Yesterday I literally had to fight back tears after the first hour. I am not ashamed to say that, but their suffering was very emotional and they have been waiting for some hope. One patient was seventeen and looked seven. She had terrible deformities from previous burns, but also a belly full of ascites. I […]
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By Maggie O’Neill, Reno Gazette-Journal Christi Cakiroglu has learned a lot about trash over the years. As a result, the 38-year-old executive director of Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful has an intense love-hate relationship with that thing called litter. She loves to pick it up, but she hates to find it — especially in open spaces […]
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The second presentation in the Discussions on Education series, a collaboration between Sierra Nevada College and Lake Tahoe School Parents Association, will be Jan. 13 at 6:30pm in rooms 139/141 of the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences on the SNC campus. The film, “Two Million Minutes”, takes a startling look at how the three superpowers […]
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For the past eight years, the North Lake Tahoe-Truckee Leadership Program has been creating opportunities for potential leaders to broaden their understanding of the region and its issues while developing and honing their leadership skills. Led by Shannon Beets, vice president for Institutional Effectiveness and associate provost at Sierra Nevada College, the program tasks participants […]
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Publisher’s note: This is from the September 1973 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. By Lorene Greuner A group of fortunate Historical Society members met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Whitney on Sunday evening, August 19th. They were fortunate because they experienced a guided tour of the former Camp Chonokis which was operated […]
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South Tahoe Middle School’s beloved PE teacher, Scott Hudson, died Jan. 2 after a courageous battle against cancer. Mr. Hudson Scott passed away at home with his family. A graduate of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, he joined the staff at Tahoe Valley Elementary School in 1985 as a fourth-grade teacher. He went on to […]
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Cheech and Chong are cute little beagle-Chihuahua mixes who came into the shelter together. They are house trained and have good manners. They like to play with other dogs and didn’t chase the cats they met at the shelter. They are very affectionate, and would like to go home together. Cheech and Chong are neutered, […]
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2011 will be the eighth year South Lake Tahoe will have a V-Day celebration. This year our community has once again been granted the privilege of producing an Eve Ensler production. It’s especially exciting because after a two-year break, local organizers are bringing back “The Vagina Monologues”, after a successful two years of “A Memory, […]
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE — Driving into Northstar-at-Tahoe and schussing down the slopes it doesn’t seem like anything is different. For now, the experience is the same. But with Vail Resorts buying the North Shore resort in October and Bill Rock coming on board in December as chief operating officer, change is inevitable. The first […]
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By Leslie Savan, The Nation For decades now, there’s been a gap between the left’s and the right’s ability to talk populist. Liberals tend to trip over their own subtlety, uncertainty and/or ambivalence (an example of which you maybe just read), while the right produces categorical words that stick: media elite, death tax, and of […]
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