By Jim Sloan, Sacramento Bee Few businesses feel as threatened by global warming as the ski industry. And few resorts are poised to go to the same lengths — and expense — to combat it as Kirkwood and the hardy folks who make their homes in the snowy, windswept Kirkwood Meadows. Although only a few […]
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By Ed Vogel, Las Vegas Review-Journal RENO — A California company might become the first from another state to practice “telemedicine” in Nevada. The Board of Medical Examiners was told Friday by its lawyers that it cannot prevent the Clinician Medical Group of Bakersfield from using television technology to treat Nevadans. Board lawyers Edward Cousineau […]
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Nearly 250 students from the South Tahoe middle and high schools bands,orchestras, choirs and NJROTC will perform a Veterans Musical Tribute on Nov. 9 at South Tahoe Middle School’s multipurpose room. The free concert is from 7-8pm.
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By Kathryn Reed A valuable piece of real estate in South Lake Tahoe sits idle — used only by people taking a shortcut from Ski Run Boulevard to Highway 50. City staff hopes to have development ideas in place so the City Council can vote on them in January. “A large restaurant on the corner […]
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Learn about Slow Food Lake Tahoe on Nov. 11 at 4pm at the Dragonfly restaurant in Truckee. Slow Food Lake Tahoe is a nonprofit organization started in 2007 whose mission is to reconnect people to the enjoyment of good, clean and fair food, as well as clean and fair goods, and to educate the community […]
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Publisher’s note: This is an excerpt from a longer story about fireplaces in Western ski towns. At California’s North Lake Tahoe is a historic fireplace handcrafted in the 1940s by Wayne Poulsen, who founded the Squaw Valley USA ski resort after World War II. “Wayne and his wife built the European-style fireplace by hand for […]
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The United States Amateur Snowboarding Association puts on a series of grassroots snowboarding competitions all over the nation and Sierra Resort is once again be the home base for the South Shore Series. Events include a Giant Slalom, Slalom, GS, Boardercross, Superpipe, and Slopestyle. Locals Al and Donna Vano, together with the core of USASA […]
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An altercation at Red Hawk casino near Shingles Springs last month culminated in the arrests of five people Friday, seizure of several guns, ecstasy, marijuana and cash. Search warrants were executed simultaneously at four locations by El Dorado County sheriff’s SWAT, Folsom Police SWAT, Sacramento County sheriff’s SWAT and Stanislaus County sheriff’s SWAT. One was […]
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Maggie O’Neill, Reno Gazette-Journal When Paralympian Mark Wellman, 49, answers his phone in Truckee, he picks it up with two short words: “No Limits.” That’s the name of the motivational business he started in 1991, but also a brief summation on his attitude on living. Read the whole story
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Does having an eco broker represent you in a real estate transaction make a difference? It all depends on what your beliefs are about the house you want to buy as well as having an agent who knows what she is selling. Listen to Realtor Cheryl Murakami on K-Tahoe FM 96.1/AM 590 (www.kthoradio.com) on Saturday […]
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