By Jason Epperson JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — If soldiers with the 3rd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade are sent to Afghanistan, they’ll have to move equipment over mountains, damaged roads and rough terrain. They have a way to do it: “sling-load” it under helicopters. Arctic Sappers from the 6th Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Airborne) gave instructions on […]
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Sierra Nevada College presents Great Basin Exteriors: A Photographic Survey, a free public exhibition of 30 photographs by three regional artists – Adam Jahiel, Daniel Cheek and Nolan Preece – which examines loss, change and abandonment in the American West. In this exhibit, the Great Basin is roughly defined as the area between the Wasatch […]
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Publisher’s note: This is reprinted with permission from the August 1976 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. Several months ago, our newsletter carried a report of Linda Mendizabal’s interview with Mrs. Meliba Vallet Meier, whose father was chef at Tallac House some 65 years ago and whose playmate at the time was Gladys Comstock. Since that […]
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It is time to get spooked during the third annual Historical Haunted Walking Tour in downtown Truckee on Oct. 20 and Oct. 21. Old-timers will tell historic tales of the Wild West, ladies of nocturnal delight will sing a tune and entertaining characters will share titillating folklore along the nearly two-hour walk. Covering Truckee’s most […]
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Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe and the South Lake Tahoe branch of the American Association for University Women are partnering with Aston Lakeland Village to bring an original play about women’s contribution to U.S. history to the South Tahoe High School theater on Oct. 12 at 7pm. “We Did It For You! – Women’s […]
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On Oct. 7 at 7 pm Lake Tahoe Community College will host a reading by Jason Schossler, winner of the 2010 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize. The reading will launch the release of “Mud Cakes,” Schossler’s first poetry collection. The event, part of the LTCC Writers’ Series, will take place in the library of the […]
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Nevada will host 18 contestants from all over the world who are competing in the Miss Chinese Cosmos Semi-Finals. The Sept. 23-30 event will take place in Lake Tahoe and Reno. The contest moves around the world each year, last year taking place in Australia. This is the first time the pageant has been in […]
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By James S. Fell, Los Angeles Times Do you ever feel like making a voodoo doll in the image of your boss, stabbing it full of pins, twisting its head off, then setting it on fire? I remember those days. Speaking of the old days, here’s to the good old mammoth-slaying Stone Age, when we […]
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The Kiwanis Club of Lake Tahoe is hosting “Murder in an English Manor” on Oct. 1 at 6:30pm at the South Tahoe High School theater. The event is to raise money for Friday Night Lights — aka renovations to the football field. The dinner, auction and “murder” tickets are $30. Call (530) 541.6487 for information […]
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Publisher’s note: This is reprinted with permission from the January 1976 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. One day, late in September, 1975, Mrs. Meier phoned to inquire as to the whereabouts of Gladys and Velma Comstock. Mrs. Meier explained they were her playmates during several summers she spent here 65 years ago. I seized the […]
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