The Lake Tahoe Unified School District board on Tuesday appointed Casey Blann to the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee as the business representative and Kelly Lancellotti as the at-large member of the committee. Both are two-year terms.
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Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard of the Tahoe Basin … and Other Geophysical Musings is the subject of a presentation by Graham Kent, director of hte Nevada Seismological Lab. Click on lecture for details.
Read moreThe 2010 Tahoe Basin Science Conference is March 16-17 at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, Sierra Nevada College Campus, Incline Village. Click on conference for details.
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Publisher’s note: This is the final installment of Tahoe’s talk of Vancouver. By Kathryn Reed WHISTLER, British Columbia — I’m a convert. I’ve never been a fan of ski villages. They seem like a make believe, developer construed, concrete morass with little attention paid to the locals and dollar signs the end goal. Much of […]
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Partly cloudy with light winds today, and a slight chance of scattered showers—enjoy the break in the weather! Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe, delivers his ski report.
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By Susan Wood CALLAGHAN VALLEY, British Columbia — Free-heel skiers rejoice. For the first time in history, there’s a place and time to see the best of the best compete in all four Nordic disciplines — cross country, biathlon, ski jumping and Nordic combined — during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games. The beauty and majesty […]
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By Ron Judd, Seattle Times Because of its fast-paced action, soaring jumps, and spectacular wipeouts, snowboarding has quickly grown from a stepchild Olympic sport to a true fan favorite. Snowboarding is contested on slopes with heavy degrees of human shaping. The halfpipe, where freestyle snowboarding takes place, is a carved snow trough, about 110 meters […]
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By Paul Rogers, Mercury News Maybe it’s the bad economy, or the dinky designs. But two state campaigns aimed at raising money to expand parks, restore creeks and build hiking trails in the Bay Area and the Sierra Nevada through the sale of new specialized license plates are failing to gain traction with motorists. Under […]
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By Susan Wood The Winter Olympics is a hot ticket for those who are enthusiastic about cold weather sports. That’s why the Reno-Tahoe Winter Games Coalition has not given up hope on hosting the world-renowned event again. The group led by Chief Executive Officer Jon Killoran is so motivated to bring the Games back decades […]
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The El Dorado Arts Council, Libraries and County Office of Education will launch The Big Read in celebration of “The Call of the Wild” with a proclamation by the county Board of Supervisors followed by a reception at the Main Library in Placerville on Feb. 2. The kick-off event will feature the Board of Supervisors […]
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