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Tahoe Transportation District blog: Prepare Before the Snow Flies
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 2:49pm
So you’re going on a road trip and you'll cross some mountain passes. But the weather forecast calls for heavy snow and high winds. If you're going to drive in a snowstorm you'll want to be smart and safe about it. In no particular order and, depending on the circumstances, here are some must items to have in your vehicle courtesy of the Tahoe Transportation District.
Proposed food labels would rate nutrition
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:23amBy Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle. WASHINGTON — In an effort to contain epidemic obesity, the Institute of Medicine on Thursday recommended ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../proposed-food-labels...
Ski swap in Tahoe City
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:23amThe 11th annual Tahoe Cross County Ski Swap is Nov. 12 form 10am to 3pm. Skate ski equipment, classic, light touring, backcountry, snowshoes, kid's sleds, ...www.laketahoenews.net/2011/10/ski-swap...
Pier dispute reaches settlement
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 8:32amKINGS BEACH, Calif. - The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and a North Shore property owner have settled a dispute over a series of environmental rule violations that stretched back to 2008.On Wednes...
Former South Tahoe student returns from Broadway to work with high school drama class
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 8:25amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - When Sebastiani "Bubba" Romagnolo was in drama class at South Tahoe High School, he put in extra effort, to say the least. Romagnolo performed in numerous plays, worki...
Former South Tahoe student returns from Broadway to work with high school drama class
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 8:25amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - When Sebastiani "Bubba" Romagnolo was in drama class at South Tahoe High School, he put in extra effort, to say the least. Romagnolo performed in numerous plays, worki...
Northern California struck by 2 earthquakes
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 7:48amTRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) - A magnitude-4.8 earthquake has shaken Northern California communities in the Sierra Nevada.The U.S. Geological Survey says in a computer generated report that the quake struc...
Incline grinds out win over Whittell
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 5:00amZEPHYR COVE, Nev. - The game was over and the Whittell Warriors began to jog off the field. Hunter Morgan lingered a bit, staring at the score board standing in the south end zone. On the opposi...
Whittell ends season against Incline
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 5:00amZEPHYR COVE, Nev. - When the depleted Warriors hopped on the bus to make the long drive across Nevada to West Wendover, things were already looking bad for them. With four guys injured, and unab...
Decline in habitat reducing number of martens in Sierra
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 12:01amThe Sagehen Experimental Forest is located in the Tahoe National Forest about 30 miles north of Lake Tahoe and is managed by the Pacific Southwest ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../decline-in-habitat-reduc...
Share your holiday memories with LTN readers
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 12:01amLake Tahoe News in collaboration with the Barton Foundation is giving away four packages of tickets to Family Night. The package includes tickets for six people ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../share-your...
Rags to riches story for former Tahoe logger
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 12:01amRags to riches story for former Tahoe logger. Posted by admin in Lifestyle on October 26th, 2011 | no responses. By Carly Flandro, Bozeman Daily Chronicle ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../rags-to-riches-s...
Tahoe Tails — Adoptable Pets in South Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 12:01amCalvin is just one of nine 2- to 4-month-old kittens at the shelter right now. They are all cute and playful, and ready to go home. cat With the reduced fee for cats ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../tahoe...
Douglas County beefs up DUI Patrol over Nevada Day weekend
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 8:18pmBy Jim Halsey
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office will participate in several high-visibility traffic enforcement details over the Nevada Day / pre-Halloween weekend.
During the late evening and early morning hours of Friday through Sunday, October 28th-30th, deputies of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, working in conjunction with deputies of the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office, will conduct increased DUI enforcement patrols on the highways and roadways within Douglas County.
Train to become a basketball referee
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Momentum to eliminate social promotion in LTUSD
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 7:37pmThe idea is by October educators have a good idea who is falling so far behind that it may be impossible to make up the work. South Tahoe Middle School Principal Beth Delacour at the Oct. 25 meeting r...
STATA's bumblings seeping out in court documents
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 7:37pmSouth Tahoe Area Transit Authority's board voted to file for bankruptcy in August 2010. MV filed a lawsuit a couple months before that after the STATA board severed the transit operator's agre...
Snippets about Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 7:37pmPosted by admin in Grab Bag on October 26th, 2011 | no responses. hyatt • Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe expects its $20 million renovation of its guestrooms, Sierra Café and the Spa Terrace Conference Cent...
