By Mandy Kendall It’s hard sometimes when things don’t go quite the way you expected or wanted to remember the things that are going the right way or are just as you wanted. Even though it might not seem like it at times, many believe we are more fortunate now than at any other time […]
Read more
An afternoon of live music, food and drink is designed to raise money for the Lake Tahoe Community College Music Department to be able to buy instruments. The Lake Tahoe Community College Foundation and David Brock Music are putting on the Sept. 29 3pm event at a private residence in Stateline. Music will include performances […]
Read more
Elk Grove author R.J. Machado De Quevedo will be signing books Sept. 13 from8:30am-5pm at the North Tahoe Event Center, 8318 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach. In the supernatural mystery thriller “The Deceiver” college student Melanie Bishop finds herself stranded across the globe and thrust into the middle of an otherworldly battle that’s been raging […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed Becoming an advocate for the disabled wasn’t something David Kelly aspired to be. There is not one defining moment that led him on this 30-plus year mission. “I saw what I thought was people being treated unfairly,” Kelly said. That was in South Lake Tahoe in the early 1980s. The 70-year-old has […]
Read more
By Bonnie Rochman, Wall Street Journal A recent research program is testing an intriguing hypothesis: Can overweight children be taught to eat less by putting their favorite dishes right in front of them? Kerri Boutelle, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at UC San Diego’s School of Medicine, calls her willpower-enhancing technique “cue exposure.” The […]
Read more
Young actors are needed for the “Best Christmas Pageant Ever”. The production is a joint project between the Tahoe Tallac Association and Barton Health Festival of Tree and Lights. Auditions for the primary roles (9 years and older) will be at the Duke Theatre at Lake Tahoe Community College on Sept. 13 at 6pm. Some […]
Read more
Dandelion is a 2- or 3-year-old Australian terrier, a breed known for its intelligence and easygoing personality. He is energetic and fun and he loves people (including kids) and other dogs. Confident cats are OK too. His wiry fur is non-shedding, and he’s got a special underbite to keep you laughing. Dandy weighs about 10 […]
Read more
Bona Fide Books will launch poet Robert Krut’s award-winning collection “This Is the Ocean” with a reading and book signing on Oct. 11 at 7pm. The free event is part of the Lake Tahoe Community College’s Writers’ Series. Krut’s second collection, “This Is the Ocean” claimed the Meyers publisher’s 2012 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize, […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed SAN FRANCISCO – Who slept here? What were their communal meals like? What were there conversations? If only walls could talk. The Inn at the Presidio used to be where single officers would reside when this was an Army base. Today it is upscale lodging for civilians. Since the Army left in […]
Read more
By Jeffrey Sparshott, Wall Street Journal About one-third of U.S. households have ditched landline phones, driven by younger Americans relying on their cellphones, new Census Bureau data showed Thursday. Just under 71 percent of households had landlines in 2011, down from a little more than 96 percent 15 years ago. Cellphone ownership reached 89 percent, […]
Read more