Explore Tahoe Visitor Center Winter Speaker Series Kick Off is Dec. 23 at 6pm. Mark McLauglin, a Tahoe weather historian and local author, will present “Reign of the Sierra Storm King”, a history of the most devastating storms to hit the Sierras and a look at how climate change is impacting Lake Tahoe. A $5 […]
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Publisher’s note: This is reprinted from the July 1973 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. Our July program is really an exciting one! Guest speaker will be Velma Comstock Eden, the only person alive today to have actually lived at Tallac House [‘Lucky’ Baldwin’s world-famous resort hotel that existed as Tahoe’s southwest shore between the years […]
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Lake Valley Fire Protection District announces the 2010 schedule for the Santa Claus engine: Dec. 15: Angora Highlands, Lake Tahoe Blvd between Boulder Mountain and North Upper Truckee, and North Upper Truckee to Grizzly Mountain – including the Mt. Rainier neighborhoods. Dec. 16: North Upper Truckee from Grizzly Mountain to Highway 50. Dec. 17: Christmas […]
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Daisy is a 2-year-old black Labrador, perhaps mixed with a leggy dog like a Weimaraner. She is very tall and slim. Daisy’s owners lost their home and couldn’t keep her. Daisy is responding by trying to bond with everyone she meets at the shelter. She is very affectionate, and would like to sit close to […]
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St. Theresa School is presenting a Nativity play “O Little Town of Bethlehem and Christmas Carol” on Dec. 14th at Grace Hall from 6-7pm. Refreshments will be served. Location is 1041 Lyons Ave., South Lake Tahoe. For information, call (530) 544.8944.
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The Telluride Mountain Film Festival comes to North Lake Tahoe Dec. 16 and Dec. 17. Part of the Squaw Valley Institute educational events, the two-day celebration kicks off with a VIP Private Opening Reception and Film Showing at Gallery Keoki in the Village at Squaw Valley Dec. 16 at 6:30pm. This private party is limited […]
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By Bonnie Mattoon, Reno Gazette-Journal Fred Hauseur, owner and operator of Custom Firearms & Gunsmithing in Mound House, learned the art of gunsmithing from his father who owned a small gun shop in Susanville, Calif. They worked together for more than 28 years first in Susanville, then in Applegate, Calif., and now Mound House. The […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee EUREKA – Joey Burger was 14 when his naturalist parents moved from Santa Cruz to settle in the coastal forest of Humboldt County. Local hippies and homesteaders welcomed the new kid in the woods. They schooled him in the regional art – growing marijuana. “It was never looked upon as […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — Parents. They are the common denominator of the eight South Tahoe High students selected to be Young Women of Distinction. Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe each year singles out seniors who have risen to the top of their class beyond having exceptional grade point averages. Still, the averages are […]
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By Kathryn Reed Reviewing a Pulitzer Prize-winning piece of literature written by a Nobel Prize-winning author seems a bit unnecessary, but here goes. “The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck has stood the test of time. The novel was first published in 1931. It won the Pulitzer. In 1937, it was made into a motion […]
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