Publisher’s note: To find out where Warren Miller’s film will be shown in Nevada (which includes Lake Tahoe locations), click here. To find out where the film will is in California, click here. John Shevchuk, Daily Campus The Bushnell was pushed to capacity at six o’clock Saturday night with skiers and snowboarders alike. A typical […]
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Publisher’s note: This is an excerpt from a longer story about fireplaces in Western ski towns. At California’s North Lake Tahoe is a historic fireplace handcrafted in the 1940s by Wayne Poulsen, who founded the Squaw Valley USA ski resort after World War II. “Wayne and his wife built the European-style fireplace by hand for […]
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Maggie O’Neill, Reno Gazette-Journal When Paralympian Mark Wellman, 49, answers his phone in Truckee, he picks it up with two short words: “No Limits.” That’s the name of the motivational business he started in 1991, but also a brief summation on his attitude on living. Read the whole story
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Eldridge Moores, with the UC Davis Department of Geology, will speak Dec. 9 about Assembling California and Western Nevada: Point Reyes to Lake Tahoe. The landscapes of California and western Nevada have a long and storied past including plate movements, granitic intrusions, volcanism, and collisions of island arcs and continental fragments with the western US […]
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By Kathryn Reed A few drivers might be regretting dodging the small suitcase in the middle of Tahoe Keys Boulevard the other morning. South Tahoe public works crews saw it and knew to remove the obstacle. What they didn’t know is inside was $5,000 in two bundles of one hundred dollar bills. Before retrieving it […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — “My mantra is if it’s in a brochure, I don’t want to know about it.†Travel guru Peter Greenberg is not going to endear himself to tourism executives with that sentiment – and he’s fine with that. He is all about giving listeners of his weekly worldwide radio show what […]
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By Susan Skorupa, Reno Gazette-Journal Right from the beginning, women have made history in Nevada. The Nevada Women’s History Project, which works to highlight the stories of those women of the Silver State, holds its annual authors luncheon on Saturday to raise money to continue its mission. Mysteries for All Ages is the project’s gathering […]
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By Denise Sloan Smart I first fell in love with Norton Buffalo in the summer of 1977. The room was dark, save for a few twinkling lights coming from the radio station’s control board. It was about 2am and it was just me and Norton’s first album, “Lovin’ in the Valley of the Moon,†from […]
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Ashlee Smith’s efforts to help young victims of the 2007 Angora Fire are being recognized on the national level. The 10-year-old from Reno will be in New York on Thursday to receive an award from the nonprofit World of Children. She will be on “The Early Show” Wednesday morning. Smith collects toys and books not […]
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Nearly 250 students from the South Tahoe middle and high schools bands,orchestras, choirs and NJROTC will perform a concert on Nov. 9 at South Tahoe Middle School’s multipurpose room. The free concert is from 7-8pm. The program is listed below and will include familiar patriotic music and songs that will pay tribute to our veterans […]
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