South Lake Tahoe Art League is hosting a fund-raising lunch for Peter Darvas on Oct. 18 from 1-5pm at at Tepp’s Villa Roma, 3450 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. Darvas suffered the loss of his studio and home on Pioneer Trail to fire last month. Live music will be provided by Patrick Major. Menu […]
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By Daniel B. Wood, Christian Science Monitor LOS ANGELES — Is the initiative process an invaluable tool that holds legislators to account and allows voters to take on the monied interests that dominate politics? Or has it become a tool of those special interests themselves, confusing voters and making states an ungovernable mess? Opinions on […]
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By Annie Hauser, Huffington Post Some vegetarians can be awfully superior about the health benefits of their plant-based diet. What they might not know is they have the Adventist Health Study to thank. In the ’70s and ’80s, a series of studies from Loma Linda University in California, which has tracked tens of thousands of […]
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North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District is gearing up to begin prescribed burning sometime this coming week depending on weather conditions and local as well as regional resource availability. The fire district wants to assure residents that if any one of several conditions that must be met in order to conduct a controlled burn is […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe went to the dogs Sunday during the 8th annual Mutt Strut. It wasn’t just South Shore residents participating in the fundraiser – some came from Squaw, others from the Bay Area, even San Diego. And a few foreign languages could be heard, too. Starting at Regan Beach on Oct. […]
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By Kathryn Reed ZEPHYR COVE – The percentage of Douglas County School District students testing positive for drugs mirrors the national school district average of between 2 and 3 percent. DCSD was at 2.3 percent for the 2011-12 school year. Of the 15 positive tests – and that could be one student testing positive more […]
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By Ed Vogel, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval should increase funding for the state Division of Parole and Probation in the budget he prepares for the Legislature to consider next year, a commission of legislators, judges, police and the attorney general decided Wednesday. The Commission on the Administration of Justice proposed […]
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By Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal Sutter Gold Mining Inc. says it is on track to begin gold mining and gold production before the end of the year. Construction has progressed on above-ground buildings and site work, and the company has made progress in expanding its underground shafts. The company anticipates its first gold pour […]
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The traveling Vietnam War Memorial will be in Carson City Oct. 25-28. The wall will be at Mills Park on Highway 50. Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 388 is putting on a parade Oct. 27 at 10am. A barbecue from 1-3pm will be at the Vietnam Remembrance Compound. Cost is $15 at the door. For […]
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Until about 1984, this single-story cinder-block building, left, built in the 1950s housed a metal-roofed boat storage and rentals barn at one end and a soda fountain at the other end, complete with a jukebox. Today, below, it is the Beacon Bar and Grill at Camp Richardson. — Bill Kingman
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