By Leslie Kaufman, New York Times BOSTON — Sitting on an artificial mangrove island in the middle of the ray and shark “touch tank,” Lindsay Jordan, a staff member at the New England Aquarium, explained the rays’ eating habits as children and their parents trailed fingers through the water. “Does anyone know how we touch […]
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• To celebrate “The Godfather’s” 40th anniversary, there is a Monopoly board game out – and it includes Lake Tahoe properties. • Tahoe Prosperity Center has hired Mone´ Haen to be CEO. • Fire Fest, presented by Kiwanis Club of Lake Tahoe, is Sept. 29 from 10am to 3pm at Lake Tahoe Airport. • The […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College’s board of trustees gathered information Tuesday night from the public about SnowGlobe. The five are expected to vote Sept. 11 on if and how they want to be involved with the three-day music festival. A representative from the city of South Lake Tahoe gave an overview of plans that were agreed […]
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Men of Worth is the music duo of Donnie MacDonald and James Keigher. They bring their talent and authentic Scottish and Irish musical heritage to Valhalla’s Boathouse Theatre on the South Shore on Aug. 30 at 7:30pm. Several of MacDonald’s songs come from his mother’s poetry and from Hebridean crofters’ airs. The musicians, who met […]
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To the community, Live Violence Free, formerly the South Lake Tahoe Women’s Center, would like to extend a thank you to Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe for enabling us to conduct the inaugural Girls Empowerment Retreat. Thanks to a grant from the Soroptimist group we were able to plan and execute two sessions of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Another deadline looms next week in the multi-million dollar South Shore transportation lawsuit, with a decision possible in November to dismiss or have the case litigated. Fairfield-based MV Transportation, which once ran the BlueGo bus system, sued the nonprofit South Tahoe Area Transit Authority in 2010 for a number of reasons; most […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee Tahoe National Forest officials are advising visitors to act quickly if they want to secure a campsite for the Labor Day holiday. “This is one of the big weekends of the summer, and campgrounds, picnic sites and trail systems are expected to be busy,” forest spokeswoman Ann Westling said […]
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By Reuters Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers have reached a deal to raise public employees’ retirement ages, have them pay more into their pension accounts, and cap retirement payments in a vast overhaul of the state’s pension system that he says will save $30 billion. Union leaders panned the deal between Brown and fellow Democrats […]
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Just as the Placer County sheriff’s deputies ramped up today’s search efforts to find a missing Clipper Gap man, the body of Gary Howe was found by searchers within a half-mile of his home at about 9:40am. Howe was first reported missing Sunday night by a caretaker. A large-scale search and rescue effort began Sunday […]
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