Barry Blanchard and his film “The Mountain, An Arrow Pointing Up” will be the fifth and final installment of the 12th annual Alpenglow Sports Winter Film Series. The event is Feb. 22 at 7pm at Squaw Valleys’ Olympic Lodge. Blanchard, one of Canada’s foremost alpinists, will tell why he’s dedicated his entire adult life to […]
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By Rick Gross The past nine years have been extraordinary for the stock market. From March 2009 to the end of 2017, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, a benchmark of market performance, rose close to 300 percent. In 2017 alone, the index gained more than 21 percent. If you are an investor who has […]
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By Wes Siler, Outside Human society is made possible by rules, both written and unwritten. Yet there’s no such series of concrete, accepted rules for dog owners, and that’s becoming a problem. Take my experience this past weekend. In need of a quick getaway, my girlfriend and I booked a room at the Kimpton Goodland in […]
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation Sacramento Field Office is putting on a Teen Academy for high school juniors attending class within the 34 counties the office serves. The full-day academy will be March 23 at FBI Sacramento Field Office headquarters in Roseville. There is no cost to attend. Applications are available online. The deadline to […]
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The women of the Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows ski patrol have created scholarships for avalanche safety education through the Sierra Avalanche Center. The calendar proceeds, which exceeded $20,000, will support community scholarships and patrol educational development for multiple years. Applications for the scholarships are open now on the Sierra Avalanche Center website and available […]
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By Melinda Myers It’s time to break out the seeds and potting mix to start your garden plants indoors. It’s a great way to keep your green thumb in shape over winter. Plus, you’ll save money, increase your variety of plants and jump start the growing season when you start seeds under LED grow lights. […]
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By Susan Wood “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King Jr. made the powerful statement with such poise about a time of social movement, I wished I had written it. It resonates with me to this day. Venerable journalist Dan Rather used it near the end […]
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Arts for the Schools in Truckee is bringing Rahim AlHaj, a virtuoso oud musician and composer who was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and began playing the oud (the grandfather of all stringed instruments) at age 9, to town on Feb. 2. In 1991, after the first Gulf War, AlHaj was forced to leave Iraq due […]
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South Lake Tahoe Rotary Club is putting on a speech contest in March for high school students. Ages 14-18 may enter the Rotary District 5190 speech contest. Speeches must be 5-7 minutes in length with the topic Rotary is making a difference. What about me? Winners of the local contest will progress to the area […]
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By Megan Michelson, Co-op Journal Exactly one year ago, Joe Zuiches kissed his half-sleeping wife, Mikki, on the forehead as he left his house in the dark, at 3:30 in the morning on Jan. 24, 2017. Joe was on his way to his job as a ski patroller at Squaw Valley. He’d once read that […]
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