Help the Sugar Pine Foundation plant fungus-resistant sugar pine seedlings at two community planting days. The first planting is Oct. 21 from 1-3pm. Meet at Rideout Community Center (740 Timberland Lane Tahoe City) to carpool to the planting site at Ward Creek. The next planting is Nov 3 from 10am-noon. Meet at Jewell Drive, off […]
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To the community, The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency would like to everyone who made TRPA’s Community Appreciation Day Open House and Lake Spirit Awards Ceremony such a great success last month including: Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District, Tahoe Science Consortium, Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Tahoe Resource Conservation District, Tahoe Catering Company, the Red Hut, our […]
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Lori Zoval, 47, of South Lake Tahoe was sentenced Oct. 12 to three years and eight months in prison for embezzling client money while employed as a licensed investment broker with a brokerage firm in Folsom. A hearing is set for Nov. 2 to determine the restitution amount. Lake Tahoe News first wrote about Zoval […]
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Organizations that are based in or serve the Truckee, Donner Summit, Squaw Valley, Alpine Meadows and North Shore of Lake Tahoe may submit applications to Tahoe Mountain Resorts Foundation to possibly receive a grant. The deadline to do so is 5pm Oct. 31. Recipients will be announced in January. A copy of the application and […]
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By Steven E.F. Brown, San Francisco Business Times Safeway Inc. finished selling 16 Genuardi’s stores for $80.4 million, and the $49 million of that left after taxes kept the company’s third quarter profit above that of the same quarter a year ago. Pleasanton-based Safeway earned $157 million on sales of $10.049 billion in the quarter […]
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Truckee Elementary School playground becomes the home of the much anticipated annual Pumpkin Patch on Oct. 20 from 10am-2:30pm. Admission is fee. Cost for event activities ranges from $1 to $4. If it rains or snows, the festivities will be moved inside. This ghoulish event includes a pumpkin patch, carnival games, pony rides, haunted and […]
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By Mark Bittman, New York Times I left Los Angeles at 4 in the morning, long before first light, and made it to Bakersfield — the land of oil derricks, lowriders and truck stops with Punjabi food — by 6. Ten minutes later, I was in the land of carrots. You know that huge pile […]
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By Robert Rodriguez, Fresno Bee A group of environmentalists is calling for tighter government restrictions on pesticide use, saying current regulations are creating a health risk among children. The Oakland-based Pesticide Action Network released a report Tuesday blaming pesticide use for a rising number of health problems among children, including developmental disabilities, autism and attention […]
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By Mandy Kendall I remember a lot of my chiropractic patients’ complaints centered around headaches and their causes varied from case to case. The majority of headache cases that I treated could be generally attributed to muscular and emotional tension. These were most commonly classified as tension type headaches and were, for the most part, […]
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I would like to encourage everyone buying costumes for Halloween to check the labels to make sure they are made of flame retardant materials. Materials made of 100 percent polyester are best suited for Halloween costumes. These costume materials may be purchased at most local fabric stores. The use of commercial flame retardant sprays is […]
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