The Reno-Tahoe Senior Summer Games is Aug. 4-10. The games are dedicated to promoting and implementing fitness programs and activities for people 50 and older. Registration deadline for the pickleball bracket is July 25 at 5pm. Registration for all other games will remain open until Aug. 4. Events include archery, table tennis, horseshoes, basketball, badminton, […]
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Dedication of the Echo Summit 1968 track and field Olympic training site as a historical place:
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By Kathryn Reed Two people were injured when the Deerfield Lodge in South Lake Tahoe went up in flames Wednesday night. The fire that swept through the Ski Run Boulevard two-story hotel displaced all of the guests. Thirty-five people were taken to Lakeside Inn for the evening and are expected to return today. The back […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – With an arsonist on the loose on the South Shore setting brush fires, Simmie is even more important. Simmie is Lake Valley Fire Protection District’s arson dog. She was at the Soroptimist International South Lake Tahoe lunch on Wednesday at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe with her handler Gareth Harris. Harris, fire […]
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To the community, On June 20, I fell at the Emerald Point Lookout and tourists (two or three families) assisted me by stopping the bleeding to a head wound I had and called the ambulance. With the arrival of the South Lake Tahoe ambulance, came a team of great EMTs. They secured my safety (with […]
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By Kathryn Reed I’ve had a thing for corn this summer. But that’s not the best food choice when someone in the house has braces. The recipe below, though, makes these yellow nuggets edible for her. It seems like every ear I buy at the farmers’ market is sweeter than the next. While these enchiladas […]
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• The gross crop value of agricultural production in El Dorado County for 2013 was up 20 percent from 2012. The $56.8 million yield in gross returns (not net profit) was up from the $47.1 million reported in 2012. Apples are the No. 1 crop. • The deadline to signup for the 31st annual Tahoe […]
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By Geoffrey Mohan, Los Angeles Times If you want to slow climate change, white meat may be the right meat, according to two studies that tally the environmental effect of the beef industry. Raising cattle in the U.S. requires 28 times as much land and 11 times as much irrigation water, and pumps at least […]
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Two black bears trapped on July 22 have been released back in to the wild by Nevada Department of Wildlife. One was caught in Incline Village and the other Gardnerville. Both bears were tagged, tattooed and microchipped in order to identify them in the future should they come back in to contact with humans. A […]
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Publisher’s note: The following letter was given to the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors on July 22, 2014. Ladies and Gentlemen: The construction of a new sheriff’s headquarters is long overdue and much needed. We must get our sheriff and his staff out of the clearly unacceptable facility in which they now protect and […]
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