• This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Tahoe Rim Trail Association and the 10th anniversary of the completion of the trail that circles the Lake Tahoe Basin. • The Resort at Squaw Creek is celebrating its 20th season. • California is taking $3 more from each parking fine issued by cities for the […]
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Publisher’s note: This is reprinted from the November 1973 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. Gardner Mountain was named after Matthew Culbertson Gardner, an early day lumberman of the Tahoe area. In 1872 Gardner acquired a large timber holding at the south end of Tahoe. His initial operations consisted of felling and splitting fir and cedar […]
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Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe handed out a slew of money Wednesday. The service organization’s annual fall wine tasting is its biggest fundraiser. The group takes the cash and returns it to the community. On Feb. 9, $28,000 was given out. The recipients are: • South Lake Tahoe Police Department and El Dorado County […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 6, 2011, Auburn Journal. A push to allow developers to “clean up” eyesores in Lake Tahoe has left a black mark on four of the five Placer County supervisors’ voting records. Recently, four members of the board voted to oust Supervisor Jennifer Montgomery from the Tahoe Regional […]
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By Kathryn Reed Schussing down the slopes of Sierra-at-Tahoe it’s hard to tell anything is different this season. And that’s exactly what resort officials want. Less than a month before the South Shore resort opened Nov. 23 for the 2010-11 season, its sister resort, Northstar-at-Tahoe, was acquired by Vail Resorts. (CNL Lifestyle Properties still owns […]
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John Steinbeck dropped out of Stanford to write his first novel “Cup of Gold” – a swashbuckling Caribbean pirate romance which he completed at Tahoe’s Cascade Lake just prior to taking a job at the state Fish Hatchery just east of Tahoe City. There he met and wooed his first wife, terrorized visiting females, bragged […]
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Bob Dog Pizza at Meyers Station is hosting a fundraiser for Tahoe Valley Elementary School to raise money to buy snowshoes for the PE program. The pizza fest is Feb. 10 from 11am-9pm. Bob Dog is at 3141 Highway 50 in Meyers. Eat in, pick up, take-n-bake or delivery — in Meyers, Y, Gardner Mountain, […]
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Tahoe Rim Trail Association has received an $8,000 grant from REI to support volunteerism within the organization. The TRTA depends on volunteer support to meet the ever increasing demand for sustainable outdoor recreational opportunities in the Lake Tahoe Basin. To meet these demands, the organization recruits, trains and supervises more than 1,000 volunteers each year […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office today confirmed that a body found above the White’s Creek Trailhead is that of missing hiker Rick Gentry. Deputy Armando Avina said that two Washoe County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue volunteers were training their cadaver dog, Geiger, when they discovered the body in the area above […]
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The San Francisco Giants World Series trophy is making it rounds, with a date set for Reno. It will be on the UNR campus at Joe Crowley Student Union Ballroom, 1664 N. Virginia St. on March 8 from 5-7pm. A Lake Tahoe date is yet to be announced, but is still listed as a destination […]
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