By Los Angeles Times Nearly three years after Jaycee Dugard was rescued from the ramshackle compound where she gave birth to two daughters while being held captive, she is still learning how to be a free woman. “My growth has not happened overnight, and every day brings new challenges and choices that I have to […]
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By Cal Thomas One of many things left out of the film “The Iron Lady” was Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s warnings on the effects a single currency would have on the economies of European nations. Thatcher’s premonitions place her among the great political prophets of all time. On the single currency, Peter Oborne, a columnist […]
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By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times Three of California’s highest-ranking, most influential educators announced within the span of a few weeks that they would be leaving their posts, creating a vacuum in the state’s higher education system at a time of unprecedented challenges. The impending departures of Charles B. Reed and Jack Scott, chancellors of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Disturbances are still visible, but High Meadow no longer looks like the construction site it has for the past two summers. Instead, the meadow is a verdant green that if on this particular Sunday weren’t so chilly, would be inviting to lounge in. It looks ideal for Frisbee. On a hot summer […]
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Motorists are advised to plan ahead and factor in additional travel time for Saturday morning on westbound Interstate 80 near the Colfax area. All Interstate 80 westbound traffic will be detoured at the Eagle Lake off-ramp June 16 from 5am-1pm. A contractor is scheduled to replace the bridge approach slabs. This work is part of […]
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• Bing Travel lists Lake Tahoe as one of the world’s most beautiful lakes. Here are the others. • See how Tahoe Pipe Club has revolutionized the Frisbee and Secchi disk industries by combining for the first time these instruments into one disk. • Placer County Board of Supervisors hired David Boesh to be the […]
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South Lake Tahoe’s Community Service Department is offering summer camps for youth and teens now through Aug. 24. Camp Tadaka is designed for grades kindergarten to 8th-grade and is operated from 7:30am-6:30pm daily. Tahoe Outdoor Adventure Camps is designed for ages 12-16. Nine adventure themed camps over the course of the summer include: geocaching, river […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee The federal Bureau of Land Management announced this week that fire restrictions are in effect for all public lands managed by the bureau’s Mother Lode Field Office. Included are approximately 230,000 acres of BLM-managed lands in El Dorado, Placer, Nevada, Yuba, Amador, Sacramento, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Stanislaus, Sutter and Mariposa counties. […]
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By Melissa Clark, New York Times Drinking seasonal cocktails used to mean manhattans in the winter and gin and tonics in the summer. Then a decade ago, mixologists started infusing the likes of lemon verbena and butternut squash into spirits, taking the notion of seasonal cocktails to a more literal level. Now, you’re just as […]
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Tangled Roots Writing in Truckee is putting on a class called Poetry: Play with Language. You don’t need to be a poet or understand poetry to take this workshop – you will improve your writing in any genre. The class is June 21 from 5-8pm. Cost is $35. For more information, call Karen Terrey at […]
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