Have you ever wanted to write a novel and not known how to begin? Or maybe you’ve written fiction and you’d like help polishing your manuscript? Regardless of where you are in your writing process, South Lake Tahoe author Todd Borg is putting on a writing workshop that may be helpful. “The Hook, the Twist, […]
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By Bob Thomas, AP Eydie Gorme, a popular nightclub and television singer as a solo act and as a team with her husband, Steve Lawrence, died Aug. 10. She was 84. Gorme and Lawrence were regulars at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe South Shore Room in the 1980s. Gorme, who also had a huge solo hit in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Writing a coming of age book is no easy feat. Writing a book with the main character as the opposite sex is not easy. Writing compelling dialogue and description — again, not easy. Heather E. Pauly was able to do all of the above in “Changing Strides.” And while many authors have […]
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By Kathryn Reed CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA – Nine wineries in three days – all by foot. A 17-mile ride instead of a drive. Oh, and that big expansive body of water known as the Pacific Ocean. Monterey County is one of California’s premier wine regions. The climate varies depending on if one is close to the coast […]
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Placer County Public Health officials are tell people to take precautions against West Nile virus, a preventable, mosquito-borne disease that can infect humans. The disease is typically spread when a mosquito bites an infected bird, then bites a human. While most people who are infected with the virus will not become ill, in certain populations […]
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By Peggy Bourland-Madison INCLINE VILLAGE – The annual Oscar de la Renta and Saks Fifth Avenue Lake Tahoe benefit for the League to Save Lake Tahoe is a tradition that started in 1969. San Francisco-Tahoe philanthropist and socialite Diana Dollar Knowles conspired with a few of her notable friends, some still very involved today, to […]
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By Trevor Wilson An alarming Gallup poll published earlier this year is still sending shockwaves throughout the business community: Most American workers either hate their jobs or don’t care one way or the other about them. Less than a third of Americans are actively engaged in their work, meaning they’re passionate about it, enthusiastic and […]
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By Robin Wilkey, Huffington Post When it comes to dealing with mosquitoes, one generally has two options: drench yourself in potentially harmful (and often ineffective) repellant or suck it up. But California-based start-up Olfactor Laboratories has developed a sticker that the company claims can make wearers virtually invisible to mosquitoes. Dubbed the Kite Patch, the […]
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Wyland Gallery in South Lake Tahoe will host an artist’s reception and sculpting demonstration by international bronze artist June Towill Brown on Aug. 17-18 from 2-6pm. Brown will be finishing her bear series which is a spin-off of the life-size showcase brown bear that sits in the roundabout in Incline Village at the base of […]
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By Ian Schwartz, CBS-13 Kids who have suffered severe burns are getting special treatment this week at a firefighters’ burn camps along the shores of Lake Tahoe. Camp is a great way for kids to get away from the city and be around nature. But at this camp, it’s a chance for kids to get […]
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