Jake Callanan of South Lake Tahoe on March 24 received the merit and valor certificate from the U.S. Coast Guard. He along with his employer Ski Run Boat Company were given the honor at the Lake Tahoe Marina Association meeting Thursday. Last summer when Callanan heard a woman screaming he relinquished control of his vessel to […]
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By Gary Parrish, CBS Sports UAB coach Jerod Haase has spoken with Stanford officials and is considered among the leading candidates to be the next coach of the Cardinal, a source told CBS Sports. Haase has been UAB’s head coach for four seasons. He’s won 20 games each of the past two seasons. UAB won […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe has put El Dorado County and Lake Valley Fire Protection District on notice that it intends to get out of the ambulance service by April 15. The multiyear contract between the three agencies allows for any entity to give a 30-day notice. The city did so on March 15. […]
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It Takes Talent, now in its fifth year, proved there is quite a bit of talent at Zephyr Cove Elementary School. Volunteers Duane Nieman and Sunny Patel (Exhale Lounge) used professional lighting and sound to make the performers look like they were on a real stage. Students in every grade level participated. Each year a student is chosen […]
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By Kathryn Reed A woman who has a blog called “Shred Mom” has made scathing accusations against Northstar ski resort. The resort says its investigation into the allegations found the woman to be the aggressor. Placer County sheriff’s detectives are investigating. Danelle Muresan-Foster – the blogger – told detectives the incident occurred Feb. 25. She […]
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By Associated Press A proposal to raise California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2021 qualified Tuesday to appear on the statewide November ballot. California’s current minimum wage is among the highest in the nation at $10 an hour. The measure backed by a faction of health care workers belonging to the state largest […]
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· South Lake Tahoe wants input from people about roads and recreation. Here is the online survey. · Sierra College, Tahoe-Truckee is hosting a career expo for the community April 22 from 11am-1:30pm. Details are online. · Douglas County sheriff’s Deputy Teresa Duffy earned the William H. Spurgeon III Award from the Nevada Area Council […]
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By J.R. Sullivan, Outside In July 2013, 66-year-old Geraldine Largay was hiking in western Maine, nearing the end of a three-month, northbound solo journey on the Appalachian Trail. She’d logged more than 950 miles and traveled through ten states, sending regular texts to her husband, George, who was pacing her by car and meeting up with […]
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Students sleeping in cars, kids in need of a winter coat, food for the weekend. Those are some of the basic needs that aren’t being met on the South Shore. The extras, like being able to take a dance or tennis lesson, to have performing arts in their school – those are also hard […]
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By Charles Bethea, New Yorker In February, Tanner Hall, one of the greatest freestyle skiers of all time—he won seven X Games gold medals and four silver in the Big Air, SlopeStyle, and Superpipe events between 2001 and 2009—signed a deal with a Denver-based cannabis-accessories company called Black Rock Originals. Hall, who is now 32 […]
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