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Late in the last century scientists published reams of data about Earth’s climate derived from ice cores taken from Greenland and Antarctic glaciers. By drilling down into the ice with hollow bits (think of using a spinning pipe as a drill) workers were able to pull columns of ice up to the surface. The material [...]
The last day of skiing is always bitter-sweet before fond farewells and the long wait till next season. Sometime in late November or early December, if we’re lucky, it snows enough to head back to the slopes and start skiing all over again. You drive up to Sierra-at-Tahoe and everything is ready. The staff is on [...]
When you can Instagram a photo, boil everything you want to say into 140 characters and release it to the entire world in 20 seconds, walking next to a team of horses pulling a covered wagon up Highway 50 to Echo Summit gives a whole new meaning to the word “slow.” But that’s just what [...]
Join the Tahoe Rim Trail Association for a kick-off celebration of the inaugural 2013 Tahoe Rim Trail Challenge in conjunction with National Trails Day June 1. Program participants are invited to join the TRTA for a fun afternoon with the TRTA where registrants can meet other Trail Challenge participants and hike to one of the [...]
“ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE”: John Chapman provided the following: “Advice from a Rose” T-shirt statement: “Make someone’s day * Enjoy the sunshine * Remember your beauty stems from within * Be colorful * Look past the thorns * Make new buds * Bloom! * Be scent-sational!” CLEAN UP CAMINO: The annual “Camino Clean-up [...]
Providence, R.I. — the waters in the capital of Rhode Island are more than 13 feet deep. Several motorists literally drown in their cars. All 40 homes on Napatree Point between the Atlantic Ocean and Little Narragansett Bay were cleared from the land. Not a speck of habitation is left, except for the solid concrete [...]
The Association of California School Administrators selected Ethel Harnden, district secretary for the Pollock Pines School District, as the state of California’s “Confidential Employee of the Year.” As a classified employee who works closely with district administration, Harnden, 64, is the type of person you want at your right hand, according to Pollock Pines Superintendent Kevin [...]
When do regulations to protect the public health go too far and public agencies become more of a hindrance than a help?
That question is on the mind of Rob Findleton who wants to operate a quarry on Snows Road but finds himself in a stalemate with the El Dorado County Air Quality Management District.
A general engineering contractor by trade, Findleton closed his construction business in 2008 when the economy took a nosedive.
Looking for another source of income, he decided to reopen an old quarry on Snows Road that was operated in the 1850s as a gold mine and was later mined for sand and gravel.
That edgy, bad-boy image that accompanied the arrival of snowboarding more than three decades ago has faded and opinions now vary regarding on who owns the edgier image and desired “cool factor.” “If you’re not on one board, you’re not cool,” said Rick Andersen, a Bay Area teenager who was snowboarding recently at Heavenly. Though Anderson’s [...]
LAKE TAHOE, Calif/Nev — Tahoe South (tahoesouth.com) welcomed March with a series of substantial snowstorms that dropped more than 1-foot at area resorts with another 3-5 inches expected by Friday. Saturday and Sunday’s forecasts call for bluebird conditions with temps in the 30s-40s (noaa.gov). March is historically recognized at Tahoe for sizable snowfall with the [...]
Camino School is now accepting kindergarten students for the 2013-14 school year. Registration packets can be picked up at the Camino School office, 3060 Snows Road in Camino, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. To be eligible for kindergarten, a child must be 5 years old by Oct. 2. Transitional kindergarten will be offered to students [...]
A brief glance at the Web pages that deal with the county’s Traffic Impact Mitigation fees may help explain why some members of the Board of Supervisors want to keep the issue on the cutting table. The most telling section gives comparison rates for each of eight TIM fee zones. The primary distinction between zones [...]
GARDEN VALLEY — The long-awaited return of singer and songwriter Laura Meyer to the Marshall Grange, 4940 Marshall Road in Garden Valley, is on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. Meyer is a true folk rock poet who has spent the majority of the past three years living out of a car. She has driven [...]
Feb. 12 11:09 a.m. The 50-year-old male subject from Placerville reported he was the victim of identity theft by an unknown suspect. 8:12 p.m. Deputies initiated a traffic stop for alleged moving infractions on Missouri Flat Road in Diamond Springs and discovered an alleged domestic violence restraining order violation in progress. The suspect, Eddie Garza, [...]
Learning to ski or snowboard has, to some extent, been a process driven by technology. Previously, it was advances in equipment that influenced teaching. Though now, at El Dorado County’s Sierra-at-Tahoe ski area, advances in digital videography are allowing ski instructors to show their students videos of their runs while still on the mountain. Tiny [...]
The Placerville City Council approved a resolution at Tuesday’s meeting to apply for designation as a Preserve America Community unanimously and with a lot of praise for the application document created by the Historical Advisory Committee. Preserve America is a federal initiative program started in 2003, with the purpose of encouraging and supporting local community [...]
Snowshoe enthusiasts have to go high into the mountains for good conditions. The area around Echo Summit is a good place right now. Echo Summit is 7,382 feet in elevation. Just short of the summit if you come from the west is Johnson Pass Road. Take this road and drive 1/2 mile to the Snow Park. The [...]
THINKING CAN BE HARD: Clara Neilsen provided the book “Live and Learn and Pass It On.” In this book, people ages 5 to 95 offer life lessons, such as the following one: “I’ve learned that it’s a lot easier to react than it is to think.” — Age 55 FREE VACCINATIONS: Free vaccinations for children [...]
Those of us who head into the back country on cross country skis or snowshoes are a typically independent lot. Getting away from the crowds and enjoying the solitude and beauty of the unspoiled forest trump the ease of skiing at a resort. The quietude and wonder of being on the snow, in the winter [...]
Since the late 1940s, numerous developers have announced plans to build the complete winter resort at Lake Tahoe, only to each fall short of that vision. In its 40th year, Northstar California can rightly claim being Lake Tahoe’s first. Originally called the “Timber Farm,” Northstar was a logged forest near the railroad and lumber town [...]