Before there was an officially-routed and designated Highway 50 at South Shore, there were various unpaved other roads. One such road ran along the shoreline from Stateline toward Tahoe Valley in the early 1900s, part of which became today’s Lakeview Avenue. It traversed the Upper Truckee marsh area where Mt. Tallac is visible behind Tahoe […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the seven South Lake Tahoe City Council candidates a series of questions. All are the same except for one that is specific to each candidate. The responses are being run in the order LTN received them. Name: Tom Davis Profession/work experience: Director of General Services for Heavenly Ski Resort; […]
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By Charles J. Moore, New York Times LOS ANGELES — The world is awash in plastic. It’s in our cars and our carpets, we wrap it around the food we eat and virtually every other product we consume; it has become a key lubricant of globalization — but it’s choking our future in ways that […]
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By Charles Fleming, Los Angeles Times Who’s riding motorcycles in California? Older, married, educated men with money — and getting more so. New statistics prepared by the Motorcycle Industry Council show the median age of California motorcycle owners was 45 years old in 2012 — having risen from 33 years in 1990, 38 years in […]
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The South Lake Tahoe Moose Lodge is hosting the 12th annual Kids’ Fishing Derby on Sept. 21 at Tahoe Paradise’s Lake Baron. The derby is free to all children 15 and younger. Registration begins at 7am at Lake Baron, near the main entrance. Fishing continues until 3pm. Hot dogs, ships, Sodas, and water are provided […]
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South Lake Tahoe is accepting applications for the fall Citizens Academy. The free academy will be on consecutive Wednesdays from 5:30-8pm beginning Oct. 8 through Nov. 12. It is an interactive course designed to provide residents with an in-depth look into municipal government, as well as, information about the services and programs of the city. […]
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By Rebecca Klein, Huffington Post Closing the achievement gap between low-income and affluent students could be as simple as do-re-mi. In a study out Tuesday from Northwestern University, researchers looked at the impact of music education on at-risk children’s nervous systems and found that music lessons could help them develop language and reading skills. The […]
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Businesses in El Dorado and Placer counties may apply for Economic Injury Disaster Loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration. The loans are for economic losses this year sustained because of the drought. Eligible businesses include: small nonfarm businesses, agricultural cooperatives, small aquaculture businesses and most private, nonprofit organizations. The deadline to apply is Sept. […]
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By Steve Janjic By all accounts, America’s emerging cannabis industry is shaping up to be the country’s biggest business experiment of the 21st century. But the mushrooming niche sector could quickly become an unnavigable morass of conflicting state and federal laws, with banks reluctant to touch the industry’s abundance of money and a patchwork of […]
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Liberty Utilities will present a check for $17,085.85 to the Lake Tahoe Community College board on Sept. 9 at 6:15pm. The check represents the total of all incentive rebates the college is eligible to receive based on energy efficiency improvements it has made since 2013. Liberty Utilities offers an energy efficiency program to residential and […]
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