Jen Gurecki, CEO and founder of the ski and snowboard company Coalition Snow and the nonprofit social enterprise Zawadisha, will give a talk at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village on March 22. Gurecki focuses on bottom-up social change by building resilient communities and cultivating female leadership. Zawadisha provides small loans to rural Kenyan women […]
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By Sage Sauerbrey, Moonshine Ink Ski communities seem to have an especially strong inclination for nostalgia. I grew up with my parents’ tales of my home mountain during the ’80s when the powder stayed fresh for days and getting duct-taped to the local bar was a common occurrence. Lift tickets were less than $50, and […]
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Douglas County is on a path to not allow recreational marijuana. Planning commissioners on March 14 ruled that retail dispensaries, cultivation, testing, product manufacturing and distribution facilities will not be allowed. This does not affect the use of marijuana. Nevada voters last fall approved recreational marijuana. However, Douglas voters were against it. The measure allowed […]
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By Joe Vazquez, KPIX-TV Weeks of rainy weather across Northern California and the storm runoff through the hills of gold country have triggered a new gold rush. “Miner Gary” Thomas said he always finds at least a little gold here on his property near Jamestown in Tuolumne County, but this year, there’s so much […]
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· Sierra Avalanche Center has applied for a grant from the California OHV Division to support avalanche forecasting, education and safety in Lake Tahoe. Public comments may be made online. · Zephyr Cove Library will be having an Alice in Wonderland Tea Party on April 15 from 2-4pm for ages 4-10. · On March 16, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Cooking for two instead of 20 – that’s what Jerry Birdwell is looking forward to. Learning to cook for 20 is something Rachel Carlson is going to have to figure out soon. Carlson and her husband, Greg, as of March 15 are the owners of the Black Bear Inn in South Lake […]
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By James R. Pomerantz and Daniel Oppenheimer How do we know how much we learn in college? If you search for an answer to this question, prepare to be disappointed. Popular college rankings such as U.S. News &World Report’s are based on subjective judgments of schools’ reputations and on the difficulty of gaining admission. Rarely, […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee California exports more than commodities such as movies, new technologies and produce. It also exports truck drivers, cooks and cashiers. Every year from 2000 through 2015, more people left California than moved in from other states. This migration was not spread evenly across all income groups, a Sacramento Bee review […]
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By Marcella Corona, Reno Gazette-Journal Federal agents arrested 25 people in Reno during a week-long operation that targeted illegal immigrants. In total, 61 foreigners from six countries were arrested. Of that total, 55 people had criminal histories. That includes prior convictions for sex crimes, drug offenses and domestic violence, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs […]
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By Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times To meet the bold new climate change goals put in place last year, California will work to put millions of electric cars on the road, revolutionize its dairy industry and generate half of all power from solar panels and other renewable sources. But those efforts will come up […]
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