By Nadja Brandt, Bloomberg News Spa resorts such as Vermont’s Stowe Mountain Lodge and the Broadmoor in Colorado are using wall climbing, carpentry classes and yoga to lure corporate clients accustomed to little more than free breakfast as a hotel perk. Stowe Mountain has boosted its corporate group bookings with such programs as the “Naked […]
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On the occasion of Mark Twain’s 175th birthday, the Mark Twain Cultural Center will host a celebration and the old boy himself (impersonator McAvoy Layne) will hold forth on the balance of the autobiography that Twain asked be withheld for 100 years after his death. The celebration, which honors one of Lake Tahoe’s most well-known […]
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It was wall-to-wall people at Mo’s Place on Thursday night for Sierra-at-Tahoe’s annual Pray for Snow party. The crowd dominated by twentysomethings is eager for the season to begin. Plenty of people had Sierra garb on. Freebies like passes, gear and beanies were being given away throughout the night for the various contests like the […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau The new pediatric dental office in El Dorado County is no ordinary dental office. The 42-foot-long van will have no permanent address. Instead, it will make its way to nine schools around the county each year. This week it was parked outside the former Al Tahoe Elementary School in South Lake Tahoe. […]
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Shipping packages to friends and family around the world in time for the holiday season can be as simple as clicking here. Whether ordering shipping supplies, printing postage, getting information about mailing guidelines, filling out required customs forms or requesting free package pickup, the U.S. Postal Service is ready to help international shippers get a […]
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By Guy Rocha Despite claims to the contrary, former President Ulysses Grant didn’t get into hot water at Walley’s Hot Springs or Steam-boat Springs. Grant, accompanied by his wife and son on a world tour, visited Nevada in October 1879. Grant had long since left the military as a Union Civil War hero and recently […]
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By Kathryn Reed Veterans tend to carry scars upon their body, mind and sole. The scars never completely fade away – whether they have left the battlefield or left the service. Speakers at South Lake Tahoe’s Veterans Day ceremony at the packed American Legion Hall reiterated this reminder in their various ways, many on the […]
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Publisher’s note: The following is from the May 1973 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. The following letter was sent by our Forestry Service Committee chairman, Barbara Smith, May 3, 1973. If you feel as Barbara does, please send a letter on this matter to Mr. Schmidt. Dear Mr. Schmidt, We of the Lake Tahoe Historical […]
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By Susan Skorupa, Reno Gazette-Journal More than a hundred years of Reno history, stories of the Comstock Lode and a big white bear fill up three new books by local authors. “Remembering Reno” (Trade Paper Press, $16.95 paperback) is filled with nearly 130 historic photos of Reno and the surrounding area. The pictorial excursion begins […]
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The Truckee Community Christmas program is asking locals to open their hearts to help make the holidays brighter for several hundred less fortunate local families and individuals. Serving the community in its seventeenth year as an all-volunteer umbrella organization coordinating the efforts of several groups that rally to assist fellow townspeople in need, the Truckee […]
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