Mirella is a 10-month-old tabby who is quite beautiful. She likes other cats, and especially likes dogs. Mirella needs a special home. She has a birth defect which has left her with odd eyes. She may go blind as she gets older, but right now she is quite active and loves to play. Mirella is […]
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By Kathryn Reed Fifteen South Tahoe Middle School students proved their generation could express themselves in more than 140 characters. And they can do so about serious topics. Soroptimist International Tahoe Sierra honored the students last week at the annual Writing Festival awards breakfast. These aren’t all overachievers. Some are English learners, other are average […]
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By Jeremy Miller It’s finally here! The Oscar season draws to a close Sunday night, with many of us sitting and watching Hollywood’s elite gather for the 86th Academy Awards. Of the last five years, this year is by and far the most unpredictable. This year we have an extremely widespread variety, especially when it […]
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Tahoe-Truckee local Jen Gurecki will share what it’s like to work hard and play hard in Kenya. Her latest adventure – Summit for Our Sisters – took her up Mount Kenya, an ancient, extinct volcano that boasts the second highest peak on the continent of Africa, towering more than 16,000 feet. With 12 glaciers that […]
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South Lake Tahoe, Meyers and Sierra-at-Tahoe will celebrate the South Shore’s three Olympians with a party on March 15. Jamie Anderson and Maddie Bowman, who won gold for snowboarding slopestyle and freeskiing halfpipe, respectively, and Hannah Teter who placed fourth in snowboarding halfpipe, all live in Meyers and ride for Sierra-at-Tahoe. A procession will take […]
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“Still Life with Iris” chronicles a young girl’s quest to regain her memory, her past, and with them, her home. It is a fantastical adventure that centers on a young girl’s search for a simple thing: home. The play comes to Lake Tahoe Community College in March. Rather than using all adult actors for the […]
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By Drew Grossman, Outside Your supplement isn’t just worthless — it’s detrimental to performance. A recently published study by the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences shows that taking large doses of vitamins C and E may blunt the effects of endurance training by interfering with cellular adaptations to exercise. The study tracked 54 athletic men […]
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By Dominique Mosbergen, Huffington Post The exercise habits of the average American are appalling, according to a study recently published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. For the study, scientists tracked the activity of 2,600 people for two years. They found that obese women average a mere 11 seconds a day of vigorous exercise (that’s about an […]
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Domingo and Carrerras are beautiful black smoke-Tiffany mix brothers, about 9 months old. Their fur is unusual; long and with many shades of black and gray. They are full of personality and are quite playful. They must be adopted together. Domingo and Carrerras are neutered, microchipped, and vaccinated. They are at the El Dorado County […]
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By Jeremy Miller Well here’s the newest installment in the “Riddick” franchise. At the helm of course we have Vin Diesel sided by Katee Sackhoff, Jordi Molla, Matt Nable, and Karl Urban. After being deserted by his newly adopted Necromonger pals Riddick gets back to his roots and rediscovers his more savage side in order […]
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