Nevada State Parks invites the public to a weekend of free historic events at Mormon Station State Historic Park in Genoa. June 18 is Pioneer Living History Day with the Sierra Nevada and Truckee Meadows Mormon Pioneers from 10am-4pm. Learn how to make rope and corn-husk dolls, watch Dutch-oven cooking demonstrations, have children play pioneer […]
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After a national review of exemplary children’s museum efforts conducted by Metlife Foundation and Association of Children’s Museum, the KidZone Museum, a nonprofit children’s museum in Truckee, was one of the three museums to receive top honors and a $10,000 cash award. The educational experiences at the KidZone Museum are highly interactive, creating a place […]
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Immortalized by Brooks and Dunn in “Just Another Neon Night” and followed by cowboys with the pro-rodeo circuit with an almost a cult-like fervor, Ricky & the Redstreaks is returning to the El Dorado County Fairgrounds for a reunion concert that promises to fill the house. It was 1968 at the El Dorado County Fair […]
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By Kathryn Reed It was getting to the point that the store looked more used than the items on the shelves. Fourteen years after the Attic Thrift Store moved to its Lodi Avenue location, it finally got a thorough spring-cleaning. It was so intense the shop was closed for six weeks before reopening last month. […]
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North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District IAFF Local No. 2139 Incline Village and Crystal Bay firefighters are putting on the 2nd annual Firefighters’ Poker Pedal June 25. Event registration begins at 1pm at Great Basin Brewery, 5525 South Virginia St., Reno. The event raises funds for Northern Nevada Children’s Cancer Foundation. The ride starts at […]
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Aries is a sweet young Husky-shepherd mix who is too smart for his own good. He can climb fences — the last time he did that, he ended up at the shelter and then his owner moved away and left him. He is friendly and playful with all people and dogs, and walks nicely on […]
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The folks at the El Dorado County Fair are offering a special incentive to make the trek to Placerville a little easier for Tahoe residents. The $2 Tahoe Trek Ticket offers entry to the June 16-19 fair for $2 per person per day. That’s more than 70 percent off the price of an adult ticket […]
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Submissions are open now through Aug. 31 for the 2011 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize. Bona Fide Books of Meyers annually awards The Melissa Lanitis Gregory Prize for an unpublished collection of poems. Lanitis was a South Lake Tahoe artist who died in 2009. This award created by Bona Fide Books Publisher Kim Wyatt is […]
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By Kathryn Reed “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” Those words from Mt. Tallac High School counselor Amy Jackson resonated with the students sitting before her in their blue graduation gowns. The 45 students who received their diploma Friday morning have overcome obstacles many adults twice their age have yet to – and […]
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Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (Toccata) launches its 6th Big Blue Summer Music Fest with a concert series entitled Baroque to Broadway. Flutist Josue Casillas will be the featured guest along with the Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and vocal soloists. Works by C.P.E. Bach, Vivaldi, and Barber will be performed along with Broadway favorites, […]
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