Usually when I go through a bout of insomnia, I lay in bed reminiscing and thinking of new story lines for future blog postings. However the last couple of nights and early mornings I’ve been fantasizing about a very peculiar idea. It comes by way of to ships that have been and are still important…

A year or so ago, a former co-worker asked, “What do you think is the best way yo go about starting a historical preservation project?” My answer was quick, “Start with yourself and work outward.”

Sitting in the morgue, with all the previous day, months and years of newspapers, I was working on my 10th or perhaps 11th obituary of the day.  It was quiet and I had everything I needed for possible research on whoever’s passing I was chronicling. Liz came in with a cup of coffee for me,…

It was jus’ a few minutes before midnight, Christmas eve. My relief, Neil, had arrived and placed his backpack down on the table between the talk-show studio and the large window facing outside. We were in the middle of talking about shift-change and I was updating him on top news stories and such when we…

When I first saw her picture and before I heard her name, I thought I knew her. That’s because she looks remarkably like a young woman named Jeanine I used to work with and even DJ’d for her at her wedding reception. A Nevada native, Jeanine Bonnet grew up in Yerington and lived in Oklahoma…

“The Waver,” has died at his home in Iowa at the age of 75. Ed Carlson was an institution in Reno from 1974 to 2007 when he moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to be close to family. He used to wave at drivers in Reno, then hitch-hike south to Carson City, where he waved some more before hitch-hiking…

He was perhaps the the most popular air talent in Reno during the mid-80s and early 90’s. Wild Bill Cody, voted as the region’s best radio personality for six years dating back to at least the early 1990s, is dead at age 62. The news is hard to take. I swear we were all in…

Along with the Lake Tahoe Regional Plan Update, “Mobility 2035” was also approved by regional board in December 2012. Mobility 2035 is a coordinated transportation improvement plan that helps reduce the environmental impact of transportation, create walkable communities, and alternatives to driving at Lake Tahoe. It also allows the Region to achieve targets for reducing…

When I was in high school and on the track team, I wore Adidas track shoes. They were blue with three white stripes that I stained yellow, so it would go with our school colors. I had no idea at the time about the history behind the  style of track shoe I owned. Christoph Von…

“Smith River, Calif.  (UPI) —  An overnight motel guest “went berserk” Sunday night and killed four persons with a high-powered rifle.” That’s the dateline from a newspaper clipping I have from 1975. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 23rd, 1951. He had also been in trouble with the law, having robbed and beaten a man…