Arts for the Schools in Truckee is bringing Rahim AlHaj, a virtuoso oud musician and composer who was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and began playing the oud (the grandfather of all stringed instruments) at age 9, to town on Feb. 2. In 1991, after the first Gulf War, AlHaj was forced to leave Iraq due […]
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South Lake Tahoe Rotary Club is putting on a speech contest in March for high school students. Ages 14-18 may enter the Rotary District 5190 speech contest. Speeches must be 5-7 minutes in length with the topic Rotary is making a difference. What about me? Winners of the local contest will progress to the area […]
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· South Lake Tahoe on Jan. 30 set a record high of 56 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Reno. The old record of 52 was from 1989 and 2012. · Kenny Chesney is returning to Harveys on July 3. Country musician Chris Stapleton will play at the Stateline venue on July 26. […]
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By Kathryn Reed TWIN BRIDGES – Perfect corduroy. Slightly crusty powder. Hard pack. Soft, pillowy snow. Dirt and twigs. Ski conditions are so variable right now in the greater Lake Tahoe area that it depends on the run, not just the ski resort. Sierra-at-Tahoe on Monday was a mixed bag, with mostly pleasurable moments. And […]
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By Joe Mathews Los Angeles is not Latin America. Such a statement should be as uncontroversial as a map of the western hemisphere. But in L.A., elite conventional wisdom runs the other way. Lewis D’Vorkin, the Los Angeles Times editor, recently promoted L.A. as “the northern capital of Latin America” in a staff memo. Organizers […]
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By Associated Press The moon is providing a rare triple treat this week. On Wednesday, much of the world will get to see not only a blue moon and a supermoon, but also a total lunar eclipse, all rolled into one. There hasn’t been a triple lineup like this since 1982 and the next won’t […]
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By Jeff German, Las Vegas Review-Journal State officials have created a task force to spur oversight of casino emergency response plans following the Oct. 1 massacre outside Mandalay Bay on the Las Vegas Strip. The effort is a result of a Review-Journal investigation last month that found the Nevada Division of Emergency Management for years […]
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By Megan Michelson, Co-op Journal Exactly one year ago, Joe Zuiches kissed his half-sleeping wife, Mikki, on the forehead as he left his house in the dark, at 3:30 in the morning on Jan. 24, 2017. Joe was on his way to his job as a ski patroller at Squaw Valley. He’d once read that […]
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South Lake Tahoe Rotary is looking for high school students ages 14-18 to enter into the Rotary District 5190 Youth Instrumental Music contest. Songs are to be 3-8 minutes in length. The music contest consists of three rounds (local club contest, area contest and district contest) with the winner of the district contest receiving $1,000, […]
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Douglas County sheriff’s search and rescue is having an academy in April for potential members. Rescuers are essentially on call 24/7; working in the county and helping neighboring rescue teams. DCSAR is accredited by the Mountain Rescue Association and responds to high/low angle rope rescue events, reports of lost or injured backcountry snowshoeing, skiing, snowmobiling […]
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