Ticket go on sale Jan. 9 at 10am for Sammy Hagar and The Wabos, who will play at Harrah’s South Shore Room May 7-8.
Tickets are only available through TicketMaster outlets. They are $75 plus tax, general admission. Must be 21 to attend.
Hagar returns to Lake Tahoe with The Wabos to help celebrate the sixth anniversary the Cabo Wabo Cantina, his restaurant and bar inside Harveys.
Two South Lake Tahoe men have been arrested for allegedly robbing the CVS Pharmacy on Emerald Bay Road on Dec. 27 and for a Dec. 16 residential robbery near the state line.
Kyle Shannon and Stuart Miller, both 22, were booked into the El Dorado County Jail in South Lake Tahoe on multiple robbery charges.
Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe, says rose colored glasses would be good today. Here is his ski report.
Squaw Valley begins its 10-day celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the 1960 Olympics on Jan. 8.
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In addition to their duties here at the college, many of the Lake Tahoe Community College Art Department faculty and staff are practicing artists in their own right.
An exhibit of their work will go on display in the Student Gallery, located in the LTCC commons, Jan. 9 and run through March 20. This exhibition highlights their talent by revealing the broad spectrum of media, techniques, and styles being explored. There will be an artists’ reception Jan. 14 from 6-8.
Haldan Gallery — “The Contemporary Figure: Drawings by CSULB Art Dept. Facultyâ€
This group exhibition highlights the figurative drawings of seven artists who teach at CSU Long Beach. Classical drawing techniques combine with contemporary content to present an exhibition of stunning figural studies from nationally and internationally recognized artists. This exhibit will open Jan. 14 and through March 18.
A talk with one of the participating artists: Yu Ji is scheduled for March 18, 5-6pm, in the Aspen Room.
New Gallery Hours:
T-W-Th: 11am–5:30pm
F: 11am-2:30pm
Jamie Anderson, 19, is one of the top female snowboarders in the world. She dominates slopestyle events. She is aiming for the Olympic halfpipe team — slopestyle is not an Olympic event.
Home resort: Sierra-at-Tahoe
Jamie Anderson
Why did you choose this resort?: Because it’s close to home and it happens to be the best!
How often are you in Lake Tahoe?: Not very often.
When you aren’t training and competing where can we find you and what would you be doing?: Either hiking, swimming, camping, bowling, skating, or chillin at the beach.
How long have you been participating in your sport? 10 years!
Who inspires you most and why? My mom is a huge inspiration to me. She is so real! I learn so much from her all the time and it’s so empowering to be around people like her.
Your life is devoted to an event that is over in minutes, how do you prepare for that thrill of victory or agony of defeat? I have no attachments. I sincerely love what I do, and of course I’m happy if I win, but I’m not sad if I don’t. I know that I’m only doing it for the love, so all is well.
Anything else you would like to add? One Life! Send it!
Publisher’s note: Read about what is happening along the Olympic torch route on Jan. 8.
El Dorado County has help for seniors. Learn about the vast programs available to older adults and their caregivers with one phone call.
The Senior Information & Assistance Program is designed to assist in navigating various senior programs and finding what might best assist you. Learn about programs to keep you safely at home, to keep you active in the community as well as programs that contribute to your overall well being.
Call (530) 621.6369 for more information.
Read the January-February issue of Sierra magazine to find out what Hannah Teter’s opinions are about the environment.
Mike Lathbury plans to open Truckee Pizza at the Citizen’s Bank Plaza, which is near his Smokey’s Kitchen on Donner Pass Road. Truckee Pizza will have minimal seating as it focuses on delivery and take-out.
Hannah Teter
Brooks’ Bar and Deck is open for the winter at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course.
Crystal Bay’s Prestige Publishing, which puts out Wedding Affair and Homes & Land, acquired Reno’s Pulse magazine.
The Bureau of Reclamation early this year will release draft environmental documents regarding the possibility of increasing the height of Stampede Reservoir, which is north of Truckee.
Bonita Paulis of South Lake Tahoe has three images in “The Best of America Pastel Artists Vol. 2.â€
By Victor Calderon, Reno Gazette-Journal
Napoleon Dynamite was right: a liger does exist.
The animal, a mix between a male lion and a female tiger, that the fictional movie character likes to draw has come to life with a young female liger that arrived in Reno last week at the Sierra Safari Zoo.
Officials there say the unnamed 8-month-old liger was donated by its owner from Illinois.
By Kathryn Reed
A two-hour sentencing hearing may have seemed long for the more than 50 people in the courtroom, but for those who had to wait 24 years to hear a judge say Ulysses Roberson would spend 15 years to life in prison, it was time well spent Wednesday afternoon.
Roberson, who last month was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of his son, continued to express his innocence.
Ulysses Roberson
Dressed in an orange jumpsuit, he showed no remorse, nor exhibited any with his words as he denied killing 4-year-old Alexander Olive. The boy’s body has never been found.
“He showed his true colors today by not accepting any responsibility or exhibiting any emotion,” FBI agent Chris Campion said of Roberson. “You don’t meet too many sociopaths. He is one of them.”
When both sides had their say, El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Suzanne Kingsbury said all the adults in the boy’s life had failed him.
Roberson lived with several women in the Tahoe Keys neighborhood of South Lake Tahoe. The boy is believed to have been killed in December 1985 or January 1986.
Judy Olive, the boy’s mother, forgave Roberson at Wednesday’s sentencing, just like she had done on the witness stand. However, she chose not to be in the courtroom when Roberson spoke.
Roberson asked to be able to leave when Olive gave her PowerPoint presentation, but the judge denied that request.
Olive showed slides of her life, the family members her son never met, the few pictures she has from his short life.
A hearing is scheduled for Jan. 15 to determine how much credit for time served Roberson will have taken off his sentence. The state Department of Corrections will decide where he will be imprisoned.