By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal Ellen Oppenheim quit Monday after five years as CEO of the Reno Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority, saying she needs more time to care for her ill mother in Texas. She leaves behind ongoing financial struggles at the tourism agency where in the past two years, the budget built on […]
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Each year the Rotary Club of Truckee selects a local nonprofit group to run the silent auction at the annual Crab and Pasta Feed which is slated for March 19. The High Fives Foundation is this year’s group. In addition to the traditional live auction, this year’s event will include a performance by comedian Rick […]
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Explore Tahoe Winter Speaker Series continues Feb. 10 at 6pm with Dave Borges, local Lake Tahoe history expert, sharing the story of John C. Fremont’s sighting of Lake Tahoe and the 1856 presidential campaign highlighting free speech, free press, free Kansas and Fremont. Explore Tahoe is located in the Heavenly Village next to North Face […]
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Explore Tahoe Winter Speaker Series continues Feb. 10 at 6pm with Dave Borges, local Lake Tahoe history expert, sharing the story of John C. Fremont’s sighting of Lake Tahoe and the 1856 presidential campaign highlighting free speech, free press, free Kansas and Fremont. Explore Tahoe is located in the Heavenly Village next to North Face […]
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The Pacific Crest Trail and Tahoe Rim Trail associations are showing the National Geographic “America’s Wild Spaces: The Pacific Crest Trail” on Feb. 25 at 8pm. This hourlong film chronicles the peaks and valleys of the epic 2,650 mile long Pacific Crest Trail. This trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, cutting through seven national parks […]
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BloodSource is having a blood drive in South Lake Tahoe today. The drive is sponsored by the Barton Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. All walk-ins are welcome and there are no appointments. BloodSource provides blood to Barton Memorial Hospital. The blood drive is from 11am to 6pm Feb. 7 at the El Dorado County Library at 1000 […]
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Winds are expected to pick up this afternoon. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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Publisher’s note: This is reprinted from the October 1973 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. The following letter was read by Vera Broder Silberstein at the September meeting. This letter is a composite of three letters written to Vera from Anna Celio, daughter-in-law of Carlo Celio and wife of George Celio. Thank you for picking me […]
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Sweet Jane is about 2 years old. She came to the shelter with her kittens in October. She was a wonderful mother and fostered motherless kittens along with her own. Sweet Jane gets along with other cats and dogs. She has been here a long time and really deserves a home of her own. Sweet […]
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By J. Patrick Coolican, Las Vegas Sun Eric Glyman is exactly the type of young person Nevada needs to reinvent itself. The 20-year-old graduate of Green Valley High School was a valedictorian, science olympiad and member of the speech and debate and track and field teams. Now a junior at Harvard, he’s majoring in Chinese […]
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