By Chris Gabel, Reno Gazette-Journal Not long after the sun rose over the Virginia Range on Thursday morning, high school football players around Washoe County hit the field for up-downs, wind sprints and the start of two-a-day practices. “We hit it hard this morning, and the kids did good,” Carson High coach Blair Roman said. […]
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By Dan Johnson, Argus-Courier A 2010 graduate of Petaluma High School broke his neck while diving at South Lake Tahoe on Tuesday, and is paralyzed from the chest down. Danny Cox, the son of Graffiti restaurant owner Maureen McGowan, was on vacation at a beach, playing with some friends, when he did a flat dive […]
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By Kathryn Reed Play was not interrupted as engines rolled across the fairways of Bijou Golf Course on Thursday. The smell of smoke drifted toward Happy Homestead Cemetery as crews about a quarter mile away on the South Lake Tahoe course put out the small fire. Although South Tahoe, Lake Valley and Forest Service personnel […]
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South Lake Tahoe voters will have 11 names to choose from for the three open City Council seats on the Nov. 2 ballot. The candidates are Tom Davis, Angela Swanson, Georg May, Claire Fortier, Joy Curry, Steve Kubby, Adrian Gooch, Elizabeth Hallen, Dough Cichowicz, Alice Jones and Clint Schue. No one challenged the incumbents for […]
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Join the Tahoe Rim Trail Association on Aug. 21 for the Galena Falls Wildflower Hike/ This leisurely hike starts with a climb up and over a ridge and through the forest to a cascading waterfall. It is followed by a moderate climb to a high mountain meadow. It may be hot. so bring lots of […]
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Lake Tahoe Wellness Weekend is Sept. 24-26 at Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe. The weekend includes four fitness classes with top fitness experts inspiring Vinyasa Yoga classes with San Francisco instructor Ginger Layden-Braun held outdoors on Hyatt’s Cottage Green, and Balletone and Aikina Aerobics with former Russian competitive gymnast Alyona Aikina. Also included in the weekend: […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY – Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip suffered their lowest monthly gross win since 2003, with players of baccarat, blackjack and craps winning more than usual in June. The 37 casinos, which account for more than 50 percent of the win in the state, captured $382.9 million, […]
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Award-winning Nevada schoolteacher Janet Bremer will give a Chautauqua presentation of Comstock socialite Marie Louise Mackay at a free event at the Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park. Mackay came to Nevada during the “Rush to Washoe,” but her husband’s drug and alcohol addiction left her a widow with a young child. In 1867. she married […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee SUSANVILLE – It wasn’t a simple, orderly process, but the federal government’s controversial wild horse roundup started Wednesday in northeastern California with few of the problems that opponents decry as they try to put a stop to the practice. Roughly 130 horses were herded into pens by a helicopter buzzing […]
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The Mosquito Road Bridge over the South Fork American River in El Dorado County will be continuously closed for major maintenance from Aug. 16 through Oct. 22. Rock Creek Road remains open to traffic and is the designated detour route. Mosquito Road north to Sand Mountain Boulevard will remain available as a secondary emergency evacuation […]
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