To the community, Although it’s been a busy season safeguarding Heavenly Mountain Resort skiers, on Jan. 16 the Heavenly ski patrol also wanted to help the community off the mountain. By sponsoring a Bread & Broth Adopt A Day of Nourishment, the ski patrol funded a B&B’s Monday meal, which not only provided a hot, […]
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By Joe Mathews The new film musical “La La Land” is being celebrated as a love letter to L.A. But the darker heart of the movie lies in a brief and devastating critique of Southern California, delivered by the jazz pianist played by Ryan Gosling. “That’s L.A.,” he tells his lover, an aspiring actress played […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee When California was building what became a world-class network of freeways, highways and local roads after World War II, it relied on a simple financial tool called “user pays.” Personal and commercial users of roadways paid for their construction and maintenance through fuel taxes, motor vehicle fees, bridge tolls and […]
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To the community, In light of the unprecedented number of snow days we have experienced this early into the winter season and our desire to make up instructional time for our students, the district is proposing making changes to the current 2016-17 school calendar. In addition to eliminating three minimum days (Feb. 1, March 8, […]
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To the community, Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce would like to thank the community for supporting the local charity, Bread & Broth, at the annual Connect for a Cause Charity Mixer at Riva Grill on Jan. 12. Over 100 people attended the event and together raised $1,299 for Bread & Broth. Tahoe Chamber […]
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To the community, First off I want to thank Paul Reder for his investment in this community with The Loft and other ventures. Having been here 40 continuous years I know it’s not easy in this town. I also want to say that I am all for events in the area. I was in the […]
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By Jim Lawrence Twenty-five years ago, I finished my graduate work in Oregon and moved to Northern Nevada for a planning position at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. Having spent a large part of my youth hiking and camping at Tahoe and in the Sierra, the move felt like coming home. Today, I am still […]
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To the community, My two contacts with Liberty Utilities were via the phone number published by local media for “electric outage reports”. Each call was answered quickly by a friendly and efficient live person. In addition, I received a follow up welfare call from what I think was a field technician within one hour of […]
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By Richard M. Skinner For all their happy pageantry – marching brass bands on parade, solemn invocations, evening gowns at the balls—our inaugurations expose some of the biggest tensions that define the American presidency. At the founding of our republic, monarchs led nearly every other nation. Even as democratic systems spread, most countries adopted parliamentary […]
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To the community, Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless would like to thank the city of South Lake Tahoe for their preparedness in the face of severe weather last week. As one volunteer commented, “Everyone at the city of South Lake Tahoe was very nice, helpful, and willing.” The South Lake Tahoe Warm Room is an […]
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