By Rob Baedeker, Newsweek There’s a strange woman in our shower. She and her boyfriend arrived late last night, and she’s slipped into our bathroom, which adjoins the office where my wife, Laura, and I are working. We can hear her flossing. “Did you meet them?” Laura whispers. “Are they nice?” I don’t know if […]
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South Lake Tahoe lost a dear friend on Christmas Day. Arta Ann (Larsen) Smith, better known as Artie, left this world on Dec. 25, 2011, after a long, courageous battle with heart disease and ultimately a brown recluse spider bite. Born in Tremonton, Utah, on Oct. 16, 1940, to Myron Tanner Hansen and Arta Josephine […]
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Publisher’s note: This is reprinted from the June 1988 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. Her deep penetrating whistle could be heard for miles across the water, echoing against the surrounding mountains. Her arrival was the highlight of the day as she brought visitors, supplies, news, mail and, above all, excitement to each community at whose […]
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By Kathryn Reed One day SnowGlobe might legitimately be used in the same sentence of Woodstock or Day on the Green. More than 9,000 people – mostly younger than 30 – swayed, danced, bounced and moved to the sounds of bands like their parents’ and grandparents’ generations did decades ago. Only this music isn’t rock […]
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In spring 2011, local mountain guide Adrian Ballinger became the first person to summit three 8,000-meter peaks within a three-week period. Ballinger summitted Mount Everest (29,029 feet) twice in two weeks, first while fixing ropes to the summit with an elite group of the world’s strongest sherpa, and then again while guiding a group of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Three-foot wide aisles with shelves packed from floor to ceiling are not the ideal shopping conditions – for consumer or storeowner. That’s why Jon McElroy is moving out of the location Grass Roots has been in since 1973 and moving across the driveway to the old Blockbuster building. With 1,200-square-feet of retail […]
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By Janice Lloyd, USA Today More research shows that even small amounts of aerobic exercise help lower coronary heart disease risk, according to a review published Monday in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association. The mega-study is part of a growing body of research showing that some physical activity provides health benefits — […]
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Rudolph and his buddies Prancer, Donner and Vixen are all biding their time at the shelter, playing and generally acting very cute until their new families come to adopt them. There are five kittens at the South Shore animal shelter, plus several other adult cats who are all hoping the holiday season brings them good […]
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By Mel Shields, Sacramento Bee New Year’s Eve in Northern Nevada casinos is usually a pretty good barometer of the state of the economy. In prosperous and optimistic times, major stars perform for tickets prices of $100 and up. When the outlook is less rosy, the prices come down. Few shows this year have high […]
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By Sharon Begley, Newsweek By all rights, Shari Baker should have said her final goodbyes years ago. In 2005, more than a year after three doctors dismissed a lump under her arm as a harmless cyst, she was diagnosed with stage IV (metastatic) breast cancer, which takes the lives of at least 80 percent of […]
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