By Amy Graff, San Francisco Chronicle After a winter and early spring marked by unrelenting storms, the Sierra Nevada is piled high with snow. Now, as the storms taper off and the temperatures warm up, the snowpack is beginning to melt and runoff into rivers and lakes. One place that’s seeing a huge impact from […]
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· Steve Teshara will be executive director of the Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce for the foreseeable future. Things didn’t work out with Craig Schmidt who had been the leader since Feb. 6. · The Loft in South Lake Tahoe is have a winemaker dinner June 7 with Franciscan Estate being the featured […]
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Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District, California State Parks, and U.S. Forest Service plan to continue prescribed fire operations beginning May 22. If conditions are favorable, operations may take place near Sugar Pine Point, Glenbrook, Lower Kingsbury Grade, Ski Run Boulevard, Fallen Leaf Lake and Meyers. Operations may continue over the next several weeks, weather permitting. […]
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Truckee is the beneficiary from the latest round of California Transportation Commission funding. In all, $328 million will pay for 88 transportation projects that are designed to alleviate traffic delays, repair aging roads and bridges and encourage bicycling and walking. The money comes from Senate Bill 1, which increases funding for transportation infrastructure projects and […]
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By Jay R. Brooks, San Jose Mercury News Each year, nearly 5 million people visit Lake Tahoe. You could almost say there are two Tahoes. And considering that each state has its own alcohol laws that determine what’s available and where it can be sold, there are two Tahoe beer scenes, as well. If Lake Tahoe […]
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Build a Better World is theme for this summer’s Douglas County Public Library’s Summer Reading Program. There will be programs for ages 0 to 11 and a teens’ program for ages 12 to 17. The program runs from June 1 to July 31 at the Minden and Zephyr Cove branches. Those who participate will earn […]
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By Martin Espinoza, Santa Rosa Press Democrat The bodies of Brenda and Mark Richard, the Santa Rosa couple whose single-engine airplane went missing last month after taking off from Truckee, have been found, Sierra County sheriff’s officials said Friday. Sheriff Tim Standley said a recreational snowmobiler found a piece of the plane’s tail in the […]
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The two South Shore Soroptimist organizations separately awarded a number of students with scholarships this month. Soroptimist International of Tahoe Sierra honored 21 students with scholarships and awards totaling $12,200. Senior Scholarships ($1,200 each): George Whittell High School — Samantha Forvilly; South Tahoe High School — Sophie Caputa, Kamren Gonwald, Isabel Leon, Jocelyn Lopez, and […]
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By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH – Creating an electric highway in the Sierra is under way. It would encompass Highway 50 on the South Shore and Interstate 80 on the North Shore, and points around the basin. This isn’t a new concept. It has been talked about since at least 2006 when Truckee Donner Public […]
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By Daniel Borenstein, Bay Area News Group Gov. Jerry Brown and state Treasurer John Chiang have a plan to help cover the state’s soaring pension payments: Borrow money at low interest rates and invest it to make a profit. What could go wrong? Lots. Unfortunately, as they try to sell this scheme to the public […]
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