Tahoe 21st Century Education Series: Author Bernie Trilling to Speak
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 6:32pmBy Heather Segale
Community educators are joining forces to bring another 21st Century Education Speakers Series to the Lake Tahoe Basin. This year’s series kicks-off with author Bernie Trilling on Tuesday, November 8th from 6:30 – 9:00 pm at Sierra Nevada College in the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences.
Heavenly, Northstar begin blowing snow on runs
Submitted by Sam Bauman on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 5:24pmHeavenly Mountain Resort and Northstar California Resort began making snow Tuesday night, a sure sign that winter is upon us and sweet music to the ears of skiers and snowboarders everywhere.
Nevada tourism director to promote state through Facebook, Twitter
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 5:04pmClaudia Vecchio has four weeks to cram for a big test. The newly appointed director of the Nevada Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs — the revamped Nevada Tourism Commission — will deliver opening remarks for the two-day Governor’s Conference on Tourism beginning Nov. 29. With a shrinking budget that not only is dwarfed by other state departments but by state tourism boards across the West, Vecchio has her eyes on the low-cost 21st century version of over-the-fence chitchat with friends and neighbors — social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
Go here for the Las Vegas Sun story by Richard N. Velotta.
Nevada Legislative panel approves annual bear hunt
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 3:58pmCARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Black bears will remain in the crosshairs of Nevada hunters after a legislative panel agreed Wednesday to make regulations authorizing an annual hunt permanent, despite obj...
Oregon slaying suspect arrested in Placerville
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 3:40pmGRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Police have arrested a relative of the couple shot dead at their home in the Southern Oregon community Merlin.Josephine County sheriff's deputies say 58-year-old Gary Ly...
The truth about Pop Fiction: it's a funky good time
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:54pmWhether you are bringing "Jessie's Girl," "Jack and Diane" or the "Dancing Queen" to the 33rd annual Freakers Ball this Saturday, Oct. 29, the band Pop Fiction will have the music to make eveCop...
Game wants to inspire the next Barack Obama
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:49pmRyan JohnsonGame had no shortage of trials and tribulations growing up, including getting shot multiple times. During his recovery, he was able to study the art of rapping and hip-hop, which beg...
The Improv welcomes Cotter to Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:45pmJust like last week, Harveys' Improv has a debut appearance. I've been waiting for Tom Cotter to get up here and still can't believe it's taken more than 10 years to get him to play our little r...
When You've Seen One, You've Only Just Begun
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:40pmThe 22nd screen adaptation of "The Three Musketeers" is a tepid rendition of the Alexander Dumas 1844 classic.The film is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, who seeks another vehicle to star his 37...
Former Blue Turtle answers call to rock with Dad's LPs
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:37pmJay Seals has found an alternative to Blue Turtle Seduction.He is playing in an alternative rock-based band. Dad's LPs performs free on Thursday at a familiar Blue Turtle haunt, the Divided Sky....
Todd Clouser's tasteful jazz is hardly dinner music
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:30pmTodd Clouser is not limited by geographic or musical borders.A native of Minnesota, he has lived in Mexico for five years, and while Clouser can be considered a jazz guitarist, he's clearly influen...
We Can Challenge Week 6: Stretch for 10 minutes per day
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 10:00amFlexibility is a commonly overlooked part of your child's fitness and health. While speed, strength, and endurance can be more easily shown or practiced flexibility is a little less obvious. One co...
Douglas libraries closed for Nevada Day
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 9:59amThe Douglas County Public libraries in Minden and Zephyr Cove will be closed from Oct. 27 through Oct. 29 for leave without pay and the Nevada Day holiday.The Minden Library will re-open at 10 a.m....
KUDOS & KINDNESS: Thanks to Safeway for books
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 9:54amThe Sierra House Elementary Parent Teacher Association would like to give a huge thank you to Safeway for donating all the fabulous, hard bound books to our school! The kids loved having something ...
Local restaurants support council for the disabled's anniversary
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 9:51amIn celebration of Tahoe Area Coordinating Council for the Disabled's 30 year anniversary, five different local restaurants offered to help increase the council's funding base to make sure their imp...
Tough facts about breast cancer
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 9:47am"You have breast cancer."More than 260,000 American women heard those words in 2010, and nearly 40,000 of them did not survive the year. But a diagnosis of breast cancer does not have to be a death...
