By Kathryn Reed When people start lining up outside St. Theresa Catholic Church this afternoon for their bag of food to sustain them, they will receive nothing. Instead, a note on the door will say the shelves are bare and there is nothing to hand out. This is the first week the South Lake Tahoe […]
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• Solange Schwalbe, who lives in the Angora burn area, worked on sound production for the movie “Eat Pray Love” that just came out and stars Julia Roberts. • Dr. Jonathan Tay, medical director of Reno CyberKnife, recently was named a “Health-Care Hero” for Northern Nevada. • Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe with Tahoe Adventure Company […]
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By Carl Danner Important details are delaying legislative confirmation of California’s commitment to a requirement of 33 percent renewable electricity by 2020. But there are more fundamental questions about what this mandate might achieve, and at what cost. Start with the basics. The idea of renewables seems to be electricity made without fossil fuel, and […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee As a recent visitor to Lake Tahoe approached the lower base end of the gondola ride at Squaw Valley Resort, he wondered aloud about the nearby Ritz-Carlton hotel. “Didn’t they go into bankruptcy?” asked Daniel Huffman, of Cool. The answer is no, the luxury hotel, which opened last year at […]
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Lake Tahoe Wellness Weekend is Sept. 24-26 at Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe. The weekend includes four fitness classes with top fitness experts inspiring Vinyasa Yoga classes with San Francisco instructor Ginger Layden-Braun held outdoors on Hyatt’s Cottage Green, and Balletone and Aikina Aerobics with former Russian competitive gymnast Alyona Aikina. Also included in the weekend: […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE –Tourism, health-wellness, and the environment. These three areas are supposed to be the economic saviors of Lake Tahoe. In a room full of about 70 of Tahoe’s movers and shakers on Monday the two-hour talk was all about the Lake Tahoe Basin Prosperity Plan. A bit of irony is the […]
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Join the Tahoe Rim Trail Association on Aug. 21 for the Galena Falls Wildflower Hike. This leisurely hike starts with a climb up and over a ridge and through the forest to a cascading waterfall. It is followed by a moderate climb to a high mountain meadow. It may be hot. so bring lots of […]
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By J.K. Dineen, San Francisco Business Times San Francisco-based JMA Ventures has acquired Lake Tahoe’s West Shore Café, a lakefront property located next to Homewood Mountain Resort. JMA’s acquisition of West Shore Café represents a new beginning for the restaurant, which closed its doors during the summer of 2009. Read the whole story
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Join hosts Bona Fide Books and Suzanne Roberts in celebrating the release of Janet Smith’s book “All of the Sudden Nothing Happened” on Aug. 20 at 7pm Smitht is the past recipient of a Nevada Arts Board Fellowship in poetry, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is on faculty in the English […]
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Join hosts Bona Fide Books and Suzanne Roberts in celebrating the release of Janet Smith’s book “All of the Sudden Nothing Happened” on Aug. 20 at 7pm Smith is the past recipient of a Nevada Arts Board Fellowship in poetry, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is on faculty in the English […]
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