Home sales have continued to rise around Lake Tahoe, where there was a 37 percent jump in units sold and a 16 percent rise in sales volume, according to a quarterly report released by Lake Tahoe-based real estate company Chase International. Homes less and more than the million-dollar mark experienced significant increases in sales (37 […]
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Do you know what went into getting American women the right to vote? The film “Iron Jawed Angels” (with Hilary Swank) tells the story of two courageous women who in the early 1900s helped get women the right to vote. Unity at the Lake is sponsoring the movie night on Oct. 15 at 7pm. Donations […]
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“Green Fire”, a documentary film about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold, will be shown Nov. 8 at Sierra Nevada College. Doors open at 6:30pm and film begins at 7pm. A question-answer period will follow. The screening is free. The college is at 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village.
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By Mary Catherine O’Connor, Outside Pointing to the sacredness of the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, Ariz., a coalition of Native American tribes has been fighting the development and expansion of Arizona Snowbowl ski resort since 1979. It remains defiant, reports the New York Times, despite having suffered a key legal defeat this winter. […]
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• Placer County has released the Notice of Preparation for the Squaw Village proposed project. The document is online. Comments will be taken through Nov. 9. • The Sacramento Bee did a study on California legislators that shows in the 2011-12 session 99 percent of the time Democrats voted the same way as the majority […]
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By Vicki Barber Driving around our expansive El Dorado County — sprawling from the valley up through the foothills and forests to Lake Tahoe — I am constantly amazed at the diversity and beauty of the terrain. I am equally impressed by the diversity of our school districts. Yet after a quarter century of striving […]
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By Bryan Walsh, Time When my predecessors at Time reviewed ecologist Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” 50 years ago this month, they were less than impressed. While the piece praised her graceful writing style, it argued that Carson’s “emotional and inaccurate outburst” was “hysterically overemphatic,” which I believe is a fancy way of saying that […]
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By Kathryn Reed Deciding to disband redevelopment agencies throughout California has proved to be more cumbersome than many people anticipated and has necessitated the revision of laws and new ones created to help local governments comply with what Sacramento wants. It has left South Lake Tahoe and El Dorado County battling over $1.5 million. It’s […]
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While the definitive reason a plane crashed in August while taking off from Lake Tahoe Airport has not been determined, preliminary data points to the mixture of fuel as the reason. Five people from Fresno died Aug. 25 when the Piper Cherokee nose-dived into a field as it was taking off toward the lake. Witnesses […]
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Tahoe Rim Trail Association will put the finishing touches on a new section of trail within the Rim to Reno Trail System on Oct. 20. This new section of trail was started in 2011 and allows hikers accessing the Tahoe Rim Trail at Relay Peak from the Mt. Rose Summit trailhead off Highway 431 to […]
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