By National Transportation Safety Board As a brand new school year begins, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reminds parents, students and motorists to be alert and to put safety first in school zones and near school bus stops. School buses are the safest means of transportation for getting to […]
Read moreBy Anderea Castillo, Modesto Bee Hikers in Yosemite National Park were evacuated by helicopter after a wildfire spread Sunday afternoon. Tim Ludington of the National Park Service said the Meadow fire, which was started by lightning in mid-July adjacent to Mount Starr King, grew with strong winds and hot temperatures, creating a spot fire. The […]
Read moreThe U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will begin a large-scale tree removal project Sept. 8 near Page Meadows off of Chamonix Road. The project uses a masticator to reduce material left behind after fuels reduction thinning. A masticator is a large lawn-mower type of heavy equipment that runs over debris and chops […]
Read moreBy Toogee Sielsch DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK – “It’s your call Ian. Do you want to spend the night around here and check out Scotty’s Castle in the morning, or should we drive the 27 more miles on dirt roads, in the dark, and check out that Racetrack thing in the morning?” “Racetrack!(?)” Ian replies. […]
Read moreBy Katie Arnold, Outside Even if you’re not ready to yank your kid out of fourth grade to let them run loose in the woods, there are plenty of ways to give your kids more freedom to learn on their own while still sending them to school. Start at home by encouraging them to follow […]
Read moreOn Oct. 8 at 7pm Bona Fide Books will launch St. Louis poet Travis Mossotti’s award-winning collection “Field Study” at the Lake Tahoe Community College’s Writers’ Series. The reading is free and open to the public. Mossotti’s second collection, “Field Study” won Bona Fide’s 2013 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize, offered annually in honor of […]
Read moreBy J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Next year, the number of people employed in Nevada’s leisure and hospitality sector could return to the highest level it had reached before the recession hit. Since falling to a low point of slightly fewer than 304,000 employees in November 2009, the state’s leisure and hospitality labor force has […]
Read more• On Aug. 23 the final phase of the Rim to Reno project, a spur trail to Mt. Houghton Summit, was completed. • University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s Living with Fire Program received $495,000 from the Nevada Bureau of Land Management to continue and enhance the current program. • CVS this month pulled cigarettes from […]
Read moreThe 3rd annual Deep Blue Roller Derby Tournament is Sept. 13-14 in South Lake Tahoe. Ten teams will be battling it out on the flat track at Bijou Community Park for two days. It is free to watch. Bring lawn chairs, food and drinks to the track. Competition is from 8:30am-5pm on Saturday; 9am-4pm on […]
Read moreBy Roberto A. Ferdman, Washington Post There’s a quiet, and lightly caffeinated, trend brewing in America. The U.S. market for tea has more than quadrupled during the past twenty-plus years—from just under $2 billion in 1990 to just over $10 billion last year—according to the U.S. Tea Association. Demand for the herbal beverage has now […]
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