By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee Imagine a gold nugget the size of a small fruitcake. Fred Holabird, a mining geologist, doesn’t have to imagine, because a gold prospector brought one into his Reno office in 2010. Holabird remembers shouting, “Oh, my God!” or something similar, but unprintable in a family newspaper. “I made some exclamation […]
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Look for Bona Fide Books’ first three titles to come out this year. In the coming months, the Meyer’s publishing house will publish “Permanent Vacation: Twenty Writers on Life and Work in Our National Parks”, Jason Schossler’s collection of poetry, “Mud Cakes, and Tahoe Blues”, a collection of flash fiction and nonfiction about Lake Tahoe. […]
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Enjoy another beautiful day on the mountain, with temperatures in the high 30s. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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By U.S. Ski Team ZAUCHENSEE, Austria -– Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn of Vail nearly skied into the fence Saturday, but reeled it back in to win the women’s Audi FIS Alpine World Cup downhill in Zauchensee, her fourth win of the season. Vonn gained 50 points on overall leader Maria Reisch of Germany, who finished […]
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By U.S. Ski Team Olympic medalist Andrew Weibrecht of Lake Placid will miss the remainder of the 2011 Audi FIS Alpine World Cup tour with a season-ending shoulder injury, announced U.S. Ski Team Medical Director Kyle Wilkens Friday. Weibrecht suffered a dislocated left shoulder while training slalom in Hinterreit, Austria, prior to the annual post […]
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The North Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce and the Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Sierra Human Resources Association are offering 2011 Labor Law Update and Wide-Open Q&A on Jan. 20 from 8:30am to noon at Cedar House Sports Hotel, 10918 Brockway Road in Truckee. This employment law seminar includes updated information, […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee Both the Sierra Nevada and the San Francisco Bay-Delta have been named by environmental groups to a new list of 10 American habitats threatened by climate change. The list was released Wednesday by the Endangered Species Coalition, a network of hundreds of conservation groups in the United States. The 10 […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee The bird wears anonymous tan plumage and often tries to blend into a crowd. Few people know it visits California, much less spends most of its time here. The mountain plover has been hiding in plain sight in California for decades. But that’s about to change. A major new survey […]
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By Bill Marolt There was an aura of excitement at Copper Mountain last month for the Visa U.S. Halfpipe Grand Prix. That excitement was echoed last week when organizers of the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships at Deer Valley and Park City Mountain Resorts confirmed slopestyle skiing on the schedule. The weekend at Copper mixed […]
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Mother, wife and community volunteer Michelle Feeney is known for dedicating her extra time in the Lake Tahoe community – from poverty to nutrition, she is devoted to making changes in the area. She has worked for Barton Health at the Community Clinic, Barton Family Medicine and is now joining Dr. Jennifer Ehmann at Barton […]
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