By Brian Duggan, Reno Gazette-Journal The Nevada Supreme Court ended a nine-year property tax dispute between 8,700 North Lake Tahoe residents and Washoe County on Thursday, saying homeowners in Incline Village and Crystal Bay are due a property tax refund. While estimates of the refund came out to about $13 million in 2009, with interest […]
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Lake Tahoe News has tickets to the July 12-17 annual American Century Celebrity Golf Tournament at Edgewood Tahoe in Stateline. All Lake Tahoe News subscribers are eligible to win. If you aren’t a subscriber, it’s free. Just enter your email address at the bottom right of the home page. The winner of the pair of […]
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By Jonathan Dudley When I was earning my master’s degree in divinity at Yale, I never thought that years later, I’d be cheering the legalization of gay marriage in the state of New York. Still, while I was at Yale, I began to see an interesting pattern in some of the biblical passages I was […]
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• Northstar-at-Tahoe is enlisting its friends on Facebook to help name the lift being installed this summer. • South Lake Tahoe Green Thumb Gardening presentations are Wednesdays throughout the summer at the Demonstration Garden at Lake Tahoe Community College from 5:30-6:45pm. Contact Jen Cressy, jcressy@tahoercd.org or (530) 543.1501, ext. 107 for additional details. • North […]
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By Pooch Pucilowski The California State Fair Wine Competition has been judging California wines since 1854. The 2011 competition should go down as a proud moment for all the wineries in the Sierra Foothills Appellation – more important, for the wineries in El Dorado wine country. An interesting observation that should bring a sense of […]
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Sierra-at-Tahoe gave back nearly $300,000 to the community during the last ski season. Some of the entities benefiting from the ski resort include: Barton Memorial Hospital Foundation Sierra Resort donated $142,000 in lift tickets to Barton Memorial Hospital Foundation during the annual Snowsports Week in February. Barton Foundation then sold the tickets through local retail […]
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By Kathryn Reed With the California budget approved last week, it means $84,305 is not coming to the South Lake Tahoe Police Department. Statewide, Senate Bill 89 takes $130 million in vehicle license fees away from cities. The money could be filtered back to cities and counties in the form of grants. However, it throws […]
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By Kathryn Reed Aaron Rodgers has played the American Century Celebrity Golf Tournament in relative obscurity for the past six years. That’s not likely to be the case this year for the quarterback who spearheaded the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl win. Rodgers is not letting his fame influence who carries his clubs during the […]
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The Arbor Day Foundation will plant 10 trees in national forests that have been devastated by wildfires, insects and disease for every new member the organization signs up this month. The cost to join the Arbor Day Foundation is a $10 donation. To join the Arbor Day Foundation, send a $10 membership contribution to Replanting […]
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Angelina Marie McFarlane passed away peacefully at her home in Hanford, Calif., on her birthday, July 6, 2011. Angie was born in Springfield, Ill., on July 6, 1925, to Giovanni and Virginia Bovaresco. She moved to Santa Barbara in 1938 with her parents and brothers Victor and Geno. They were met at the train station […]
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