Dear Friend of Valhalla, It’s been a blur since the first June event of the 2009 Valhalla Arts, Music, and Theatre Festival. It was a great Thirtieth Anniversary season, but we’re already looking to the future. Visit our website at www.valhallatahoe.com to learn more about our festive Holiday Faire November 20-22 and the elegant Holiday […]
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By Sallie Ross-Filgo I would like to encourage everyone buying costumes for Halloween to check the labels and make sure they are made of flame retardant materials. Materials made of 100 percent polyester are best suited for Halloween costumes. These costume materials may be purchased at most local fabric stores. The use of commercial flame […]
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Dear Publisher, It is truly disappointing to read the comments of the Publisher of the Tahoe Mountain News regarding Measure “B” and the opinions expressed in the Editorial in the latest edition. It can only be classified as a short-sighted, narrow minded viewpoint. Not only is the information distorted and exaggerated, it is simply untrue […]
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Dear Publisher: Bike path maintenance monies should be spent on bike path maintenance, not on construction of ball fields. Personally, I’m all for ball fields, but just not with bike path maintenance monies. If you needed an initiative to allow bike path monies to be spent on other bike paths not covered by Measure S, […]
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By Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times Do you ever think about other places you might move to if you could, or if you had to? A few years ago, my wife and I drove up to the beautiful Central California coast thinking the area might be a great place to live in 10 years or […]
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Oct. 21 Dear Ms. Reed: The following comments were put together by staff in regard to published comments made in your column on October 15, 2009. The accuracy of comments made in this response below have been checked and verified by City staff. Some statements made to you in the story are at best inaccurate. […]
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By Jessica Roberts I just moved to South Lake Tahoe in June. I enrolled in Tallac because some issues came up in Southern California, which is where I used to live. At first, it was really hard for me to adjust to everything, because I moved my senior year. Now, I’m acclimating and starting to […]
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By Luis Angel Cervantes We hope our letters serve as a window of knowledge, mutually needed at times by our students, to entice our own community to look past and be fond of our school. With all my aspiration to be me, thank you. I started my educational years at Bijou Elementary School; I remember […]
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By Karina Aldana During the time that I attended South Tahoe High School I was your average student. I didn’t care much about school, I just went, did what I had to do, then went home. My grades were decent, but not all that great. I have never been on probation nor was I ever […]
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Dear Publisher, As directors at Lake Tahoe Community College, we strongly support the incumbents (Roberta Mason, Kerry David, and Molly Blann) in the upcoming Board of Trustees election. Over the last eighteen months, the community college system has been cut by $840 million below the voter-approved funding levels. These are the largest cuts ever seen […]
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