Tahoe Water Suppliers Association is seeking applicants for the 2017 Future of Water Scholarship. Applicants must be a senior at a Lake Tahoe Basin high school in California or Nevada. The scholarships will be available for a student working toward his/her first undergraduate degree and who is enrolled in a program related to water resources, environmental […]
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By Kathryn Reed Could South Lake Tahoe become the outdoor capital of the world while at the same time providing enough affordable housing for those working here? The answer, according to some residents, is a resounding yes. The future of the city was the focus of Tuesday’s City Council meeting. It was a workshop in […]
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By Charles Rappleye From our earliest days we Americans have embraced leaders from among the ranks of the nation’s moneyed elite. Voters set the tone when they chose George Washington, the wealthiest man on the continent at the time, as the first president. But that choice was accompanied by a healthy skepticism of the role […]
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Former South Lake Tahoe resident Ruth Marie Hanson Woods died Jan. 16, 2017, in Logan, Utah. She was 89. Ruth was born Sept. 5, 1927, in Santa Rosa to Percy Brunell and Helen Patricia LeCornec Hanson. She was raised in Santa Rosa and graduated from Santa Rosa High School in 1945. […]
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Four bear cubs were returned to the wild on Feb. 15. In April 2016, an 18-year-old female bear with four cubs (two males and two females) died of unknown causes on the South Shore. The cubs weighed 7 to 10 pounds, and are now closer to 70 pounds. They were taken to Animal Ark in Reno because […]
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Eight people were injured in a four-car accident on Highway 88 on Valentine’s Day. It started when Maria Gonzalez, 23, of San Jose was headed west just east of the Kirkwood Inn. Her vehicle, for unknown reasons, left the highway and hit a snowbank on the south side. She had five passengers in her vehicle. […]
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By Kathryn Reed It isn’t until the roads close that residents and business in Tahoe realize how isolated it can be living and working here. Fortunately, Highway 50 on the California and Nevada side were not closed for very long. Both reopened on Feb. 14. But there is a lot of winter left and no […]
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· Carolyn Wright from Zephyr Cove Tennis Club is now the USTA local area coordinator for the Tahoe-Reno region. · Bingo at the Carson City Senior Center on March 18 from 12:30-3:30pm will benefit Train a Dog Save a Warrior. · Go for a list of where free radon kits may be obtained in Nevada. […]
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Nevada has asked the federal government for disaster relief from the January storms that caused widespread flooding. The affected regions include Douglas, Washoe, Carson City, Lyon, and Storey counties, as well the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and Washoe Tribe. The damage from the storms is estimated to be about $15 million. — Lake Tahoe News […]
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By Mike Dunne, Sacramento Bee At the start of a new year, I customarily find myself seated with two to four other judges in a curtained cubicle of a barny building on the Citrus Fairgrounds in Cloverdale in Sonoma County. We usually constitute one of about 20 panels at the annual San Francisco Chronicle Wine […]
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