To the community, Bread & Broth, a nonprofit all volunteer organization, serves evening meals on Mondays at St. Theresa Church Grace Hall and Fridays at the Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church. B&B is funded by our generous donors, jar collections at local businesses and our Adopt A Day of Nourishment program. On April 13, Sierra […]
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By Larry Weitzman At the April 15 special meeting of the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors’ meeting, whose main purpose was a CAO budget update presentation to address the continuing county annual deficits, the operative word was “bloated.” During the meeting CAO Pamela Knorr admitted that the budget was bloated and she said it […]
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By Brendan Nyhan In a number of states, parents are allowed to opt out of legal requirements to have their children vaccinated before entering school by claiming a “personal belief” or “philosophical” exemption. These provisions have raised a great deal of concern since the Disneyland measles outbreak, including in California, where it began. Unfortunately, the […]
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To the community, Tahoe Arts Project would like to extend a tremendous thank you to our Dancing with the Tahoe Stars participants and to the community for making our biggest fund-raiser such an enormous success. The event was lively and entertaining and the audience amazing. The funds raised will enable TAP to continue to bring […]
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By Joanne Marchetta UC Davis and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency recently released their yearly water clarity readings for Lake Tahoe. The good news: Mid-lake water clarity improved significantly in 2014, with an average reading of 77.8 feet. That’s 7.5 feet greater than the average reading for 2013, and almost 14 feet greater than the 64.1 […]
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By Rian Bosse I wore football pads, real pads, like the pros wear, for the first time when I was 12 years old, walking out onto the practice field at the start of my seventh-grade season, moms and dads cheering the entire team on before we ran our first wind sprint. I felt so much […]
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By Joe Mathews Forgive me for bragging, but my front lawn looks a lot worse than yours. As the drought deepens and the state Water Board revises plans for mandatory restrictions, California’s lawn culture has flipped, dirt-side up. Your local community pillars, once celebrated for lawns and gardens even greener than their money, run the […]
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To the community, Members of Heavenly Mountain Resort’s grooming crew volunteered at Heavenly’s Bread & Broth’s Adopt A Day dinner on April 6. Just like the snow they make into corduroy, the Heavenly grooming team was awesome. Representing Heavenly’s crew were Todd Rudis, manager; supervisors Lupe Barrientos and Kyle Henderson; and leads Tyler Lehman and […]
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By Ed Smith and Elwood Miller A fire adapted community is one where the people have joined together to adequately prepare themselves and their homes for the occurrence of wildfire. They share the goal of mutual protection and creating a community that can survive wildfire with little or no assistance from firefighters. They perceive their community as vulnerable and […]
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By Robert Westover There was a time when fire season for Western states meant only certain months out of the year. Not so long ago the U.S. Forest Service considered it primarily a summer problem with a few regions breaking the trend in early spring and late fall. But climate change, according to most wildland […]
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