By Steve Timko and Jaclyn O’Malley, Reno Gazette-Journal Relatives of a 15-year-old snowboarder — who died Wednesday after crashing into a tree while walking down a slick ski resort mountainside — remembered him Thursday as an amazing and sweet boy. Galena High student Maison T. Ortiz had been snowboarding with a friend at Mount Rose […]
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By Kristin Hanes, Fox 40 VACAVILLE — A spattering of cell phone calls are all family members and police have to go on as they try to find Jose Ruben Valdez. Valdez, 57, was supposed to have arrived in South Lake Tahoe on Wednesday when he left his Anaheim home. But, he never arrived. Since […]
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Cooper Ranch in Plymouth (Amador County) is site of the first Barbera Festival on June 11 from 11am-4pm. This outdoor wine and food festival will host more than 70 wineries from the Sierra foothills, Paso Robles, Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Lake County, the Santa Cruz Mountains, Ventura County, Lodi and the Bay Area. Approximately 1,500 people […]
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TOCCATA – Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus — sixth anniversary Winter MusicFest concert series istitled “Viva Vivaldi”. This series features a return performance of Elizabeth Pitcairn performing on the world famous “Red Stradivarius Violin” in Vivaldi’s most beloved work, “The Four Seasons”. The program features additional soloists Virginia Bowman, concertmaster; Heather Gallagher, principal second violin; […]
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By Jennifer Medina and Marc Lacey, New York Times TUCSON — Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a gunshot through her head on Jan. 8, is likely to leave a hospital here on Friday and move to the TIRR Memorial Hermann rehabilitation hospital in Houston to continue her recovery, a spokesman for Ms. Giffords said Wednesday. […]
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Spring conditions with all the sun, though reports are the runs are hard, not soft and slushy. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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• Amador Stage Lines is offering a season pass on its buses for people traveling between the South Shore and the Reno airport. For more information, call (775) 691.2788. • Placer County this month changed its retirement benefits. • Steven Hemphill has been hired to be the communications manager at Sierra-at-Tahoe. • Plans are moving […]
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The Heavenly Ski and Snowboard Foundation will kick-off the 11th Annual Kinder Kup Race Series at Heavenly Mountain Resort on Jan. 23 from 8am to 2pm. Open to all skiers and snowboarders age 6 and under, the Kinder Kup series is designed to introduce young athletes to competition in a friendly environment. No previous race […]
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By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee It’s a new year, a new administration at the Capitol, and the ferret lobby has a new strategy. Short on cash and support in the Legislature and stymied by procedural requirements at the Fish and Game Commission, a coalition of ferret legalization supporters is hoping a new argument on […]
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By Steve Kubby When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to re-examine the political bonds which have connected them to their government, and to reassume among the powers of the Earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature entitle them, a decent respect to the […]
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