EyeC Books is sponsoring Take A Book Home Day at the South Lake Tahoe branch library on Aug. 10 form 10am-2pm. Each attendee may choose two books to take home for free. The library is at 1000 Rufus Allen Blvd.
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Learn how to keep your family and property safe from the threat of fire. Representatives from the East Fork Fire and Paramedic District, Nevada Division of Forestry, state Fire Marshal’s Office, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, Citizens Emergency Response Team, Genoa Volunteer Fire Department, and Douglas County Search and Rescue will distribute free […]
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UNR in cooperation with the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office is sending a team of archaeologists to excavate the site of one of Nevada’s most important early hospitals. St. Mary Louise Hospital in Virginia City opened in 1876 and served the mining community until the early 20th century. Sarah Cowie, assistant professor of anthropology in […]
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Doug Stoup plans to circumnavigate Lake Tahoe on a standup paddleboard July 31 in less than 24 hours. He will start at Waterman’s Landing in Carnelian Bay and finish there. Stoup is paddling to raise money and awareness for High Fives Foundation and the Ice Axe Foundation. The Ice Axe Foundation is an educational 501(3)C […]
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Kim Wyatt, local publisher and editor, is giving at talk at the South Lake Tahoe library about “Tahoe Blues: Short Lit on Life at the Lake” and other forthcoming events at Bona Fide Books. She will have books available for purchase. The event is Aug. 29 at 6:30pm. The library is at 1000 Rufus Allen […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee The campaign to establish a state lottery nearly 30 years ago adopted “schools win too” as its theme. And it worked. Voters responded because education is the single most popular category of public spending, even though in reality, the lottery provides schools with little or nothing in extra money. This […]
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By Elisa Tong In the fight against cancer, new drugs, technologies and ongoing research are essential. But nothing would make a greater impact against the disease than eliminating tobacco use and exposure. Tobacco leads the list of causes of preventable death, well ahead of obesity, alcohol consumption and handguns. Tobacco is implicated in 11 types […]
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By Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times RENO — Apple? The outdoors? Bowling? As Reno, that other city in Nevada, seeks to move beyond an economy and a downtown dominated for decades by mammoth casinos, it is grasping at various possibilities that have little to do with the industry that defined it. Apple announced in late […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe will definitely be down to one pot club by Aug. 20, with one of the owners staying in town to run a different business. Matt Triglia on Monday withdrew his challenge to being shut down and agreed to a slew of conditions that allow him to operate Patient2Patient medical […]
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Two applicants came in at the deadline to join the other four who have applied to fill the vacancy on the Lake Tahoe Unified School District board. Mark Bissonnette (attorney) and Mary Kortge (homemaker) are the latecomers. The other vying for the spot are Barbara Bannar (former board member, homemaker), Kathy Haven (educator/small business owner), […]
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