By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — More than 300 people filled the convention center at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe on Saturday night in support of Soroptimist International of Tahoe Sierra. The service club’s annual Elegant Evening surpassed last year’s attendance, which was just less than 300. The money raised from the $50 tickets and silent auction items […]
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During the Olympic Games last month, Procter & Gamble presented a $10,000 check to Squaw Valley native Julia Mancuso, who was fresh from winning a silver medal in women’s downhill and another in the women’s Olympic combined. Procter and Gamble, Crest & Oral-B recognized Mancuso as one of five Team USA Olympians for the “Smile […]
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By Kathryn Reed One month ago today, Marty and Leslie DeTarr’s vacation plans got shaken up a bit in a way that could never have been predicted. The South Lake Tahoe couple was in Chile when the deadly and devastating 8.8 earthquake struck the South American country. They were supposed to fly back to the […]
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By Ed Vogel, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Mrs. Joe Leavy was sitting on the bed in her home up the road from the Hoover Dam construction site when a mammoth wind on July 24, 1931, shook the house and carried her out of a window and into the sky. Leavy was spirited away […]
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Bruce Rettig of Meyers was one of 11 people honored Thursday with a VolunTourism Awards at the Nevada Commission on Tourism’s 20th Rural Roundup conference. “Volunteers are vital to promoting tourism in rural Nevada because they care deeply about enhancing their community’s tourism attractions, and their work is a labor of love,” Lt. Gov. Brian […]
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During Earth Hour on March 27 at 8:30pm, hundreds of millions of people around the world will turn off their lights for one hour as a call to action on climate change. From Mongolia to Argentina, the Arctic to Antarctica, from the Cook Islands to Russia and across the United States, lights at homes, businesses, […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — “In spite of all the progress we have made in the last 100 years, women and children are the most oppressed group in the world, including our own country.” Cathy Standiford, president of Soroptimist International of the Americas, conveyed that sobering reality as the guest speaker Wednesday of Soroptimist International […]
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By Ashley Power, Los Angeles Times You’d expect some weird things in Candace Wheeler’s work space, since she helps manage burial grounds near the former Comstock Lode, and the 120-pound sleeping cherub on her filing cabinet certainly fit the bill. Someone had swiped it from a Virginia City cemetery decades ago. A woman rediscovered it […]
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The 5th annual STARS of Tomorrow Talent Competition is April 22 at the South Tahoe Middle School Theater from 6-9pm. The competition is open to students in grades 9-12 on the South Shore, California and Nevada. Applicants will be judged on technique, difficulty, staging, and presentation. The competition will be open to soloists, duets, trios, […]
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Grammy winner Michael McDonald brings his instantly recognizable and smooth voice to the Lake Tahoe Music Festival’s final show. McDonald performs at Northstar-At-Tahoe Resort Aug. 7 as part of the festival’s six-concert season taking place July 22–Aug. 7. McDonald has been a fixture in American pop music for over three decades and continues to serenade […]
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