Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the three Douglas County sheriff’s candidates a series of questions. The responses are running in the order they were received. All but one question is the same. Name: Ron Pierini Age: 62 Occupation: Sheriff, Douglas County What groups, nonprofits, other civic involvement are you part of outside of work?: […]
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To the community, Heavenly Mountain Resort’s product sales and services team members had a very busy night serving the 98 guests who attended Bread & Broth’s dinner April 14. The hard working volunteers representing the PSS team were Paul Hopkins, director; Kelly Carmichael, manager; James Mitchell, assistant manager, Jimi Herbst, manager; and Jolena Hearn, greeter/host […]
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NFL hall of famers, former Major League Baseball players and other sports celebrities, including Olympic freestyle skiing gold medalist Jonny Moseley, will gather July 13-14 to pay tribute to the former Oakland Raider Gene Upshaw. They will be raising funds for cancer programs and traumatic brain injury research during the 6th annual Gene Upshaw Memorial […]
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The Nevada State Railroad Museum will operate and offer rides aboard Virginia & Truckee Railway’s McKeen motor car No. 22 on May 10 from 10am-4pm. The car is a National Historic Landmark. The car entered service for the V&T on May 9, 1910, and was retired in 1945. No. 22 is the only restored and […]
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By Paul Takahashi, Las Vegas Sun Current eighth- and ninth-graders won’t have to pass new exams in math, reading and writing to graduate from high school, Nevada’s K-12 education leaders decided Thursday. Earlier this year, the Nevada State Board of Education began phasing out the current High School Proficiency Exam in favor of new assessments […]
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The multi-year South Shore Fuels Reduction and Healthy Forest Restoration Project is about to resume. On April 21, work will take place between Highway 89 and Cascade Lake, and between the west end of Gardner Mountain and lower Angora Ridge. Approximately 380 acres in these areas will be thinned by hand, which is done by […]
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Tickets to the third annual Lake Tahoe SummerFest, a series of classical music concerts the first three weekends in August, are on sale. Prices go up June 1. The Lake Tahoe SummerFest orchestra is comprised of world renowned musicians representative of international symphonies including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco, Seattle, and […]
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Local children are invited to participate in the seventh annual Camp Sunrise bereavement camp. The camp serves ages 7-14 who have experienced the death of a loved one. It is sponsored by the Barton Foundation and Home Health and Hospice. The camp is at Galilee Camp and Retreat Center in Glenbrook. At Camp Sunrise, campers […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Ray Nutting goes on trial for felony malfeasance Tuesday, and the political rancor is seething in El Dorado County. In the courtroom, Nutting, a four-term county supervisor, faces prosecution for alleged misconduct related to state grants he took for clearing brush on his family ranch. But it is the spectacle […]
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By Elizabeth Holmes, Wall Street Journal When everything is available for sale on your smartphone, why do catalogs still clutter your mailbox? The old-school marketing format has survived to play a crucial creative role in modern e-commerce. Today, the catalog is bait for customers, like a store window display, and a source of inspiration, the […]
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