By Liliana E. Sanchez Each night, during the month of October, South Lake Tahoe Women’s Center displayed purple lights on our building to honor Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It is not uncommon for us to witness acts of domestic violence at places such as the market, at work, next door or possibly in our own […]
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By Nadja Brandt, Bloomberg News Spa resorts such as Vermont’s Stowe Mountain Lodge and the Broadmoor in Colorado are using wall climbing, carpentry classes and yoga to lure corporate clients accustomed to little more than free breakfast as a hotel perk. Stowe Mountain has boosted its corporate group bookings with such programs as the “Naked […]
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South Tahoe High School’s boys’ and girls’ soccer teams were in action this weekend. Both teams have much to celebrate. At the class 3A Boys State Tournament in Mesquite on Friday the guys beat Boulder City 5-0, while Sparks needed overtime to top Truckee 1-0. In Saturday’s championship match, South Tahoe beat Sparks 3-1. In […]
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By Lisa Ramsey-Simpson The American Youth Soccer Organization has been a fixture in South Lake Tahoe youth soccer for some time, providing a way for local youth to learn about the game of soccer, sportsmanship and the value of working together as a team. Each year South Lake Tahoe sends one to two All-Star teams […]
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By Stephanie Fosnight, OakPark-Leaves If you thought the “eat local” mantra was just the latest foodie fad, then think again. While traveling Europe 131 years ago, Mark Twain pined from abroad for the local flavors of America, flavors that — thanks to the twin revolutions of industry and the railroads — were already on their […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE — A case was made Friday to start a pilot waterborne transit project on the North and West shores as early as next summer. “Essentially it would be public transit on the lake,” explained Gordon Shaw of LSC Consultants. “This is not going to be a big ferry.” He was […]
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By Heather Hansman, Ski Nervous about your kid falling off the chairlift? Do their short legs make them ride precariously close to the edge? Good news. Now, you can magnetically stick them to the back of the chair. French company Magnestick has been installing magnetized chairs in Europe for the past three years, and this […]
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By Emi Urabe and naoko Fujimura, Bloomberg News Forget the ice ax and $500 climbing boots. The mode du jour for today’s female mountain hikers in Japan is a miniskirt and leggings. The North Face, the San Leandro maker of Gore-Tex waterproof jackets, and Alpine Tour Service Co. are targeting “yama girls,” or mountain girls, […]
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On the occasion of Mark Twain’s 175th birthday, the Mark Twain Cultural Center will host a celebration and the old boy himself (impersonator McAvoy Layne) will hold forth on the balance of the autobiography that Twain asked be withheld for 100 years after his death. The celebration, which honors one of Lake Tahoe’s most well-known […]
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By Jim Toedtman At midnight this New Year’s Eve, unless Congress intervenes, the U.S. tax code does a reverse somersault, upending a decade of tax law and reverting to its alignment of 2001, a tax hike costing $4 trillion over 10 years. The unyielding calendar dictates that Congress must act quickly. That is an irresponsible […]
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