Beginning Monday there will be public transit between the Carson Valley and Reno. Amador Stage Lines will provide the Carson Valley Airporter service. It is being subsidized by $365,000 in federal transportation funds administered by the Nevada Department of Transportation. Stops include: Gardnerville Community Center, Carson Valley Inn, Minden Holiday Inn, Courtyard Marriott in Carson City, Carson City transit […]
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Twenty-two nonprofits are sharing $48,000 from the 2014 American Century Championship. Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority in partnership with NBC Sports and American Century Investments previously directed an additional $67,200 through on-site volunteer organizations and other efforts during tournament week to area high schools, Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe, South Lake Tahoe Booster Club, Boys & […]
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Perry Boys’ Smorgy in the 1960s offered cafeteria-style lunch for $1.15 and dinner for $1.75 in the Crescent V Center near the state line. Next door to the right was Raley’s Supermarket and Lawrence’s Department Store. That same corner location today offers pizza and art in the remodeled and renamed Village Center. Years after Perry […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s possible many of the adults in the room were not smarter than a first-grader – at least on Friday. Pink volcanoes, bottles of unknown substances, melting candy and crayons. Rows of tables with trifold cardboard displays explain what all of this is about. “We wanted them to do science,” Shaina Lucas […]
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Eleven miles of Highway 28 will be getting about $24 million worth of improvements. Washoe County commissioners on Nov. 12 approved a $12.5 million Federal Lands Access Program agreement for the corridor from Incline Village to the Highway 50 junction. The funding will be targeted toward safety advances, expanded transportation options, an enhanced visitor experience, increased economic […]
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South Tahoe and Truckee high schools are Division 1-A state soccer champions. The girls from South Tahoe beat Sierra Vista 3-2 in overtime on Nov. 15 to claim the crown. This is the fourth state title in five years. The team will lose 11 seniors. That game as well as the boys’ final were played […]
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By Melissa Siig, Moonshine Ink The struggle between Squaw Valley Ski Holdings and Incorporate Olympic Valley over the future of the valley may be playing out publicly in newspaper ads and editorial pages, but behind the scenes another battle is brewing — one that involves hundreds of thousands of dollars, multiple attorneys and consultants, and a […]
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The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District and the U.S. Forest Service will continue prescribed fire operations in the Round Hill, Zephyr Heights, Incline Village, Slaughterhouse Canyon, Christmas Valley, Ward Canyon, McKinney Rubicon areas and on various urban lots near Heavenly. Operations will last through the next several weeks as conditions allow. Smoke from prescribed […]
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Three Olympians from the inaugural U.S. slopestyle snowboarding team will compete in the High Roller Hold’Em at Heavenly Mountain Resort on April 4. Gold medalist Sage Kotsenburg will place his bets against fellow Olympians Billy Morgan and Chas Guldemond, as well as High Roller Hold‘Em veterans Gjermund Braaten and Eric Willett. High Roller Hold ‘Em combines […]
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The North Lake Tahoe Resort Association is accepting applications for three open seats on the association’s marketing committee. Appointments will be made based on marketing experience, type of business the member is affiliated with and the portion of North Tahoe the member represents. New members will be appointed at the January board meeting and will […]
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