Building on its June Go for Baroque kickoff series, TOCCATA will continue its 21-concert Summer MusicFest with a series that celebrates the 10th anniversary of Tahoe’s own Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. The first concert is July 14, 7pm at Shepherd of the Sierra Lutheran Church in Carson City (3680 Highway 395 South) and opens with […]
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Four people who possess a strong commitment to preserving Lake Tahoe were recognized this week at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Governing Board meeting. The Lake Spirit Awards honor people who have made progress at restoring Lake Tahoe. Awards were given in two categories, exemplary citizen and exemplary agency representative or environmental scientist. This year’s winners are: Exemplary […]
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By David Gelernter, Wall Street Journal No group needs social network software more than the elderly. We have built a frenzied society full of shriek TV, shriek music, shriek movies, shriek ads. Texting and phone-fondling go on ceaselessly. None of this welcomes the elderly, who were often lonely even before we turned up the volume […]
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By Steven Litvak My grandparents, Norman and Mary Litvak, founded the Santa Monica Homeopathic Pharmacy back in 1944, originally planning on selling the usual items found in drug stores at the time — medicine, alcohol, soda, cigarettes. Little did they know that within just a few years, they would be pioneering the first fully integrative […]
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By Larry Weitzman Never being a fan of the Azera, mainly because it was not attractive, has changed by about 180 degrees, with a new, fifth generation model. The prior generation, which was a follow on to the third generation known as the XG 300-350 (a car of real value), must have been designed by […]
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Union Pacific Railroad will install a safety fence along the downtown Truckee corridor from the McIver Train Depot Fence 1 Crossing roundabout to Bridge Street. Crossing railroad tracks in non-designated areas is considered trespassing, punishable by fines or arrest. Last year in California, 154 pedestrians were injured or killed while illegally crossing train tracks, including […]
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On June 17, 2015, Robert McClain Bellemore passed away at Carson Tahoe Hospital in the company of his family at the age of 76 and a half. Robert was born on Jan. 5, 1939, in Toledo, Ohio, to Capt. Douglas Hamilton Bellemore and Margaret Stewart Bellemore. While attending high school in Boston and Summit, N.J., […]
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By Steven Petrow, New York Times Leap Year Day, 1986: I drove up to a ramshackle house in Berkeley to pick out my first dog. It was a month before my two-year cancer anniversary, at which point I would be considered “cured,” and I was ready to make a commitment – to life, longevity and […]
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Wendy and Lena are a bonded mother and daughter, 5- and 3-years-old. Wendy has a beautiful brown and white striped coat with cinnamon bursts. Also a beauty, Lena is brown and white striped. They are both very friendly and love attention. These girls are indoor kitties and are litterbox trained. They were brought to the […]
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By Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times A study has found a simple way to significantly reduce teenage smoking: raise the tobacco sales age to 21. In 2005, Needham, Mass., did just that, while surrounding communities kept their age limit at 18. Researchers surveyed 16,000 high school students in Needham and 16 surrounding communities four times […]
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