By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News Two months after taking office, President Barack Obama signed a historic wilderness bill that banned logging, mining and oil drilling across 2 million acres of scenic federal lands, including the Sierra Nevada, wildflower meadows on Oregon’s Mount Hood and vast vistas of California desert. But today, with less […]
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• Sugar Bowl ski resort has a new website. • The Lake Tahoe Museum in South Lake Tahoe is having a holiday open house in December. Click on the flyer for more information. • Virginia City in a Nevada Day celebration brought together 57 hairy men so the town could be declared the state’s “most bearded […]
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Paulette Grune, through her business Reflections of the Past, will give a costumed presentation of Victorian Ladies, Their Manners and Morals. The free event on Nov. 13 is put on the Lake Tahoe Historical Society. It starts at 7pm at the Camp Richardson Lodge on Highway 89 on the South Shore.
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U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews will conduct prescribed fire operations in the Spring Creek area near the south end of Lake Tahoe starting Nov. 1. Crews anticipate burning 3 acres per day through the end of the week, conditions permitting. Residents and visitors can expect to see smoke from this prescribed fire project area. […]
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By Michelle Steel Proposition 30, on the Nov. 6 ballot, will ask Californians to raise their own taxes by about $6.6 billion to fund California’s bloated government. Proposition 30 won’t fix our schools or stabilize the state budget; it will increase tax volatility and leave our children facing more of the same. Proposition 30 will […]
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By Alex Breitler, Stockton Record It is 170 miles from the headwaters of the Mokelumne River to the Bay Area plant where Coca-Cola makes millions of bottled beverages every year. But the world’s largest soft drink company said it has a vested interest in that river. And it has backed that up with a $200,000 […]
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By Susanne Rust, California Watch The state’s Environmental Protection Agency finalized a revision of a controversial K-12 environmental curriculum on plastic bags Friday. California Watch reported last year that whole sections of an 11th-grade teachers’ edition guide for a new curriculum had been lifted almost verbatim from comments and suggestions submitted by the American Chemistry […]
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To the community, Sponsoring their first Adopt A Day of Nourishment, Lake Tahoe News hosted the hot, well-balanced meal that was served at St. Theresa Church parish hall on Sept. 3. The evening dinner provided more than 100 meals to less fortunate members of the South Lake Tahoe community. In addition to donating $250 to […]
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Sugar Pine Foundation staff and friends who have traveled to places around the globe including Antarctica, Central Asia, Mongolia and California’s Lost Coast will share photos, films and stories as part of fund-raising event. Lake Tahoe Pizza Co. will donate 30 percent of the night’s profits to Sugar Pine Foundation. The event is Nov. 16 […]
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