MontBleu has hired a general manager who is well acquainted with gaming and tourism in Northern Nevada. Tim Maland takes over the 437-room hotel with its 40,000-square-feet of casino floor at a time when all the Stateline properties are trying to figure out how to lure people to rooms and tables. Maland was president of […]
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Lake Tahoe Historical Society’s annual fall meeting is Nov. 10, 7pm at Camp Richardson. Dave Borges will speak on the Lincoln Highway … a marvelous story of 1913 achievement.
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KTHO FM-96.1/AM-590 (www.kthoradio.com) is having South Tahoe and Whittell high school students give updates on the activities, sports and general info about what’s going on at the South Shore schools. The segments run daily at 11:15am and 5:30pm.
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Letter to the Publisher, An opponent for my re-election to the STPUD Board has stated the 0% rate increase for 2009-2010 is an election year ploy. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am an unbiased financial professional on the Board; let me explain the facts and process to you. The 0% rate increase […]
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Nearly 250 students from the South Tahoe middle and high schools bands,orchestras, choirs and NJROTC will perform a concert on Nov. 9 at South Tahoe Middle School’s multipurpose room. The free concert is from 7-8pm. The program is listed below and will include familiar patriotic music and songs that will pay tribute to our veterans […]
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By Susan Wood Turkey at Thanksgiving may be considered the ultimate as a food for gatherings. But no other dish is more popular as a communal meal than pizza. That’s why it made for an ideal culinary class at Lake Tahoe Community College this fall. It comes with a warning though. Go to class with […]
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Explore Tahoe, the urban trailhead experience at Heavenly Village, is showing off its new topographical relief map and children’s discovery center. A speakers series at the center is beginning in November. * Nov. 19 6:30pm – Scott Valentine, LTCC Earth Sciences Instructor presents “The Geology of the Tahoe Basin” faults, volcanoes and tsunamis and the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Maybe it has to do with operating next to a casino. Whatever the reason, a $200,000 gamble, or investment as some call it, turned into a savings of $322,000 for Embassy Suites in just seven months. David Hansen, who runs the engineering department at the South Lake Tahoe property, convinced the owner […]
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By El Dorado Winery Association This year’s near-perfect growing season and long hang time on the vines hinted that harvest would yield plenty of intensely flavored grapes — and that’s just what our vintners report from their cellars as they put these young wines to bed. A hot spell earlier this month sped up the […]
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South Lake Tahoe massage therapists need to have completed 12 units of continuing education credit to be able to renew their license through the police department in 2010. You can get all 12 CE hours (or a portion of them) and learn the leading energy medicine technique and in Tahoe. EFT classes will be taught […]
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