By Berny Dohrmann In survey after survey, meetings get knocked by everyone from employees to senior executives as being among the biggest waste of work hours. In one poll, by Office Team, 45 percent of senior executives said their firms would be more productive if they banned all meetings at least one day a week. […]
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By Robert S. Wood BAJA, Mexico – A winter visit to the tip of Baja in Mexico offers the quickest, easiest access I know to warm semi-tropical ocean beaches. Deanne and I like to visit shortly after Thanksgiving, when the water is still swimming pool warm — October can be too hot — before the […]
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By Katy Savage, Vermont Standard HARTLAND, Vt. — Inside Lauren Anderson’s home, there is a picture of eight grown children hanging underneath the stairwell. Two of the children in the photograph made it to a national snowboarding championship, another was a top slopestyle competitor, another won gold in snowboard cross at the Winter X Games […]
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Award-winning author Colum McCann will give a reading Jan. 9 at 5pm at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village. McCann is the author of six novels and two collections of short stories. His most recent novel, “Transatlantic”, was long-listed for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. There will be reception at 4:30pm, with the talk from […]
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William Collins, an internationally recognized climate change scientist and a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace prize, will be the keynote speaker at Operation Sierra Storm Meteorologist’s Conference Jan. 8-10. Other speakers during the three-day event include: Duane Waliser, chief scientist of the Earth Science […]
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By Teri Mizuhara Across the nation more than 236,000 house fires occur annually and they peak in January due to the winter weather. Many of these fires are preventable. Here are some key things you can do to reduce your chance of becoming a statistic: The No. 1 cause of house fires (33 percent) are […]
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Barton Memorial Hospital’s first baby of 2014 is the son of a hospital employee. Joshua Tapia-Hernandez was born Jan. 2 at 5:24pm. He weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces and was 18-inches long. Adriana and Abraham Tapia are well versed in the baby department. They arrived Thursday afternoon and within a few hours Joshua arrived. The […]
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By Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times Is it time to say goodbye to the hotel minibar? A recent survey by the travel website TripAdvisor.com found that the hotel minibar was the least important amenity for U.S. travelers. Only 21 percent of travelers ranked the mini-bar as an important amenity, compared to 89 percent who called […]
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By Nanci Hellmich, USA Today Many women have a “quiet fear” that they won’t have enough money for retirement, but they can take several steps to make sure that doesn’t happen. “The key is to continue earning throughout retirement and to find ways to create income for life,” says Donna Phelan, 62, who has worked […]
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By Janelle Wetzstein, Argus-Courier No parent wants to admit their child is using drugs. No parent wants to accept that drugs contributed to their child’s death. And no parent wants to think that if only their child stuck with a friend, they might still be alive. But in the past year, Petaluma’s Kevin and Kim […]
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