To the community, Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows and the Squaw Village Neighborhood Company are proud to have raised over $130,000 with proceeds from the popular summer and fall events held in the Village at Squaw Valley. With the help of over 500 volunteers and the support of over 50,000 attendees, Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows and […]
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By Kelly Kennedy Five U.S. infantry soldiers died on June 21, 2007, when their 30-ton Bradley tracked vehicle hit a deep-buried bomb in Adhamiyah, Iraq. I was embedded as a reporter with their unit when they died, and I watched as the men who served with them rallied. They reached out to the mothers and […]
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By Joanne Marchetta Nearly 200 conservation professionals from around the country gathered back east this November to have a strategic dialogue about the state of landscape-scale conservation. Lake Tahoe was featured at the forum for the region’s cooperative restoration initiatives, and it was an honor to share the stage with such high-caliber conservation thought leaders. […]
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By Charles M. Blow, New York Times It is impossible to say too often or loudly how important a moment this is, when many women feel brave and empowered enough to speak up about being sexually assaulted or harassed by powerful men. It feels like a watershed, like something is fundamentally shifting. But the greatest […]
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By Joe Mathews This week, California should give thanks for Cheech. Richard Anthony Marin deserves our gratitude not just because his new autobiography, “Cheech Is Not My Real Name … But Don’t Call Me Chong,” is the best California book of the year. Or because he provides hope that short, bald men still can be […]
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By Maria Mircheva In the time of Thanksgiving, we at the Sugar Pine Foundation are thinking of the people and organizations that have made our work possible. We are especially thankful to the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation and Patagonia, our first funders, but also to all our partners and volunteers. Twelve years ago, the Sugar […]
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By Dan Pellissier, San Jose Mercury News During the next five weeks, the CalPERS board, custodian of $326 billion in assets needed to fulfill retirement promises for 1.8 million California public employees and beneficiaries, will make decisions affecting government budgets for decades to come. The problem is, despite their fiduciary duty under the state Constitution […]
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To the community, In writing this letter, I am only expressing my own opinion and not that of any organization or entity. Vacation home rentals (VHRs) in El Dorado County are out of control. As is evidenced by the number of residents complaining about noise, parking, trash, over-occupancy, etc., it is time for our government […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Nov. 14, 2017, Water Deeply. It’s time for California to rethink how it manages water for the environment. Despite four decades of effort, many of the state’s freshwater-dependent native species are in decline. Controversy over water for the environment remains high. The latest drought left lasting impacts on […]
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By Kathryn Reed Champions Plaza in South Lake Tahoe was developed to recognize athletes in the area who have reached statewide, national or international recognition in their sport. It was never intended to be just about Olympians or three in particular. Nonetheless, the idea was born out of the trio who became known as the […]
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