Ski report: First powder day of the new year
Freshies to start the new year. Three inches fell in South Lake Tahoe overnight and it’s still coming down. Read the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe, to know total on the slopes.
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K’s Kitchen: Portabella fajitas — perfect for a group
By Kathryn Reed Flexibility in the dinner menu is critical when guests are arriving at various times and the weather is sketchy enough that travel time might be longer than usual. On occasions like these I like to make portabella fajitas. They are easy to make and don’t take much time. Another nice thing is […]
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Top political buzz words of 2010
By Leslie Savan, The Nation For decades now, there’s been a gap between the left’s and the right’s ability to talk populist. Liberals tend to trip over their own subtlety, uncertainty and/or ambivalence (an example of which you maybe just read), while the right produces categorical words that stick: media elite, death tax, and of […]
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Tahoe Films looking for most extreme huntress
By Mike Campbell, Anchorage Daily News Since she was a 13-year-old Anchorage teenager, Stacee Frost has embraced bow shooting. Her father got Frost started using a traditional recurve bow. Before long, she moved up to a fire-engine red compound bow that she still owns. Nine years ago, she shot her first big-game animal, a Sitka […]
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Fall of high-end vacation club reaches shores of Lake Tahoe
By David Migoya, Denver Post It was to be a worldwide playground for the middle-class millionaire with nouveau riche vacation getaways for stunningly little outlay. Denver-based High Country Club and its creator, Christian Kirschner, were tenderfoots in the rising destination- resort industry, a high-flying sector that in 2005 seemingly couldn’t miss. In the time it […]
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Making and keeping resolutions for ’11 that matter
A new day, a new month, a new year, a new decade. Welcome to 2011. Resolutions so often fall flat. Either the conviction to make them happen wanes or their unrealistic nature renders them unachievable. What if we started small with our resolutions for the coming year? Whether you call it paying it forward or […]
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Skier reported missing at Heavenly
El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department search and rescue crews were searching for a missing skier at Heavenly Mountain Resort on New Year’s Eve. Sheriff’s officials and ski resort officials did not return calls late Friday. With El Dorado County being the lead agency, with assistance from Douglas County, it means the incident is on the […]
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North Shore 10-day SnowFest expands list of events
North Lake Tahoe celebrates its long winter season with SnowFest, a 10-day carnival March 2-11 at a variety of venues throughout North Lake Tahoe. In its 31st year, SnowFest, presented by the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association, is expected to draw thousands of attendees, with the majority of events free to spectators. New events include […]
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Gaines: Wife may run for Assembly seat
By Susan Ferriss, Sacramento Bee Roseville Republican Assemblyman Ted Gaines will be giving up his Assembly seat if he wins a special election Tuesday – and his wife could be a contender to fill that seat, he told the Bee on Wednesday. “She’s contemplating it,” said Gaines, who lives in Roseville and now represents the […]
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Environmentalists dismayed by governor’s corporate turn
By Michael J. Mishak, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts to give a boost to corporate California are colliding with his image as an environmental crusader in his final days in office. Administration officials say their moves are needed to protect jobs in a fragile economy. But environmentalists are dismayed by what […]
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