By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee TRUCKEE — Two Truckee men charged with cocaine sales entered not guilty pleas Feb. 14 during arraignment at Nevada County Superior Court in Truckee. Salvador Ruvalcaba-Munoz, 36, and Conrado Rodriguez-Quintero, 45, remain in custody at the Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in Nevada City in lieu of $35,000 bail, pending […]
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By USSA SOCHI, Russia – U.S. women rewrote the record books Saturday as Lindsey Vonn of Vail finished third, Julia Mancuso of Squaw Valley sixth, Stacey Cook of Mammoth Mountain ninth and Alice McKennis of Glenwood Springs, Colo., 10th to place four American women in the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup downhill top 10 for […]
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By USSA Scotty Bahrke of Squaw Valley won his first FIS Freestyle Aerials World Cup on Friday in Kreischberg, Austria. This was Bahrke’s first podium of the season and the second of his World Cup career. Dylan Ferguson of Amesbury, Mass., finished third, earning his second podium of the season. Laura Peel of Australia was […]
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By Kathryn Reed All of a sudden I hear a ruckus in the kitchen. Then the sounds of cooking follow. Pretty soon an aroma I can’t quite make out reaches the other side of the house. I go to investigate. Sue is busy stirring this and that. Clearly, I had no idea dinner was going […]
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• Harveys Outdoor Summer Concert Series is starting to take shape with Chicago-Doobie Brothers on July 13 at 7pm, Beach Boys on July 15 at 7pm, Maroon 5 on July 21 at 7pm, Brad Paisley with The Band Perry and Easton Corbin on July 28 at 6:30pm, and Sugarland on Aug. 18 at 7pm. • […]
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The Tahoe Truckee Unified School District board on Feb. 16 agreed to lay off up to 18.4 certificated positions at the end of this school year in order to decrease the $5 million budget deficit for 2012-13. The district will use $3.2 million from the reserve fund to completely close the gap. According to Steve […]
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The Douglas County Public Library is again joining with In-N-Out Burger for the Cover to Cover Club reading program from March 3 to April 14. Children ages 4-12 are eligible to receive certificates for a free In-N-Out hamburger or cheeseburger by reading books. The Zephyr Cove and Minden branches of the library are participating in […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the second of two stories about heroin use on the South Shore. Click here to read the first article. By Jessie Marchesseau Josh does not look like your stereotypical Hollywood heroin addict. In fact, he sat two tables away from me at a local café for nearly 20 minutes while I […]
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Truckee’s Jay Wild is serving double duty for Team USA, racing in the technical and distance divisions at the ISA World SUP Championships. This is Surfing America’s first time to participate in the PacSun USA Stand Up/Prone Paddle Team competition. The event in Miraflores, Peru, runs Feb. 19-25. Wild is considered one of the best […]
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By Rocky Barker and Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s call to sell or transfer federally owned public lands Tuesday night in Boise earned him several rounds of applause. But Idaho Gov. Butch Otter found in 2005 that while Idahoans don’t like how federal lands are managed, they don’t want to lose […]
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