By Bill O’Reilly Growing up in Levittown out on Long Island, I remember my father buying pants through the mail. This seemed strange to me. There was a Robert Hall clothing store nearby, and it had pants all over the place. But my dad said he could buy two pair for the price of one […]
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Prestigious snow carvers from around the world will call North Lake Tahoe home Feb. 8-12 for the region’s first- Carve Tahoe competition, with the judging take place Feb. 13. The weeklong international snow sculpture contest is specifically geared for spectators who will view firsthand 20-ton blocks of pure snow shaped and carved into breathtaking masterpieces. […]
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By Devon O’Neil, XGames.com ASPEN — Ten years removed from her first Winter X Games gold medal, Kelly Clark reminded everyone Friday night why she will go down as the greatest snowboard halfpipe rider in history. Clark, wearing a “Celebrate Sarah” sticker on her helmet in memory of late halfpipe skier Sarah Burke, posted both […]
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By Colin Bane, XGames.com ASPEN — Jamie Anderson of South Lake Tahoe is now 6-for-6 in podium finishes in women’s snowboard slopestyle at the Winter X Games. Her gold medal Friday is her third. She dominated the competition, posting a Run 1 score of 94.00, then improving to 95.33 in Run 3 — the highest […]
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By Colin Bane, XGames.com ASPEN — Shaun White’s planned return to the podium in men’s snowboard slopestyle at the Winter X Games will have to wait. After taking practice runs Friday morning before the elimination round, White deemed his sprained left ankle too much of a liability, and left the Winter X Games 2012 venue […]
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By USSA ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Olympic downhill champion Lindsey Vonn of Vail torched the St. Moritz speed track for a 1.42 second margin of victory and her career 49th Audi FIS Alpine World Cup win. Julia Mancuso of Squaw Valley was fifth and Leanne Smith of North Conway, N.H., seventh as three Americans crowded […]
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Aaron Katz, the Lake Tahoe attorney who has sued the Incline Village General Improvement District and repeatedly criticized the district, will be the guest at the next Fireside Chat on Feb. 2 in Sierra Nevada College’s Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences room 139/141. The chat — hosted by Incline Village resident Andy Whyman — is […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY — Nevada state Republican Party officials expect all the major GOP candidates to visit the state ahead of the Feb. 4 first in the West caucus. The Nevada GOP is also introducing social media into the process, using Google and Twitter to report the caucus results beginning […]
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Lake Tahoe Historical Society will present the film “In Pursuit Of A Dream” on Feb. 7 at 6:30pm at the Lodge at Camp Richardson. The film shows 24 students and three teachers from across the United States in a cross country wagon trek as the “emigrate” from Wyoming to Oregon one recent summer. They dressed […]
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Ellen Booker isn’t a superhero, but her actions this week came close. And Paula Peterson is around to write about the ordeal. Ellen is Lake Tahoe News’ latest Random Acts of Kindness winner for helping her neighbor Paula out when her car got stuck on an icy South Shore road. Read all about it on […]
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