By Kathryn Reed Outside the college theater conversations were taking place about where each other is living on the South Shore, what country they are from and what their job is. Being an international worker is what they have in common. With that designation also comes the unfamiliarity of living in a mountain town, not […]
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By Kathryn Reed Christmas is coming late to a number of charities on the South Shore – and they are fine with that. Carol Chaplin, executive director of Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority, has been making calls to let organizations know they are going to share $77,000. The money is from last summer’s celebrity golf tournament […]
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By Kathryn Reed “I was too naïve to understand it was special,†Del Laine says. “I was excited to be there. The internationality of it.†Now, 50 years later, Laine appreciates the work she did as a journalist covering the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley from Feb. 18-28, 1960. She was 29 years old, with […]
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Publisher’s note: The following was sent to the South Lake Tahoe City Council on Jan. 11 and is being printed here with City Manager Dave Jinken’s permission. Mayor and Council: The news for cities and our public does not look good in the Governor’s proposed State budget. The article below from the League of Cities […]
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By Kathryn Reed A half dozen protesters came and went from outside Broc’s Puppies on Sunday. The atmosphere between them and workers at the South Lake Tahoe store were friendly, with coffee and cookies brought out to the sign carrying group. The protesters were startled at one point when a firecracker came flying out of […]
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By USSA MAMMOTH — After six days of sunny snowboarding, the Sprint U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix closed up shop at Mammoth Mountain on Sunday with Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, CA) and Chaz Guldemond (Reno, NV) winning the Paul Mitchell Progression Session. Under bluebird skies and balmy temperatures, Anderson led the women followed by Isabelle […]
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By USSA CALGARY — The U.S. Freestyle Ski Team battled weather Sunday as it wrapped up three days of competition in Calgary Sunday with Emily Cook (Belmont, VT) finishing sixth and Dylan Ferguson (Amesbury, MA) seventh in World Cup aerials. Chinese athletes Zongyang Jia and Nina Li won the event in what U.S. Freestyle Ski […]
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By Lindsey Sine, USSA BAD GASTEIN, Austria — It wasn’t a question of if, as much as when Nate Holland (Squaw Valley, CA) and Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton, VT) were going to shred their way to a podium. That question was answered Sunday as both won the snowboardcross World Cup in Austria. “This totally amps me […]
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Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is attempting to save $100,000 with six scheduled furlough days starting this week. This comes on the heels of having shutdown Dec. 24-Jan. 3. Nevada is cutting its contribution to the bi-state regulatory agency, applications are less than robust and investment income is off, so TRPA needs to find a way […]
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Don Borges, South Tahoe High School athletic director, reports that STHS is scheduled to compete in the 4A for the 2010-11 athletic season. On Monday, he will be in Winnemucca to observe the 3A-2A AD meeting and their discussion about realignment for next year. On Tuesday, the NIAA is expected to send him the proposal […]
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