By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe residents may not protest by the hundreds or thousands like larger areas, but they were part of Friday’s nationwide solidarity movement that is part of the larger Occupy Wall Street movement which started two months ago. Horns honked and fists pumped from the vehicles that passed the approximately 20 people […]
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By Kathryn Reed When the National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 was adopted, the assumption was Nordic and Alpine skiing were the only activities a ski resort would ever want or need to offer its users. Clearly, things have changed. But for resorts that operate on U.S. Forest Service land, the act is […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe police Officer Johnny Poland turned in his badge and gun Nov. 15, with Wednesday being his first day on paid administrative leave. “He is under federal criminal investigation. It would be inappropriate for him to continue to serve in a day-to-day capacity,” City Manager Tony O’Rourke told Lake Tahoe […]
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By Kathryn Reed Cities across California are fearful of what a medical marijuana decision out of Long Beach will mean to them as well as what the feds may do. South Lake Tahoe and Sacramento’s city councils on Tuesday wrestled with what to do with their respective ordinances. In predictable fashion, South Lake Tahoe couldn’t […]
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By Kathryn Reed This is going to be the most expensive Thanksgiving dinner you’ve ever had. At least that’s what the American Farm Bureau Federation is saying. Each year the organization prices out what a turkey dinner for 10 people will cost. It’s gone up 13 percent since 2010 – the largest one-year spike since […]
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By Kathryn Reed While spending $10,000 to help fund the economic impact analysis of the South Shore Vision is on Tuesday’s City Council agenda, City Attorney Patrick Enright told Lake Tahoe News he wants to delay the vote. This is because no person or entity is stated on the agenda or the staff report in […]
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By Kathryn Reed With more than a foot of snow on the ground before this weekend’s storm arrived, Kirkwood is eager to power up the chairlifts to get people to all that powder. “We haven’t announced an early opening. We don’t intend to do so until after this weekend and we see what kind of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Google “South Lake Tahoe vacation rentals” and about 319,000 results show up. While there are nowhere near that many residences of any kind in the city limits, it proves this is big business. And in some ways it has not been a tightly regulated market, with some people suggesting the city is […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Veterans on both sides of the South Shore were honored Friday for the time they spent serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. Veterans Day tributes started at 11am Nov. 11 in South Lake Tahoe as the American Legion honored those who have served and those who continue to. Patty Smith, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Across the room the trumpets echoed “Taps” – the distinctive military call also known as Last Post. Lauren Tang was on one side of the South Tahoe Middle School auditorium, Christina DeLallo on the other. Their duet of sorts visibly moved the nearly 500 people who turned out Thursday for the fourth […]
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