El Dorado County Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Division is offering back-to-school immunizations for eligible children beginning school this fall. Public health can provide all childhood vaccinations required for school entry, as well as vaccinations that are recommended to keep children healthy. Schools are required to verify each child’s immunization record to make […]
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Local outdoor enthusiast and Opal Ultra Nightclub’s disc jockey David Aaron had a devastating parachute landing accident June 22. Aaron sustained multiple injuries, including injury to his spinal cord and broken back, for which he needed eight vertebrae fused. He is diagnosed as an “incomplete paraplegic” and recovering at Renown Rehabilitation Center in Reno, where […]
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Bona Fide Books awards annually the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize for an unpublished collection of poems. The winner will receive publication, 10 copies, a $500 cash award, and a reading at Lake Tahoe. Submissions are being taken until Aug. 31. For more info, go online.
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James and Tulip are best friends who need to be adopted together. James is a pug-chihuahua mix. Tulip is a chihuahua-dashchund mix. They play all day long; they like tug of war, chase, and hide and seek. They are both house trained if they get outside often enough. They love to cuddle and […]
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By Kim Wyatt STATELINE – Entering the Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys on Aug. 2, I was greeted by statuesque geishas, wigs in every color of the rainbow, and a phalanx of tutus, tails and spiked brassieres—clearly this wasn’t a Creedence concert. At Lady Gaga’s Tahoe debut, a diverse gender-bending crowd posed and pranced […]
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By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay, now has a law to his name. It’s pretty modest. But when President Obama recently signed a McClintock bill transferring federal land to an Indian tribe in California’s El Dorado County, it was a milestone of sorts. The one-page bill transferring 40.8 […]
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By Kathryn Reed NEW YORK – Voices overlap. Memories of Sept. 11, 2001, echo through the chamber. The chaos, the uncertainty, the fear, the loss. “Regardless of where you were, you were there at that moment,” says one person. The 9/11 Memorial Museum that opened in May is a collection of stories from that day […]
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By Cindy Krischer Goodman, Miami Herald As the temperature rises and the day lengthens, summer slowdown creeps into almost every workplace. But this summer, a growing number of professionals are strategically using the downtime to rebalance. Experts estimate that when vacation mindset seeps into offices during summer, productivity slips by as much as 20 percent. […]
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By Jeremy Miller “Lucy” is the latest from writer/director Luc Besson (“The Family”, “The Fifth Element”) starring Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, and Min-sik Choi. Lucy (Johansson) is an American girl caught on the wrong side of a deal in Japan. What starts as a menial delivery of goods to the upper echelon of the Japanese […]
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By Candace Taylor, Wall Street Journal Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison has sold one of his Glenbrook properties for $20.35 million, according to public records. The sale closed in mid-July and names the buyer as a California-based entity called Residential Property Mgmt LLC. The property is one of three parcels Ellison had listed together for $28.5 […]
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