The 2nd annual Adventure Sports Week Tahoe (June 15-24) includes a series of mountain biking events. The Lake Tahoe Mountain Bike Race is June 16. It kicks off at 8am and has a 4- and 8-hour race that participants can engage in solo or on a team of two, three or four people. The Tahoe […]
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The Tahoe Rim Trail Association and REI in Reno have developed a Family Camping 101 program to teach families the basics of car camping, including: camp cooking, pitching a tent and gear demonstrations. There will be campfire activities and camping games for the whole family. S’mores, hot chocolate and coffee will be provided by the […]
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Jonelle Bright from the Tahoe Resource Conservation District will give a lecture June 21 at 10:30am at the Tahoe Maritime Museum on aquatic invasive species. She will talk about how they affect Lake Tahoe, what is being done to prevent spread of AIS, and the history of the boat inspection program. The lecture in Homewood […]
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By Bill Gabbert, Wildfire Today Following the president’s signing June 13 of the bill that waived the 30-day notification period for informing Congress about new air tanker contracts, the U.S. Forest Service announced it has awarded new exclusive use contracts for seven additional air tankers. Four companies will provide three next generation air tankers in […]
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An Auburn woman was taken into custody Thursday morning by South Lake Tahoe police officers after a 10-hour standoff. Jennifer Lynn Trezona had barricaded herself in a room at the Pine Cone Acre Motel on Emerald Bay Road in South Lake Tahoe the night before. Police throughout the region on June 13 had received notice […]
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By Kathryn Reed Cooked radishes? Yes. Really? Yes. OK. I decided to take Joy’s suggestion. After all, she had seen it done on the Food Network, so it must be a good idea. To me, radishes are to eat as part of a relish tray or in a salad. It had never crossed my mind […]
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• Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival at Sand Harbor is putting on “The Gentlemen of Verona” July 13-Aug. 26. • Squaw Valley Fine Arts & Crafts Festival is June 30 and July 1, 11am-5pm at the village. • Mountain Lake Cleaning, which just opened, is a family owned business that focuses on providing environmentally safe cleaning […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee The state budget that the Legislature will enact this week will assume that half of its deficit will be covered by voter approval of new income and sales taxes next November. However, it’s looking steadily less like a reasonable assumption and increasingly like just another in a long string of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Unified School District is essentially creating parallel budgets because of items on the November ballot that would affect the bottom line. But the reality is the board will be asked at its June 26 meeting to approve just one budget for the 2012-13 school year. CFO Deb Yates on June […]
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By Kathryn Reed The morning of my lesson there is a Tweet from Tahoe Fly Fishing: “Rainbow, Brown, Brook or Cutthroat.” At least I know these are all kinds of trout. The problem is I think one fish looks like the next. Will it matter? The day after my lesson the Tweet is: “Dry fly […]
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