The Lake Tahoe Community College Theater Arts Department is having auditions for its fall production of “The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later” on Sept. 24 at 7pm in the college’s Duke Theatre. This production commemorates the 15th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s death. Several events will be presented at the college in association with this production, […]
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• Sally Gunter is taking over as Heavenly Mountain Resort’s communications manager since Russ Pecoraro has been promoted to Vail Resorts’ director of communications for the Mountain Division. • Cara Whitley has been hired to be Squaw Valley Ski Holding’s chief marketing officer. • Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce’s last Business After Hours […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – Make it look pretty and be functional were the overwhelming sentiments of people who want to make Meyers be more than it is today. Since the last meeting in February about the future of this South Shore enclave the advisory board has come up with a draft area plan for […]
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Publisher’s note: This letter was sent Sept. 9 to the California Senate president pro tem and speaker of the California Assembly. Dear Senator Steinberg and Speaker Perez, On Sept. 3, 2013, amendments were made to SB630 which establish a new general fund account, the Lake Tahoe Science and Lake Improvement Account. Earlier amendments were focused […]
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By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times Overall, young children in the U.S. maintained high vaccination rates in 2012, officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. But researchers also said there were 159 reported cases of measles between Jan. 1 and Aug. 24 this year — a higher number than usual […]
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By Teri Mizuhara Even professionals can find it difficult to comprehend the speed at which a wildfire can move, so for the public it can be tough to understand it unless you have witnessed it firsthand. With any luck, you may never have such a life changing experience. Trying to predict what causes a small […]
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By Lauren Schuker Blum and Candace Jackson, Wall Street Journal What attracts this generation of wealthy second-home buyers: ziplines, kids clubs and grilled cheese. For decades focused on golf, skiing or hunting, today’s master-planned resorts are being reimagined as fancy family camps, a trend that’s helping revive a number of struggling high-end second-home communities. Developers […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee The nonprofit Sierra State Parks Foundation has received a $1 million grant from an anonymous donor. The donor, whose gift came through the San Francisco Foundation, identified specific projects to be funded, all on Lake Tahoe’s West Shore. They include sod roof restoration at Vikingsholm, Hellman-Ehrman estate restoration, D.L. […]
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Jorge Miranda-Rivas of Incline Village was found guilty in Washoe County District Court on Sept. 11 on one count each of robbery with a deadly weapon, discharging a weapon from within a structure, assault with a deadly weapon and grand larceny of an automobile . The robbery at the Chevron in Incline occurred Jan. 2. […]
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By Cy Ryan and Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun The road to Nevada offering online poker to residents of other states is long and tortuous and gaming regulators took a step in that journey Wednesday when the state Gaming Control Board conducted a workshop meeting on a proposal for companies to offer progressive jackpots […]
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