Zephyr Cove Tennis Club is closing out the season with Spook-tacular-themed mixer. Players are encouraged to dress in a Halloween costume Oct. 1. The best dressed will win a prize. Play starts at 5:30pm. The doubles mixer is for adult players of all abilities. The Hump Day Mixers are $10 for club members, $15 for […]
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By Paul A. O’Keefe, New York Times We have all had to work on tasks we detest: Calculus homework, for example, is boring and hard. As soon as we start, we feel mentally exhausted, and the quality of our work suffers. Now imagine you are an aspiring architect. Learning how calculus can help you design […]
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Home buyers are focusing on lakefront properties in the Lake Tahoe Basin. “Lakefronts have outperformed other sectors of the Tahoe basin market this year as compared with 2013,” Linda Granger with Granger Group, Alain Pinel Realtors said in a statement. In July, five homes on the California side sold for more than $2 million — […]
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By Jeff Wheelwright, National Geographic SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK — This great park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California attracts a million visitors a year, who come mostly in summer to see the largest trees on Earth. After Labor Day the heat and the tourists dissipate. So does a less welcome visitor: air pollution. By a […]
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By Scott Blasser On Sept. 11, 2001, our country was attacked. It forever changed our nation in countless ways. In 2009, four firefighters from the Sac Metro Fire Department established a 9/11 Memorial Climb to honor the 343 firefighters that gave their lives on 9/11. The climb is symbolic in nature: 343 died that day, 343 climb […]
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The third annual Fall Festival and Chili Cook Off will offer opportunities for the community to support several local nonprofits. The event is Sept. 13 from 10am-4pm at the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Complex on Rufus Allen Boulevard. Buy a bowl of chili and vote for your favorite one. Proceeds will be donated to Bread & Broth, […]
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By Ana Ley, Las Vegas Sun Nevada ranks sixth in the nation in the rate of women killed by men, according to a study published by a gun control advocacy group. A nationwide analysis of 2012 homicide data by the Violence Policy Center in Washington, D.C., shows that nearly two female victims are killed at […]
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By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Half of all bird species in North America — including the bald eagle — are at risk of severe population decline by 2080 if the swift pace of global warming continues, the National Audubon Society concluded in a study released Monday. “The scale of the disruption we’re projecting is […]
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To the community, It was a special evening for the guests at Bread & Broth’s dinner on Sept. 1. Thanks to a generous donation by Robert Stiles, an agent with Chase International, and the outstanding efforts of the evening’s hardworking B&B cooks, the guests were treated to vegetarian pizzas which were made from scratch and served […]
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By Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post Pre-rolled marijuana joints are pictured at the Sea of Green Farms in Seattle, Washington June 30, 2014. REUTERS/Jason Redmond Teenagers who smoke marijuana daily are over 60 percent less likely to complete high school than those who never use. They’re also 60 percent less likely to graduate college and seven […]
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