City offers prescription drug take back
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 9:17amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - South Lake Tahoe Police Department in conjunction with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will give the public a chance to safely dispose of unused and unwanted pre...
Outdoors with Don Q: Fishing for Mackinaw at Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Don Quilici on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 8:50am
On Wednesday morning Oct. 19, Elaine and I went fishing at Lake Tahoe for Mackinaw lake trout with our longtime good friend and sport fishing guide, Gene St. Denis of Blue Ribbon Charters outfitted South Lake Tahoe, Calif.
“Gino” has fished Tahoe for some thirty years (the last 13 years as a fishing guide) and is one of the top, if not the top, guides at that lake.
Terror in Tahoe turns campground into haunted attraction
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 7:43amIt's not often people get a chance to do charity work by hacking faux bodies to pieces.Terror in Tahoe is taking full advantage of the Halloween opportunity."At night, it's really ghoulish," sai...
Terror in Tahoe turns campground into haunted attraction
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 7:43amIt's not often people get a chance to do charity work by hacking faux bodies to pieces.Terror in Tahoe is taking full advantage of the Halloween opportunity."At night, it's really ghoulish," sai...
Opinion: Denial will not heal what ails South Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 6:43amTo the community,. I watched and listened to Mayor Hal Cole's state of the city speech. There are two parts to any speech, substance and tone. On substance ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../opinion-den...
Momentum to eliminate social promotion in LTUSD
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 6:43amIt's going to get tougher to be passed from one grade to the next in Lake Tahoe Unified School District without knowing the material. ltusd The board on Tuesday ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../moment...
STATA's bumblings seeping out in court documents
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 6:43amSouth Tahoe Area Transit Authority's board voted to file for bankruptcy in August 2010. MV filed a lawsuit a couple months before that after the STATA board ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../statas-bum...
Snippets about Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:27amHyatt Regency Lake Tahoe expects its $20 million renovation of its guestrooms Sierra Café and the Spa Terrace Conference Center to be done by the end of ...www.laketahoenews.net/2011/.../snippets-abou...
Holiday Tree permits go on sale in the Lake Tahoe Basin
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 12:50amBy Lisa Herron
UPDATED: The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU) will begin the sale of holiday tree permits on Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. Permits cost $10 each (cash or check only, no credit cards) with a limit of two permits per family, valid for cutting on or before Dec. 25, 2011. Permit holders may choose from a variety of pine, fir or cedar in designated cutting areas and must abide by specific permit conditions for proper and responsible collection.
Permits will be available at two locations:
Fishing report through Nov. 2
Submitted by Don Quilici on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:56pmHere is the fishing report for the week of Oct. 26 to Nov. 2. This report covers rivers, streams and lakes in Nevada, the Sierra, Northern California and Southern Oregon.
Italian wine making on a small scale
Submitted by Don Quilici on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:17pm
On Saturday, Oct. 1, four of us (Bob and Lorraine Scholes of Dayton, Nev. and Elaine and I had the opportunity to visit a small vineyard called Corte de Valle in the Tuscany Region of Northern Italy.
It is one of a number of Bed & Breakfast vineyards (large and small) that are located along the Chianti Road between Siena and Florence.
We saw their small sign as we drove past, and on the spur of the moment, decided to turn around and visit there. It was a great decision.
Food swap in Truckee
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 7:18pmTruckee River Winery with Slow Food Lake Tahoe is hosting a food swap Oct. 30 from 2-4pm. A food swap is where your homemade, homegrown, and foraged creations become your own personal currency for use...
South Tahoe woman pleads guilty to wire fraud
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 4:56pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - A South Lake Tahoe investment broker has pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud for embezzling about $25,000 from investors, according to a Friday statement from ...
Pier owner challenges TRPA findings
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 4:07pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The owner of a lakefront property that has attracted Tahoe Regional Planning Agency attention for allegedly violating Lake Tahoe's strict environmental rules is challe...
Overhaul of Lake Tahoe planning ordinances made easy
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 3:30pmBy the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
As the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency prepares to reorganize and reformat its code of ordinances to make it more user-friendly, an equally user-friendly summary of the proposed edits and procedural changes has been prepared and is available to offer greater clarity to the public, according to the Agency.
Holiday tree permits go on sale in the Lake Tahoe Basin
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 3:01pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will begin the sale of holiday tree permits on Nov. 7.Permits cost $10 each (cash or check only, no credit cards)...
