Longtime South Lake Tahoe resident Phyllis Ann Clifton passed from this life on Feb. 9. She was 73. Phyllis was born on Sept. 16, 1940, in Modesto to Annabelle and Ernest Farrell. When she was 8-years-old, Phyllis moved from Hickman to Portola Valley. As a teenager she attended Menlo-Atherton High School; and later studied to […]
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Prize-winning, bestselling writer, producer, and cartoonist Chris Millis will be at Sierra Nevada College on Feb. 21. He adapted his first novel “Small Apartments” into a feature film that stars Matt Lucas, Billy Crystal, Johnny Knoxville, and James Caan. The 7-9pm reading is free at the college’s Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, Room 139-141. Millis […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College has a slew of art exhibits going on. Through March 14 is the UNR MFA Student Exhibit in the Haldan Art Gallery. Ginny Schankerman’s “Seeking the Elephant” is in the Foyer Gallery through March 22. Tahoe Area High School Art Exhibit is in the Student Gallery until March 22. The college’s […]
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By Christian E. Megrelis Emotional isolation is a growing problem, with more than one out of three adults aged 45 and older describing themselves as chronically lonely, up from one out of five a decade earlier. The contributing factors are easy to identify: high unemployment; marriage rate at a historic low; increased reliance on technology […]
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Whiplash is so lonely, she is the only dog at the shelter right now. She is a happy, bouncy, playful 1-year-old poodle mix who loves everyone. Whiplash came to Tahoe from a Central Valley shelter where her days were numbered. More dogs will arrive Wednesday from other shelters, and we hope Whiplash will have been […]
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By Kathryn Reed Diet, exercise and body weight are critical factors when it comes to dealing with cholesterol. David Young, a doctor with Barton cardiology, outlined the steps people can take to prevent getting high cholesterol as well as what to do when the numbers are above a good range. “It is one of the […]
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By Susan Wood TRUCKEE – Kate Wormington knew she bought into the right ski resort housing venture when she surrendered part of this season to nursing a knee injury — and it wasn’t from skiing. The San Carlos woman recently came up to her four-bedroom, ski-in, ski-out abode that is attached to the Ritz-Carlton Lake […]
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Placer County libraries have expanded their pool of books by participating in Zip Books, a program supported by the California State Library that allows librarians to pull from the “shelves” of Amazon.com when a book requested by the public is not available at their library. When someone requests a book or audiobook that that the […]
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By Jeff Gorton Nearly 150 million Americans will file federal income tax returns this year and, unfortunately, many will be shelling out much more of their hard-earned money than necessary. With the ridiculous complexity of our tax code, I can understand how the average person might want to put off doing their homework, but that’ll […]
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By Wray Herbert, Huffington Post I went to college long before the era of laptops, so I learned to take notes the old-fashioned way: ink on paper. But that does not mean my note-taking system was simple. Indeed it was an intricate hieroglyphic language, in which asterisks and underscoring and check marks and exclamation points […]
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