By Kara Lapoint, Reno Gazette-Journal Casey Hakansson learned how to build skis in a snowboard manufacturing shop. It was not the conventional route for starting a ski company, but it’s where the journey began for the 32-year-old founder and president of Sparks-based Moment Skis. “My friend was making snowboards over at Sentury Snowboards (in Reno),” […]
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To the community, Squaw Valley was blessed with a wonderful holiday period including an abundance of bluebird days, fresh snow and amazing mountain conditions. Unfortunately, as we welcomed the holidays and more snow to the mountain, the resort was challenged by electrical, transportation and weather related issues that created inconveniences for those of you who […]
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Performance Nutrition for Winter Sports is the title of Dana Lis’ program. The registered dietitian will speak Jan. 11 at 6pm at Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village. A no-host bar opens at 5:30pm. A $5 donation is requested. With valid student ID it’s free. Whether training for The Great […]
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By Kathryn Reed SPOONER SUMMIT — Tucked off the side of the road near the top of Spooner Summit is a new fire station that belongs to the U.S. Forest Service. The contractor finished the nearly $1 million project last month. Half of the money for the structure is from Forest Service coffers, while the […]
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By Bill Hagar, Reno Gazette-Journal Bill Raggio, Nevada’s longest-serving state senator, said Wednesday that he is resigning because he can no longer navigate the lengthy hallways of the Nevada Legislature due to a torn Achilles tendon in his left ankle. The departure of Raggio, an 84-year-old Reno Republican, will further diminish Northern Nevada’s clout in […]
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Updated: Jan. 6 3:20am. No one was injured this week when the Mott Canyon chairlift at Heavenly Ski Resort derailed. Fourteen people were evacuated by rope and the lift remains offline. “At approximately 1pm on Jan. 4, a male snowboarder at Heavenly Mountain Resort slid through the entrance gate at Mott chairlift, hitting an outgoing […]
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The second presentation in the Discussions on Education series, a collaboration between Sierra Nevada College and Lake Tahoe School Parents Association, will be Jan. 13 at 6:30pm in rooms 139/141 of the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences on the SNC campus. The film, “Two Million Minutes”, takes a startling look at how the three superpowers […]
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By Charles Bethea, ESPN Action Sports Coming to a network near you: the gnarly evolution of “Nitro Circus.” Over the past year, Squaw Valley-based pro skier Mike Wilson, with the help of sponsors and partners, has raised and spent an estimated $1 million filming six episodes of what the 24-year-old calls an “action-sports-based-adventure-travel show.” The […]
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By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown will spare K-12 schools from further drastic cuts in his budget – so long as voters extend higher income taxes in a special election, according to sources familiar with his proposal. The tradeoff wouldn’t cure education ills, and many districts would still face another year of fewer […]
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By Tom Knudson, Sacramento Bee The journey begins with a plastic bottle tossed into a California recycling bin. And it ends, more often than not, in China, where that bottle is turned into a cheap trinket or toy – a long-distance, low-grade form of recycling that contributes to global warming and sows no green jobs […]
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