By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Jen Gurecki summed up the night the best: “I believe service is the rent you pay for life.” She was one of six women recognized March 8 – on International Women’s Day – for her contribution to the South Shore community and beyond. For years Soroptimist International Tahoe Sierra and […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the dog ban at Upper Truckee Marsh is seven weeks away, enforcement of the leash law is being increased starting this weekend. With the mild winter the area is experiencing, more people are outside playing. That in turn means more dogs running around in sensitive areas and disturbing wildlife. May 1 […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Block, the infamous one-time snowboarder hotel near Stateline, is going to open its doors again. The San Francisco-based owners have obtained a building permit from South Lake Tahoe to renovate the rooms, put on a new roof, and bring things up to code. A fire damaged the roof in September when […]
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• Poet Suzanne Roberts will be at Sierra Nevada College April 13 at 7pm as part of the Writers in the Woods Series. She will be reading from and signing her book. The event is at the Center for Environmental Sciences, Room 139, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village. • South Tahoe PUD board members are […]
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To the community, Come the November election, a century ago Woodrow Wilson was elected president. A prime issue in the 1912 campaign was the heavy concentration of wealth in the hands of individuals and the trusts. Wilson believed such a condition was a threat to the republic. Today the republic faces such a threat. Plutocrats […]
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By Kathryn Reed When Girl Scouts was formed 100 years ago this month, women did not have the right to vote, Title IX was 60 years away, and leadership roles for women were rare. On March 12 the world celebrates the group of girls who number 10 million in 145 countries. Though the numbers are […]
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By Steve Green, Las Vegas Sun Tropicana Entertainment Inc. of Las Vegas posted a smaller loss in the fourth quarter than the same period a year earlier, the company disclosed in its annual report this week. The hotel-casino company controlled by investor Carl Icahn said it lost $13.6 million on net revenue of $146.5 million. […]
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By Joe Schoenmann, Las Vegas Sun Angered by an ordinance requiring actors in pornographic productions to wear condoms, some in the adult industry are threatening to move their operations from the “pornucopia” of Los Angeles to Southern Nevada. The news, first reported last month by the Los Angeles Times, has caused some to speculate on […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY — A panel of lawmakers is moving forward with a review of the state’s 45-year-old formula for funding public education after receiving $125,000 from the Clark County School District to pay for a study. The New Method for Funding Public Schools interim study was authorized by the […]
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“The Royal Family”, a comedy by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber, opens March 23 in the Viking Theatre in the Tahoe Arts & Design Academy at South Tahoe High School. Show dates are March 23, 24, 30, 31 at 7pm and March 25 and April 1 at 2pm. Tickets are $5 for students and […]
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