By Alissa Nourse Happy New Year to all of you! It seems fitting that my first article for Lake Tahoe News readers is to celebrate January 2012 and National Mentoring Month. First, I want to thank all of the current and past mentors at Tahoe Youth & Family Services and mentors throughout our community. You […]
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History will repeat itself Jan. 15 at Ed Z’berg Sugar Pine Point State Park as the Eagle Wings Dance Group, descendants of the Paiute, Shoshone and Washoe tribes, will be offering traditional songs and dances sacred to the tribes represented to the creator-God in thanks as part of the closing ceremonies for Olympic Heritage Celebration […]
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Scott Lankford, author of “Tahoe Beneath the Surface: The Hidden Stories of America’s Largest Mountain Lake”, speaks about his book on Feb. 15 from 6-7pm. The event is at Explore Tahoe: An Urban Trailhead, 4114 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. A $5 donation is requested. A $5 flat rate is offered in the Heavenly […]
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By Jane Braxton Little, Sacramento Bee GREENVILLE – Four years after the Moonlight fire roared through 65,000 acres of forest near this Plumas County town, the damage continues to sear the rural community. A local logger is challenging the U.S. Forest Service about logs removed from the burned area. How this dispute is resolved could […]
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The art of Reno artist Mark Hammon is on display at the North Tahoe Event Center in Kings Beach until March. Hammon’s photography is the culmination of his love and appreciation of nature and the world around him, his visual acuity, and a strong interest in technology. He shoots locally and throughout the Western United […]
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Snowball is a very sweet 4-year-old shorthair cat with beautiful blue eyes. She has lived with other cats and children, and would make a great addition to just about any home. Snowball is spayed, microchipped, and vaccinated. She is at the El Dorado County Animal Services shelter in Meyers, along with many other dogs and […]
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By Robert Schimmel I am not given to making New Year’s resolutions because they are usually too intimidating to fulfill and therefore create a failure mentality or become a joke. Taking stock along the way, making small adjustments inch by inch keeps me closer to the path I’ve chosen and less frustrated. On the other […]
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Following its premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the documentary feature film “Miss Representation” will be screened at the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation Queen of Heart’s lunch Feb. 15 at the Resort at Squaw Creek in Olympic Valley. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, “Miss Representation” exposes how mainstream media contribute to the […]
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The Haldan Art Gallery at Lake Tahoe Community College will open “Off the Press” on Jan. 12. The exhibition of contemporary printmaking from artists of the Bay Area starts with an artists’ reception from 6-8pm that Thursday. The exhibit will run through March 16. More information is online. The photography of Nina Aegerter will be […]
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Mark McLaughlin, author of “Longboards to Olympics: A Century of Tahoe Winter Sports”, presents stories and photos of the men and women who made Tahoe a world class ski mecca. The March 14 6-7pm event is part of the Explore Tahoe Winter Lecture Series. The event is at Explore Tahoe: An Urban Trailhead, 4114 Lake […]
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