Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News sent Nancy Gibson, who came on board in April as supervisor of Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, a series of questions. She obliged us with the following responses in between countless meetings and unpacking boxes. Name?: Nancy Gibson Age?: Umm. How about, I have 33 years of Forest Service experience […]
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Ben Kunibe, longtime South Lake Tahoe resident, died April 30, 2011. Mr. Kunibe was 93. Mr. Kunibe was an active member of the Optimist Club. Last weekend he participated in the club’s annual Easter egg hunt. He died of heart failure at Renown Medical Center in Reno. In November he was profiled on Lake Tahoe […]
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A meeting with the National Council of Senior Citizens resulted in President John F. Kennedy designating May 1963 as Senior Citizens Month, encouraging the nation to pay tribute in some way to older people across the country. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter’s proclamation changed the name to Older Americans Month, a time to celebrate those […]
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On May 4, Bona Fide Books of Meyers will launch its first publication, “Permanent Vacation: Twenty Writers on Work and Life in Our National Parks, Volume 1: The West,” with a reading at Lake Tahoe Community College. The 7pm event in the Aspen Room at the South Lake Tahoe college will feature local essayists Joseph […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee Preliminary work for construction of a new High Sierra Crossing Museum at Donner Memorial State Park will get under way this week. The new visitor center has been in the works for several years, according to Scott Elliott, acting superintendent for the State Parks sector that includes Donner Memorial. The […]
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By Kathryn Reed “That’s so gay” isn’t a phrase that sits well with Joemae Santos. The eighth-grader at South Tahoe Middle School wrote a poem about how hurtful those three words are. How derogatory they are. How teachers say just let it go. How she isn’t letting them go. Her words, her passion, her delivery […]
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By Siobhan McAndrew, Reno Gazette-Journal For years, Wendy Avansino of Reno paid $75 for her favorite face cream at her beauty salon. “I’d look for other products with the same ingredient — alpha hydroxy — at the grocery store or Wal-Mart but none of them ever compared,” Avansino said. “The amount of alpha hydroxy was […]
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Generation HOPE and Friends of Ally clubs at Lake Tahoe Community College are bringing “Bullied, A Student, a School, and a Case that Made History” to the South Lake Tahoe campus. The documentary narrates the story of a student who, because of his sexual orientation, was the subject of unrelenting bullying by his classmates. This […]
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Barton Foundation is seeking nominations for the third annual Spirit of Philanthropy Award. This award recognizes an outstanding individual, family, couple or foundation who has demonstrated extraordinary dedication to the health of the South Lake Tahoe community and to Barton Health in particular, through their good works and/or financial generosity. The honoree also must have: […]
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By Stephen Ward Fittingly, the idea that granted five Lake Tahoe Community College students the opportunity to conduct an experiment aboard a zero-gravity plane was created out of thin air. “We came back from winter break and only had a little time,” Andrew Burton, one of the students, said about drafting a proposal to send […]
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