One of the most overused metaphors in a writer's arsenal is the one about "walking and chewing gum at the same time." As a hiker and Big League Chew enthusiast, I particularly hate this cliche. Non...

TahoeChamber would like to thank the event sponsors, volunteers, vendors and attendees of the Mother's Day Business After-Hours Mixer for a fabulous evening on May 10 at Valhalla. The weather wa...

After 25 years in South Lake Tahoe, we were able to recently purchase our first home. We wanted to just give a shout out of thanks to two very special people who helped make this happen for us. Fir...

Have you ever had a near-death experience? If so, I really would like to hear from you.As a child growing up in Newark, N.J., I vividly recall one major near-death experience. So many years have pa...

Some seven years, countless meetings and 2,500 pages later, the TRPA draft regional plan and supporting documents are finally ready for your reading enjoyment. While not the action-packed read of a Harry Potter or dark pleasure of "Fifty Shades of Grey," the four tomes of the TRPA holds some unexpected plot twists.

Key among those surprises is the Threshold Evaluation Study, a report I consider the prelude to the Regional Plan because understanding what worked well environmentally after the 1987 Regional Plan helps inform us what needs attention in the new plan.

Since former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has sewn up the nomination tighter than one of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's suits, the only remaining Republican election drama is which name...

She was a mountain woman, you might say. She drove an old Dodge truck, could chain it in a storm, and carried a .30-06 Springfield in the cab, along with a dog named Spud. She never wore makeup, no...

Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association would like to thank the more than 30 volunteers who showed up on May 6 for the first Trail Work Day of the season. Working with the U.S. Forest Service, we we...

The Smith family would like to thank everyone for joining us in the "Four Year Celebration of Life for Sgt. Timothy Michael Smith" and honoring and remembering our loving Timmy on April 7 at Sie...

With our third annual community service day this past weekend, Bijou school and its students once again saw an amazing outpouring of support from our community of South Lake Tahoe. The grant sup...

I would like to send out a special thanks to the Kiwanis International of Lake Tahoe for the purchase of a fire extinguisher training unit for the Prevention Coalition - Lake Valley Fire Protection...

President Barack Obama was entitled to a victory lap. In August 2007, then-Sen. Obama stuck out his neck when he said that there were terrorists holed up in the mountains of Pakistan and that he wa...

The future is brighter when opportunities are gifted. In the case of Mount Tallac High School students, the future will require sunglasses after the generous gift of skiing and snowboarding made...

As usual, conservatives like Harold Parks seems to think that Michael Zucker doesn't love this country as much as himself because Zucker, along with myself, has a different view of where this count...

In a recent guest column, Carl Ribaudo accused the Lahontan Water Board of excessive delay in approving the U.S. Forest Service South Shore Fuel Reduction and Healthy Forest Restoration Project. In...

When you hear the phrase "property rights," you probably think of farmers fighting environmental regulators and homeowners arguing with oil drillers. But in the Information Age, you should also be ...

Heartfelt gratitude to my neighbors throughout the South Shore for the outpouring of thoughtfulness and prayers following the loss of my two wonderful Retrievers on St. Patrick's Day. Thanks, too, ...

Now that the general election has unofficially begun, you and I and pretty much everyone dear to us, except, of course, beleaguered Kansas City Royals fans who eat barbecue at least twice a week, a...

Mitt Romney can't get past the Seamus story. In 1983, Romney put the family dog in a carrier on the roof of his Chevy as his wife, their five sons and their luggage squeezed into the station wagon ...

Local MusingsOnce again, Lahontan shows why it is the worst-run resource agency in the state of California. As you might recall, the Lahontan Board of Directors recently approved the South Shore Fu...

Would Americans eat less meat, and would animals be treated more humanely, if slaughterhouses were made with glass walls and we all could see the monstrous killing apparatus at work? This is the qu...

Bread & Broth would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to Heavenly Valley volunteers for recently, and yet again, adopting a Day of Nourishment. Volunteers from the Heavenly team - Elizabeth...

Once again Michael Zucker, as Obama did, displays his ignorance of the founding principles of the United States. Co-equal branches of government monitor each other and have the power to stop abuses...

On behalf of the Lake Tahoe Leadership program and TahoeChamber, we would like to extend our thanks and appreciation to those who made the sproutology class a huge success: Suzanne Thomas, our gues...