· Robert Leftwich will be sworn in as Truckee’s police chief on Jan. 24 at 4:30pm at the airport. · The preferred alternative for the Kings Beach recreation area will be presented at a Jan. 18 6-8pm meeting at North Tahoe Event Center. · Kings Beach Snowfest Parade will be March 11, 11:30am-12:30pm in downtown […]
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By Kathryn Reed Stop making excuses for not growing produce in Lake Tahoe. There is finally a book that seems to answer every question imaginable. “July & Winter: Growing Food in the Sierra” is Gary Romano’s tell-all book about gardening at higher elevations. The book came out last year; published by Meyers-based Bona Fide Books. […]
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While Douglas County School District trustees and administration are eager to sell Kingsbury Middle School, officials don’t want to make further financial commitments to make that happen. At this week’s board meeting the electeds voted not to allocate any money for environmental documents related to the site. The board’s belief is that the environmental impact statement for […]
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Highway 50 is closed between Round Hill and Glenbrook because of three accidents. Two of them are property damage, the third involves an injury that is not life threatening. “Because of the temperatures it’s freezing all of the water over to ice,” Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Dan Gordon told Lake Tahoe News. He did not […]
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By USSA WENGEN, Switzerland – Friday’s Audi FIS Ski Word Cup alpine combined produced a surprise podium, and another top 10 World Cup result for Bryce Bennett (Squaw Valley). With upward of 6 inches of new snow overnight, officials swapped the downhill and slalom events, running the slalom first and the downhill – which was […]
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Bill Mosher, a descendent of several prominent South Lake Tahoe pioneer families, has died. He was 64. William Merwin Mosher IV passed away Jan. 6, 2017, after a lifelong battle with rheumatoid arthritis. He was born Jan. 2, 1953 in Sacramento to Melba and William G. Mosher Sr. Mr. Mosher was a fourth generation cattleman […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – Everybody talks about the weather. And few can accurately analyze it – especially when we speak of the climate, which is technically the statistics of weather. But that’s just what many tried to do Thursday morning at Harveys as Operation Sierra Storm wrapped up amid an unprecedented series of storms that knocked […]
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By Ed Ring, California Policy Center When the next market downturn hits, every public employee pension fund in the United States will face severe challenges. Because public employee pension funds are not subject to the same rules that private pension funds have to adhere to – namely, the restrictions on risky investments as specified in […]
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· In 2016, TAMBA had 93 volunteer days on 17 trails, with 327 volunteers, and logged 5,212 hours of trail work. · Jeff Loux will be the head of Truckee’s Community Development Department starting Feb. 6. · Late-Nite Productions is presenting free concerts every Saturday night throughout the winter at Whiskey Disks in South Lake Tahoe. […]
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The first fatality of the wicked storms that have thrashed the Lake Tahoe area occurred Thursday night. A 43-year-old Tahoe City woman was killed when a tree fell onto the Subaru she was driving. She was headed south on Highway 89 near Squaw Valley at about 6:30pm Jan. 12. No one else was in the […]
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