By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Accused kidnapper Phillip Garrido is expected to plead guilty Thursday to the 1991 abduction of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in a bid to show compassion for Dugard as well as his wife, Nancy, one of the lawyers in the case told The Bee today. Stephen Tapson, Nancy Garrido’s attorney, said […]
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By Frank X. Mullen Jr., Reno Gazette-Journal Neal A. Dach admits he has no background in developing tourist attractions. The Carson City native is a former Army bomb detection and disposal specialist, an Iraq war veteran and a graduate student in neuroscience at Harvard University. But when it comes to the historic American Flat ruin […]
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By Steve Timko, Reno Gazette-Journal Fritzi Huntington of Glenbrook was remembered as a powerful, long-time advocate to protect Lake Tahoe and a friend of the environment in general. Huntington died March 10, 11 days after her 90th birthday. “She loved Lake Tahoe and everyone who loved Lake Tahoe loved her,” said Rochelle Nason, executive director […]
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It’s shaping up to be another warm, sunny day to get out on the slopes. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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By Reno Gazette-Journal Washoe County Sheriff’s deputies arrested an Incline Village woman after she allegedly fired a gun at a man she was arguing with at her home. Michele Maher, 45, remains in the Washoe County Jail on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm where a person is endangered, and possession […]
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By Susan Wood With Highway 89 reopening Monday evening at Emerald Bay near Eagle Falls after an avalanche buried a vehicle a few days before, at least one area resident would not be fooling when she says she won’t be driving it. Karrie Kunich of Markleeville recounted with Lake Tahoe News the scare of her […]
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By Kathryn Reed Some things are worth waiting for – like a recipe. At a New Year’s Eve party my friend Brenda made quinoa – pronounced keen-wah. Oh, how yummy it was. This grain has been around forever, but seemed to become all the rage in the United States just recently. It is native to […]
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The 2011 season for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad is high-balling down the track toward opening weekend, May 27–29 in Carson City. Before the official opening weekend, the railroad is offering a sneak peek into the historic route with a special event on Mother’s Day, May 8. Families hopping aboard the special edition train in […]
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TOCCATA will present selections from J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in a series of concerts April 17-23. Concerts are: April 17 at 5:30pm at Trinity Episcopal Church in Reno; April 20 at 7:30pm at St. Theresa Catholic Church in South Lake Tahoe; April 22 at 7:30pm at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church in Incline Village; April […]
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By Jeff Jacoby, Townhall Back in November of 1999, as Boston’s 516,000-square-foot convention center was about to go up near the South Boston waterfront, I wrote a column about the futility of building exhibition halls with taxpayer money. Such facilities, I observed, are invariably touted as engines of economic growth, guaranteed to stimulate the creation […]
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