Reno Gazette-Journal Truckee Tahoe Community Foundation reported the highest growth of assets of all community foundations in the state of California during the 2008 fiscal year. The foundation’s assets grew 25 percent, from $12 million in 2007 to $15 million in 2008. “As the TTCF passes its 10th anniversary, it has become known for effective […]
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The 2010 Winter Olympics’ torch relay has had some interesting moments with its windy Canadian route. A polar bear passed in front of the convoy during a visit to appropriately-named Alert (Canada’s most northern inhabited community). And more recently, elephants, reindeer and camels walked along-side the relay. There was the time a young man proposed […]
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Ticket go on sale Jan. 9 at 10am for Sammy Hagar and The Wabos, who will play at Harrah’s South Shore Room May 7-8. Tickets are only available through TicketMaster outlets. They are $75 plus tax, general admission. Must be 21 to attend. Hagar returns to Lake Tahoe with The Wabos to help celebrate the […]
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In addition to their duties here at the college, many of the Lake Tahoe Community College Art Department faculty and staff are practicing artists in their own right. An exhibit of their work will go on display in the Student Gallery, located in the LTCC commons, Jan. 9 and run through March 20. This exhibition […]
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By Victor Calderon, Reno Gazette-Journal Napoleon Dynamite was right: a liger does exist. The animal, a mix between a male lion and a female tiger, that the fictional movie character likes to draw has come to life with a young female liger that arrived in Reno last week at the Sierra Safari Zoo. Officials there […]
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South Shore artist and poet Yasmin Sayyed will display her abstract paintings in Lake Tahoe Community College’s Foyer Gallery starting Jan. 9. Born in New York of Cape Verdean and Caribbean ancestry, much of her professional life has been spent as an educator, researcher and psycho-educational therapist. Sayyed has had a lifelong passion for making […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee Sierra Wildlife Rescue, an El Dorado County-based volunteer group that rescues and rehabilitates injured and orphaned wild animals, begins the new year in new quarters. With its 2010 class offerings for current and prospective volunteers scheduled to begin Jan. 14, volunteers will hold a work day Jan. 9 to put […]
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“The Laramie Project†is a docu-drama about the 1998 hate-crime murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student who was brutally beaten by two young men, tied to a fence, and left to die. Writer-director Moisés Kaufman and actors of New York’s Tectonic Theatre Project journeyed to Laramie to interview townspeople about the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Alex Cushing left his East Coast law practice to move to Squaw Valley in the 1940s, soon convinced PanAm pilot Wayne Poulson to sell him 600 acres in what is now Olympic Valley and then spent $100,000 to build a ski lodge near what is KT-22. By 1954, Cushing was entertaining the […]
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By Henry Brean, Las Vegas Review-Journal In as little as three weeks, the Shady Lady Ranch brothel plans to launch a live-action sociology experiment that could open a whole new market for the state’s legal bordellos or destroy the industry altogether. So go the predictions for what might be the biggest change to hit the […]
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