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Woman bit by dog while walking at West Slope lake

El Dorado County Animal Services is searching for the owner of an all-white male pit bull that bit a woman Sept. 10 at approximately 6:30pm while she was walking on the trail at Jenkinson Lake in Sly Park. The incident occurred when the dog, on a long leash and jogging with its owner, approached the […]

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Alberta Crook — 1926-2012

Alberta Crook passed away Sept. 5, 2012, 16 days shy of her 86 birthday, in her beloved Maui, with close friends by her side. Born and raised in the Los Angeles area, Alberta was stricken with polio and spent part of her teenage years in an iron lung. The impact of this dreadful disease affected […]

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Food waste being repurposed

By Alice Park, Time Nearly 1.5 billion tons. That’s how much spoiled and uneaten food people around the world throw out each year. In the U.S., roughly 40 percent of the food supply is wasted, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). But that kind of trash could soon become a lot more useful. […]

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Stop making excuses about why you are overeating

By Mandy Kendall We just had a wonderful weekend with a houseful of guests. However, besides hours of fun and reminiscing, there was also quite a bit of indulging. When you are celebrating and entertaining it seems so much easier to say “oh what can it hurt just this once”. So now we need to […]

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Blue Ribbon award nominees being sought

Eight awards will be presented at the 5th annual Blue Ribbon Awards Ceremony & Dinner at Embassy Suites on Nov. 15. Award categories include the Geotourism, Tourism, Experience, Entrepreneur, two Customer Service awards, and the large and small Green Business awards. Nominations for this Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce event are being taken […]

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Opinion: Hoffman only viable candidate for judge

By Stephen W. Valentine The day after the primary election I was contacted by representatives of each of the candidates slated for the run off in November each asking me to endorse their respective candidates. Having spent five months touring the county and meeting so many wonderful people and listening to my two opponents talk, […]

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Clarity emerging in future of STHS softball field

By Kathryn Reed “When I took this job three years ago, I was told it was called the Field of Dreams. I think it’s a Field of Nightmares.” That is what Steve Kolesnik, South Tahoe High School softball coach, told the Lake Tahoe Unified School District board of education Sept. 11. While it may never […]

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Tahoe Mountain News publisher frantic to find missing mom

By Stephen Baxter, Santa Cruz Sentinel SANTA CRUZ – After three weeks of searches on the sides of Highway 101 and surrounding roads in five counties, Taylor Flynn has not given up hope of finding his mother. Flynn, the 49-year-old publisher of the Tahoe Mountain News in South Lake Tahoe, was one of the last […]

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Heller wants House to lead on poker legislation

By Karoun Demirjian, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — Ever since online poker legislation faltered and failed in late 2010, the prevailing wisdom has been that the road to successful passage leads though the Senate, via the collective efforts of Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Sens. Dean Heller and Jon Kyl. But on Monday evening, […]

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Truckee receives chunk of cash for bike trail projects

The town of Truckee has receive $654,750 in funding from the Bicycle Transportation Account for the Brockway Road Trail. The Brockway Road Trail would connect two existing Class 1 trail segments which currently terminate at the Truckee River Regional Park (Brockway Road/Estates Drive intersection) and at The Rock (approximately 250 feet northwest of the Martis […]

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