By Geralda Miller, Reno Gazette-Journal Many of the Basque sheepherders who spent the summer months in the early 20th century in the Sierra Nevada used the aspen trees as their canvases. With a pocket knife or nail as their tool, the men who came to the West from the Pyrenees region between France and Spain […]
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North Tahoe Family Resource Center and Adventure Risk Challenge are celebrating Snow Fiesta on March 10 from 6-10pm at the North Lake Tahoe Event Center. This is a drug and alcohol-free family event. Tickets are $10 and all proceeds benefit the North Tahoe FRC and ARC. Kids under 5 are free and 6- to 12-year-olds […]
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Blizzard conditions this morning have forced schools in the Lake Tahoe Basin to call a snow day. Closed for the day are: • Lake Tahoe Unified School District • Lake Tahoe Community College, including Child Development Center • Douglas County schools at the lake • Tahoe Truckee Unified School District • Incline Village schools • […]
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Bona Fide Books is offering a two-day session “So You Want to Write and/or Illustrate a Children’s Book. Now What?” at Bona Fide HQ in Meyers on March 22 from 7-9pm and March 24 from 10am-2:30pm. Writer and illustrator Kristen Schwartz will lead this two-part session aimed toward helping writers and illustrators of children’s, middle […]
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By Paula Forbes, Eater Beard Award winning chef Traci Des Jardins has four restaurants — Jardinière, Mijita Cocina Mexicana, and Public House in San Francisco, and Manzanita at the Ritz-Carlton at Northstar — and two cookbook collections: one antique, one modern. (She is also working on a cookbook of her own to be released in […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Feb. 28, 2012, Reno Gazette-Journal. No one who knew Bill Raggio could doubt his toughness. He was, after all, a former Washoe County district attorney best known for burning down Joe Conforte’s brothel near Wadsworth — in a community more often willing to turn a blind eye to […]
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A campaign has recently been launched by several nonprofits and foundations called the Tahoe Truckee Reads Campaign. This is a call to action to improve reading proficiency for all children by third grade. Currently, two-thirds of the students in the U.S. and 47 percent of children at Tahoe Truckee Unified School District are not reading […]
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Location Elevation Snow Depth Water Content % of Long Term Average Alpha 7,600 feet 19.4 inches 4.9 inches 18 Phillips Station 6,800 feet 17.7 inches 3.9 inches 16 Lyons Creek 6,700 feet 30.5 inches 8.3 inches 33 Tamarack Flat 6,500 feet 24 inches 6 inches 26 Source: DWR By Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION – “In California […]
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The “fireside chat” originally scheduled for Feb. 27 at Sierra Nevada College with Joanne Marchetta, executive director of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, has been rescheduled for 6-7:30pm March 5 at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences on the campus of Sierra Nevada College at Incline Village. The subject of the presentation is 21st Century […]
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