if your image of the drug […]
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Carson City is getting a big present this upcoming holiday season with the return of the Polar Express train that will roll through the frosty Northern Nevada landscape on 15 dates throughout November and December. For the second year, the Virginia & Truckee Railroad is one of the officially licensed Polar Express Train Ride events […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Heading into eleventh-hour contract negotiations with Raley’s, unionized grocery workers got public support Thursday from Sacramento’s most powerful labor leaders. A rally in front of the federal building in downtown Sacramento turned into a rousing send-off for union negotiator Jacques Loveall, president of Local 8 of the United Food and […]
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