By Kathryn Reed The Tahoe Queen is being dismantled. Sort of. In order to comply with an anticipated visit by the U.S. Coast Guard in the fall, the paddle-wheeler will not churn the waters of Lake Tahoe until late April or early May. This is so workers can overhaul the interior of the hull. The […]
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South Lake Tahoe City Councilman Bruce Grego says he’s not getting special treatment by being the only councilman with a filing cabinet at the city offices. He wants to keep paperwork there. Everyone else in the 44-year history of the city has taken the material home. Former Councilman Ted Long tried to get his own […]
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By Jon Ralston, Las Vegas Review-Journal Two Nevada institutions were pronounced dead last week — Harry Reid and Yucca Mountain. These two have died more deaths than Shakespeare’s coward, but both remain alive. But for how long? I come not to write about the dump today — I’ll save my take on that new panel […]
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By Barry Svrluga, Washington Post Julia Mancuso’s image, calculated or not, was important to her. Winning an Olympic gold medal with a tiara on her head, reveling in the idea that her coaches called her a “princess,” surfing and swimming and being the picture of good health in the waves of Maui, posing seductively in […]
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By Lauren Gustus, Renog Gazette-Journal Building your own ski cross course is becoming the popular thing to do at Lake Tahoe these days. Errol Kerr, the Jamaican ski cross racer and Truckee resident, is the latest to construct a course. His is at Alpine Meadows, which is Kerr’s home mountain. Earlier this month, U.S. ski […]
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Douglas County School District wants to know what people want in the next superintendent. Click here to take a survey.
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On Feb. 11 at 6pm at the Explore Tahoe Visitor Center Tara McCarthy, U.S. Forest Service forestry technician and Ski With A Ranger program leader, presents a slideshow tour of Heavenly Mountain Resort. The program will highlight geology, watershed, forest management and wildlife studies that are part of the USFS partnership with Heavenly. This program […]
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On Feb. 18 at 6pm Explore Tahoe Visitor Center presents Nina MacLeod and Sue Knight from Friends of Snowshoe Thompson. The two will tell the story of the legendary mailman of the Sierra Nevada in the “The Life and Adventures of Snowshoe Thompson.†This program is free and refreshments will be provided. Explore Tahoe is […]
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By USSA STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — Less than one week before the 2010 Games open in Vancouver, the U.S. Olympic moguls team has returned to the site of its Olympic Trials event and are putting the finishing touches on their runs before they are Vancouver Bound. “The camp is going great here in Steamboat. It […]
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By Jim Wasserman, Sacramento Bee Sales of homes costing $1 million or more fell sharply across the capital region and throughout California last year as buyers remained wary, large mortgages were hard to get and more homes slipped below the benchmark value, researcher MDA Dataquick reported Thursday. The La Jolla firm counted 291 sales of […]
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