Publisher’s note: Greta and Mike Hambsch are selling the 34-year-old property management firm, which is the third largest in the South Lake Tahoe area. By Denver Business Journal Vail Resorts Inc. is getting into the lodging business in South Lake Tahoe. The Broomfield-based company (NYSE: MTN), which owns four Colorado ski resorts and the Heavenly […]
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• Click here for Barton Health’s flu clinics. • California Conservation Corps hopes to have the foundation in on the Meyers overhaul by Oct. 15. Finding the pool for the old hotel in a spot it wasn’t supposed to be has caused delays. The whole project is supposed to be done by January 2012, with […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College Theatre Arts Department presents film producer David Wisnievitz on two consecutive Mondays in the Duke Theatre. Both evenings are free of charge and open to LTCC students and the community. Wisnievitz has worked in a variety of positions on a number of major films, including “Selena,” “Searching for Bobby Fisher,” and […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News is profiling candidates for South Lake Tahoe City Council and Douglas County Commission. The stories are being published in the order they were received. Name: Lee Bonner Age: 51 Hometown: Minden How long have you lived here?: 5+ years Job/profession: Communications, public affairs What would you build or tear down […]
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Returning this month to the Tahoe Gallery, located on the third floor of SNC’s Prim Library, is accomplished tapestry and weaving artist Antonia Lowden. According to Lowden, her act of weaving necessitates, “a different kind of attitude and a mode that requires you [to] express an idea….” By doing so, she has elevated her large-scale […]
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The 15th Annual Truckee River Day is Oct. 17. The event will include a full day of restoration followed by a celebration fair. Truckee River Day started in 1996 with only three weeks of planning. Four hundred volunteers came to lend a hand and completed 10 projects. Since that first year thousands of volunteers have […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee SANTA CRUZ – By his count, Don Ivey, 56, should have been dead six times by now. The artisan and former competitive in-line skater survived both a stabbing and a scuba diving accident as a young man. Fifteen years ago, he was diagnosed with AIDS and hepatitis C. Five years […]
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By Johnathan L. Wright, Reno Gazette-Journal The Frey family, Nevada farmers for five generations, don’t simply want to remain on their land in Fallon. They want to work it, see it breathe and thrive — even as water rights have dramatically diminished and surrounding farms have been abandoned to the wind. In 2001, the Freys […]
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By Keith Libbey and Evan Thomas, Newsweek Most Americans spend dozens, if not hundreds, of hours attempting, not always successfully, to do their tax returns. We spend almost $30 billion paying accountants to fill out the complicated forms, and by some estimates we devote $110 billion of our own labor just keeping track of all […]
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By Jeremy Evans South Lake Tahoe discovered last month that it was operating under an invalid contract with construction company Reeve Knight, the contractor selected to complete the Lakeview Commons project. On Monday, El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Steve Bailey ruled the city needs to start the bid process all over again, a decision […]
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