The Douglas County Library is celebrating Teen Read Week with an art contest. Enter a drawing, photograph, or story with a fall theme. Bring entries to the Minden or Zephyr Cove libraries between Oct. 6-17. Winners will be announced at the Teen Mystery Party. Winners and honorable mentions in each category will receive candy. Their […]
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By Suzy Strutner, Huffington Post You know the feeling: you wake up after a long night’s sleep in a hotel bed, slip into your fuzzy hotel-issued slippers and hotel-issued robe, step onto the fluffy hotel carpet and think “WHY is this so amazing?!” The question is certainly intriguing. So we asked a handful of HuffPost […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College board of trustees approved a policy that prohibits smoking within buildings or facilities owned or leased by the district, and has designated marked outside areas on campus for smoking. All other smoking and tobacco use in and on the LTCC campus is prohibited except in personal vehicles. Individuals who refuse to […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau Lake Tahoe Community College kicked off the 2014-15 school year with a new mascot, the coyote, and two new soccer teams to wear it on their jerseys. LTCC has been devoid of an intercollegiate athletic team since it did away with Nordic skiing in 2001. Volleyball and cross country running were discontinued […]
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To the community, On Nov. 4, I will vote yes on Measure F to provide much-needed funding to maintain and modernize Lake Tahoe Community College. I am asking you to join me in supporting our local college — a key institution in our town whose future is so closely tied to the entire South Shore […]
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By Fenit Nirapril, AP SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed the nation’s first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery and convenience stores, driven to action by pollution in streets and waterways. A national coalition of plastic bag manufacturers immediately said it would seek a voter referendum to repeal the law, which […]
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The annual Fall Fish Festival is Oct. 4-5 at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center on Lake Tahoe’s South Shore. It focuses on a variety of fish species that live in Lake Tahoe and its streams, including the federally threatened Lahontan cutthroat trout, little-known smaller fish, such as Speckled dace, and the Kokanee salmon. The weekend events […]
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By Ryan Frank, Las Vegas Sun Reno had a problem in 1998. Lots of problems, in fact. “The Biggest Little City in the World” long had been surpassed by Las Vegas and Atlantic City as a gaming destination, and tribal casinos had taken over Reno’s monopoly on northern California gamblers. Lance Gilman, a music promoter-turned-real […]
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Updated Sept. 30 5:15pm: The South Lake Tahoe bicyclist struck by a vehicle on Sept. 29 has been identified as 62-year-old Robert Klein. He is at Renown Medical Center in Reno. Police Lt. Brian Williams told Lake Tahoe News he has “significant head injuries.” Klein was lying in the traffic lanes of Emerald Bay Road near McDonald’s at the […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — As much as anyone, Harry Reid is responsible for building modern-day Nevada. He has leveraged political savvy and well-placed Washington friends to pave bike lanes, build solar plants and land Tesla Motors’ battery factory. But Reid could lose something important this fall: His power to control the […]
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