To the community, It is with the greatest joy, respect and admiration that I thank the 33 business owners/managers, South Tahoe Refuse, City Council, service organizations, fire department, Forest Service, community college, hospital staff, district staff, news reporters and community members who attended the Mt. Tallac High School community meet and greet. The experience was […]
Read moreTo the community, For decades, Lake Tahoe has been viewed as one of the clearest and most beautiful lakes in North America. In the past 50 years, however, Lake Tahoe’s water clarity levels have dropped from about thirty meters of clarity to just over 20 meters of clarity today.1 This lack of clarity makes the lake less […]
Read moreTo the community, The volunteers at Bread & Broth would like to thank the Tahoe Douglas Elks Lodge No. 2670 for sponsoring their third Adopt A Day of Nourishment this year on Aug. 17. One of B&B’s most ardent supporters, the Elks Lodge has been hosting several B&B Monday evening dinners annually since the inception […]
Read moreTahoe Resource Conservation District in partnership with the South Tahoe Public Utility District is hosting free outdoor water conservation classes this summer. Tree Care in the Time of Drought and Water Restrictions is Sept. 1 from 5:30-7:30pm at the South Lake Tahoe Public Library, 1000 Rufus Allen Blvd. The last workshop is How to Convert […]
Read moreBy Joe Mathews “Is this the line for the U2 tickets?” a neighbor asked me. Nope. The line extending down the block was just another group of California parents forced to prove that we actually live where we’re trying to send our kids to school. With a new school year comes another fraught season of […]
Read moreTo the community, As we quickly approach the start of the new school year, there is great excitement and anticipation for the developing Career Technical Education (CTE) Pathways throughout the Lake Tahoe Unified School District for all students designed to lead to rewarding careers. As an alternative choice school in the district, Mt. Tallac High […]
Read moreBy Joshua Kopstein, Aljazeera America There’s a saying you’ll hear in certain tech circles: There is no cloud, just other people’s computers. The cloud is, of course, the vast collection of distant databanks we use to back up our vacation photos, search the Web, make online purchases, find the quickest route home and do pretty […]
Read moreTo the community, Although TRPA has spent a lot of time since 2012 touting messages about how “Lake Tahoe is often looked to as an area on the cutting edge of environmental planning” (e.g. 1, 2, 3), we beg to differ. This may have been the case decades ago, but other areas now surpass Lake […]
Read morePublisher’s note: This letter was originally sent to the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors and reprinted with permission. Supervisors, Last year, at your annual Tahoe Board of Supervisors meeting, you couldn’t swing a dead cat in that room without hitting a grant writer or grant getter – often one and the same person. The […]
Read moreBy Mike Benefield, High Country News It’s time to move irrigation pipe. It’s one of those things you have to do when you have a certain amount of land and enough water to irrigate it. My knees hurt as I walk each piece of pipe over to the next dry spot. Here in central Oregon, […]
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