Markleeville’s legendary Cutthroat saloon is getting a new lease on life. It has changed hands, and the new owner is restoring the name. Fawna Demond, who has periodically worked at the bar, is the new owner. When Tom Abdoo bought the bar and restaurant in 2002 he renamed it the Wolf Creek Bar & Restaurant. […]
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By Jillian Queri, Powder Alterra Mountain Company announced its plans last week to acquire Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah. Denver-based Alterra, which is behind the Ikon Pass, now claims 27 properties (including Solitude) located in the U.S. and Canada. Once the Solitude transaction is complete, 13 of the Ikon mountains will be Alterra properties, […]
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By Larry Weitzman Now starting its fifth year of production, the Mazda 6 still reigns supreme among mid-size family sedans, if you could call it that (a family sedan). And this is after the intro of some new heady models from Toyota in the form of the all new Camry and heavy revisions of the […]
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El Dorado County has worked out a deal with Airbnb for the short-term rental company to collect transient occupancy tax. This is something the city of South Lake Tahoe has been trying to do to no avail. Airbnb will start doing this for the unincorporated area of the county starting Aug. 1. Jurisdictions prefer rental […]
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Midas is a Labrador/Anatolian shepherd puppy, who is about 8 months old. He is house trained and has good manners. He likes to play with other dogs and did not chase the cats that he met at the shelter. He is a smart boy who would love to go to training classes. Midas is […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – A new summer show at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe not only returns audiences to the roots of soul with rhythm and blues, but it even takes back the performers. “Solid Gold Soul” staged in the South Shore Room features an ensemble of accomplished singers accompanied by a five-piece band of […]
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By Joe Mathews All proposals to split California into multiple states share the same defect: a foolish fixation with geography. The new “Cal 3” initiative, which would create three states, is simply the latest measure (the first was pre-Civil War) to make the mistake of dividing us up by regions. The splitters’ logic is that […]
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By Chris Sellers, Lindsey Dillon and Phil Brown, The Conversation The Environmental Protection Agency made news recently for excluding reporters from a “summit” meeting on chemical contamination in drinking water. Episodes like this are symptoms of a larger problem: an ongoing, broad-scale takeover of the agency by industries it regulates. We are social scientists with […]
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By Sam Gross, Reno Gazette-Journal First responders rescued five people Saturday night after their boat capsized in Washoe Lake. Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District Chief Charlie Moore told the Reno Gazette Journal Sunday that they found five people “clinging to the sides of a capsized watercraft” roughly a half-mile from shore. Read the whole story
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The Tahoe Windjammer’s Yacht Club is having its annual Community Sailing Clinic on July 14. This event includes classroom instruction on basic sailing and boating safety in the morning and on-the-water instruction as a guest on a member’s sailboat in the afternoon. The clinic is open to men and women of all experience levels. The […]
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