By Susan Voyles, Reno Gazette-Journal Every week day since December, a Washoe County sheriff’s community service crew has worked the banks of the Truckee River, wrapping trees with chicken wire to protect them from beavers, cleaning up homeless camps and picking up other debris. Since December, they’ve wrapped 423 trees and removed 95 homeless camps, […]
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By Kathryn Reed DESOLATION WILDERNESS – Water. It’s going to be the common denominator for all hikes in and around the Lake Tahoe area for a while. And that’s a good thing when waterfalls are involved. Rumbling water is a constant sound on the trek from the Eagle Falls parking lot to Eagle Lake. Sometimes […]
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By Lance Williams, California Watch Mono Lake is the second-largest lake in California – a gorgeous, otherworldly expanse of aquamarine saltwater in the high desert east of Yosemite National Park. Its very existence is a modern environmental success story. As late as 1984, the lake was condemned to become a 65-square-mile salt flat, as the […]
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Ball handling and basketball shooting camps will be at Kahle Community Center in Stateline June 27-July 1 from 9am-4pm. This is for boys and girls in grades K-10. Cost ranges between $125 and $265. For more information, call Gil Llewellyn at (310) 903.6473 or email coachgil@advantagebasketball.com.
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CalFire is suspending burn permits in Amador County and on the western slope of El Dorado County beginning July 1 at 8am. This does not apply to the Lake Tahoe Basin. Call (530) 543.2600 for burning regulations in the basin. Reminders for safe burning: — Keep all piles no larger than 4 feet by 4 […]
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By Oliver Renick, Bloomberg Football accounted for 57 percent of trauma-related sports deaths among youth, many that would have been prevented if athletes with head injuries had been kept off the field, said researchers who analyzed 30 years of data. The report, which reviewed information from a U.S. registry of 1,827 sudden deaths of young […]
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Operation Dry Water is a national weekend of boating under the influence detection and enforcement aimed at reducing the number of alcohol and drug-related accidents and fatalities and fostering a stronger and more visible deterrent to alcohol and drug use on the water. It is always the weekend before Fourth of July. Officials will be […]
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Thursday Night All-Comer’s Track & Field Meet runs June 23-July 28, 5-8:30pm. It is for ages 2-90. The cost is $5 — free for ages under 9. Races are at South Tahoe Middle School. For more information, go online.
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By Kathryn Reed It’s hard to know if more should be read into the National Weather Service in Nevada declaring this Hazardous Weather Awareness Week. The reality is creeks, rivers and streams in and around the Lake Tahoe Basin are rising. Even Lake Tahoe is rising. The threat is so real the Weather Service in […]
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The Carson Valley Chamber and Visitors Authority and Bike the West’s 4th Annual Tour of the Carson Valley – Barbecue & Ice Social is June 26. It starts and finishes at Mormon Station State Historic Park in Genoa. This is a kick-off to summer and a celebration of the cycling culture and more of a […]
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