The U.S. Forest has reduced access to parts of the South Shore for a fuels reduction and forest health project. The work began last week off forest roads 12N15 and 12N08 (Powerline) near Trout Creek southwest of Columbine Trail near South Lake Tahoe. The Forest Service will close the areas in units 74, 1074, 199, and 1199 […]
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By Katie Arnold, Outside So far this summer has been one of the wettest and coolest on record across much of North America. In Ontario, where my family and I spent a month at our island cottage, the thermometer topped 80 only a couple of times. Many days started out damp and chilly, but I’d […]
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Got drugs? National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is Sept. 27. South Lake Tahoe police officers will be collecting prescription drugs from 10am-2pm in the Safeway parking lot on Johnson Boulevard and Highway 50. The National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also […]
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By Guy Clifton, Reno Gazette-Journal Lloyd T. Dyer, and former president and CEO of Harrah’s and a longtime Reno civic leader, died Sunday night. He was 87 and died after a brief battle with cancer, his son, Greg, said Monday. Lloyd Dyer went to work for Harrah’s in 1957, starting in the cashier’s office and […]
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The Alta Mira building on Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe came down Sept. 15 in less than two hours. The California Tahoe Conservancy bought the 0.55-acre property. This area is the end point for what started as the 56-acre project. Beautification from this parcel to El Dorado Beach would complete the Lakeview Commons project. […]
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• “Last Weekend”, the film shot at Lake Tahoe and now in movie theaters, was also shot at Barton Memorial Hospital. This trailer shows a brief clip inside the South Lake Tahoe hospital. • Diamond Peak Ski Resort season pass holders will receive bonus days at Boreal Mountain Resort and June Mountain Ski Area in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Inhale deeply in many South Lake Tahoe neighborhoods and the stench of skunk permeates the nostrils. But it isn’t wildlife; it’s marijuana being grown indoors. Need some weed? South Lake Tahoe is your answer – especially for people with medical marijuana cards. Tahoe Wellness Cooperative, the only medicinal marijuana shop in the […]
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To the community, Feeding those in need has been the focus of the Bread & Broth program for the last 25 years and it has only been through the tremendous generosity of individuals, churches, organizations and businesses of our South Shore community that the program has been so successful in providing hot, well balanced and […]
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Updated Sept. 16 11:45pm: Several new evacuation orders were issued Sept. 16 for people in the path of the King Fire. Evacuations are now in effect for the Crystal Basin: Highway 50 east of Fresh Pond to Ice House, north on Icehouse to Wentworth Springs, west to just above Quintette to include all campgrounds and businesses. […]
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By Rudy Ruitenberg, Bloomberg World hunger fell in the past four years, with about 805 million people estimated to be chronically underfed in the 2012-14 period from 841 million in 2008-10, the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organization said. About one-in-nine people still go hungry, with insufficient food for a healthy and active life, from one-in-eight […]
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