By Kathryn Reed Walking in the front door it’s like entering brand new doctors’ offices. Gone is the cramped, dingy reception area. Beyond the waiting area are exam rooms that while sterile in a good way, are welcoming. And gone is the name. Barton Community Clinic is now Barton Community Health Center. “It’s a better […]
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By Kathryn Reed An air quality station that is going to be installed at Lake Tahoe Community College by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is also going to have an educational component to it. The college board at its meeting last week heard a presentation by a member of the bi-state regulatory agency about the […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee In the 375-page El Dorado County grand jury transcript of The People v. Raymond James Nutting, a prosecutor took aim at two checks that an official from an obscure local resource district co-signed on behalf of another agency. Deputy District Attorney James Clinchard asserted the state fire prevention grant checks […]
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By Kathryn Reed If the sportsbooks are right, there is going to be a repeat winner at this week’s American Century Championship golf tournament. Dan Quinn, who has the won the tournament five times – including last year, is favored this year with the odds at 7:2. Seven-time winner Rick Rhoden is behind him with […]
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By Felicity Barringer, New York Times The death of 19 firefighters in Arizona recently highlights what has become a fact of life in the West: Every summer, smoke fills the big skies yet people continue to build in the places that burn most. More people live in these areas, and many balk at controls on […]
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By Maria Medina, CBS-13 Residents say they’re being forced to clean up the mess more than a week after a fireworks show at Lake Tahoe. For more than a week, Joan Truxler’s filled bag after bag with fireworks debris left over from south Lake Tahoe’s Fourth of July show. The first people to alert her […]
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By Kathryn Reed A 95-year-old house with a garden that had been certified by the National Wildlife Federation as a wildlife habitat and is on the national registry, a garden that flows into a golf course, one full of veggies, another with antiques that have become yard art to house flowers, some in full shade, […]
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By Jeff Barnard, AP GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Shane Krogen has no trouble finding retirees willing to spend a week in the wilderness grubbing out rocks and swinging a pick or shovel to bring a hiking trail back up to national standards. The hard part is getting the U.S. Forest Service to come up with […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – It was a bit like being on sensory overload. Endorphins are going with each rotation of the pedal. Sounds of the river rippling and people playing on it are inviting. The aroma of pines and other foliage make breathing deep desirable. The scenery – well, it’s breathtaking and challenges […]
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By Ron Winslow, Wall Street Journal Americans are living longer than they did two decades ago, but they are losing ground on key measures of health to people in other developed nations, a study shows. The findings, from the most comprehensive analysis of the health of the U.S. population in more than 15 years, show […]
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