By Anne Knowles Members of groups working to attract the Olympics to Lake Tahoe said they will continue efforts to attract major ski events to the area even though the 2022 Winter Olympics is now off the table. “It’s always been part of our original charter to attract national and international events in both alpine […]
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By Will Oremus, Slate If you want to make sure you’ll still be able to use the Internet when you wake up Monday morning, go to this website right now, click “Detect,” and follow the instructions from there. That’s the website of the DNS Changer Working Group (DCWG), set up by court order to fix […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit said it has begun work on the South Shore Fuel Reduction and Healthy Forest Restoration Project that will thin trees and brush on more than 10,000 acres of national forest system land from Cascade Lake to the Nevada state line. Crews are working on Highway 89 […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is working to eradicate, control, and contain known and future infestations of invasive weeds using chemical treatment in a project from July 9-12. Current project areas include the Tallac Historic Site and parking area, the corner of Al Tahoe and Pioneer Trail, Pope Beach, 64 Acres […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the July 6, 2012, Reno Gazette-Journal. What does it take to host the Olympics? Money is the first requirement, of course. And the old real estate rule about “location, location, location” would certainly apply, too. Near the top of the list, however, would be patience … a heckuva lot […]
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Update: The talk has been rescheduled. See comment below. Heart rate training for athletes is what cardiologist David Young will talk about July 18. The 6-7pm lecture is at Lake Tahoe Community College, 1 College Drive, South Lake Tahoe. For more information, call (530) 543.5537.
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A recent survey conducted in El Dorado County showed that fewer merchants are willing to sell tobacco products to minors compared to just two years ago. Of the 100 tobacco retailers surveyed countywide, only 11 stores sold tobacco products to youth, resulting in a sales rate of 11 percent. In March of 2010, a similar […]
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By Kathryn Reed TWIN BRIDGES – Mount Tallac from the South Shore is an impressive icon. But when it comes to looking at Tallac’s backside from the top of Ralston Peak, the grandeur pales in comparison to the razzle-dazzle Mother Nature provides from this vantage point. It’s so much better than being at the top […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee Nevada wildlife officials have issued the first ever commercial permit for crayfish harvest in Lake Tahoe, allowing the Tahoe Lobster Co. to go after some of the 220 million crustaceans living in the lake. The fishing is expected to be a boon for the economy, tourism, cuisine and lake clarity. […]
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By Dennis Overbye, New York Times ASPEN, Colo. — Physicists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a potential key to an understanding of why elementary particles have mass and indeed to the existence of diversity […]
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