The four partners who purchased the Tahoe City Golf Course last year are gathering public input on concepts and designs about current and future uses. There will be two open houses — March 26 from 6 to 8pm and March 27 from noon to 3pm — at the Golf Course Club House, 251 North Lake […]
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The slopes are turning to spring conditions with areas of firm packed snow softening with the daytime temperatures. Here is the March 24 ski report. — Curtis Fong
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Starting in the 1920s as Connolley’s Bijou at the South Shore, it evolved from tent cabins and beach to include this large white frame building between Highway 50 and the shoreline for lodging, dining, and recreation. Before being razed in 1973, the building had a varied history, including Connolly’s Pancake House (note changed spelling) and […]
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By Kathryn Reed NORDEN – First impression – a muddy parking lot and tired looking lodge – is not the lasting image of Royal Gorge. Endless open terrain. Rolling hills. Pines scratching the sky that is as blue as Lake Tahoe. Sun beaming down to where short-sleeves are all that’s needed. A choice of skiing […]
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William L. Fox, director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, will present an illustrated journey of art made during the Anthropocene, an informal geologic chronological term that serves to mark the evidence and extent of human activities that have had a significant global impact on the […]
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Mark Shinderman with Milbank Tweed, Hadley & MCloy LLP in Los Angeles has been selected to be the mediator in the MV Transporation-STATA case. In January, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Gregg Zive sent the case to mediation. Fairfield-based MV Transportation used to run the South Shore bus system known as BlueGo. STATA – South Tahoe […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the March 19, 2013, Sacramento Bee. Nevada state mental health officials acknowledge that they bought bus ticket tickets for at least 99 psychiatric patients and sent them to California since last July. They acknowledge one mistake, sending James Flavy Coy Brown, a 48-year-old man who had been housed in […]
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By USSA OLYMPIC VALLEY — Triple World Champion Ted Ligety (Park City) capped a career best season Saturday with massive 1.48 second wire-to-wire slalom victory to close men’s competition at the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships in Squaw Valley. A week ago, Ligety won the final Audi FIS Alpine World Cup giant slalom of the […]
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Brave “swimmers” plunged into the bitter cold water of Lake Tahoe at Zephyr Cove on March 23 in the annual Polar Plunge to raise money for Special Olympics. The outside and water temps were about the same — 41 degrees. This video shot by Bill Kingman shows the fifth of five groups of participants.
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By Dan McGee, Northern Nevada Business Weekly A dachshund got Paul and Joy Schouweiler of Hadji Paul’s Chicken and Feed into the chicken business. Paul Schouweiler’s wife, Joy Schouweiler, who breeds dachshunds, planned to trade a puppy for chickens in late 2007. Thinking she would get 40 chickens in exchange for the puppy, she got […]
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