The Telluride Mountain Film Festival comes to North Lake Tahoe Dec. 16 and Dec. 17. Part of the Squaw Valley Institute educational events, the two-day celebration kicks off with a VIP Private Opening Reception and Film Showing at Gallery Keoki in the Village at Squaw Valley Dec. 16 at 6:30pm. This private party is limited […]
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El Dorado County Avoid the 6 is having a slew of enforcement operations during the holiday season. The following is the schedule: Dec. 17: DUI Saturation Patrols 7pm-1am, Placerville Dec. 18: DUI/driver’s license checkpoint, 6pm-1am, Placerville Dec. 20: DUI Saturation Patrols, 7pm-1am, South Lake Tahoe Dec. 28: DUI/driver’s license checkpoint, 8pm-1am, South Lake Tahoe Dec. […]
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By U.S. Ski Team ST. MORITZ, Switzerland – Defending Audi FIS Alpine World Cup overall champion Lindsey Vonn of Vail and a surging Julia Mancuso of Squaw Valley finished 7-8 in the St. Moritz giant slalom as the second run was delayed an hour due to high winds. Tessa Worley of France took the come-from-behind […]
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Bring the sunscreen to the slopes. It is expected to be in the 50s and sunny today. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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• Heavenly’s Tamarack Lodge is opening six weeks early – Dec. 18. • Matt Green is the indefinite interim superintendent of the Sierra District for California State Parks, which includes Lake Tahoe. Pam Armas is now with the parks’ OHV division. • TAMBA meeting Dec. 15 from 6-8pm in the Aspen Room (L103) at Lake […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News is looking for ideas for gifts that cost less than $20 to share with readers. Read this for details. Make the wine lovers on your list happy this holiday season with tickets to January’s Bring out the Barrel wine event at various El Dorado County vintners. Advanced tickets may be […]
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By Laurel Rosenhall, Sacramento Bee When Elizabeth Walz ran for student government last year, she built her campaign around an issue she knew would resonate with her peers at UC Davis: the cost of textbooks. For days, she stood in the quad polling students on their textbook-buying habits. “A lot of the responses were, ‘I […]
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By Clark Mason, Press Democrat Wastewater and winegrapes may not seem like a complementary pairing, but they soon will be in Healdsburg. The City Council on Monday unanimously approved a project to irrigate more than 300 acres of vineyards with highly treated wastewater from Healdsburg’s new state-of-the-art treatment plant. The reclaimed water could be used […]
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By Bonnie Mattoon, Reno Gazette-Journal Fred Hauseur, owner and operator of Custom Firearms & Gunsmithing in Mound House, learned the art of gunsmithing from his father who owned a small gun shop in Susanville, Calif. They worked together for more than 28 years first in Susanville, then in Applegate, Calif., and now Mound House. The […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee EUREKA – Joey Burger was 14 when his naturalist parents moved from Santa Cruz to settle in the coastal forest of Humboldt County. Local hippies and homesteaders welcomed the new kid in the woods. They schooled him in the regional art – growing marijuana. “It was never looked upon as […]
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