By USSA BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. – Maddie Bowman (South Lake Tahoe) clinched a nomination to the inaugural U.S. Freeskiing Olympic team Sunday with a win in the halfpipe final at the Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix presented by North Face at Breckenridge. Adverse weather at the venue forced FIS officials to reschedule the finals twice, and […]
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By Matt Gutman, Chris Kilmer and Lauren Effron, 20/20 When Navy veteran Carol Roberts first met A.J. Dicken, who boasted about being the most decorated Navy SEAL ever, she was in awe of him, and she wasn’t the first. For years, Dicken, 57, claimed he was an ex-Navy SEAL who had served in dozens of […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of blurbs about how the lack of winter is impacting businesses in the Lake Tahoe Basin. If you have an idea, please email it to info@LakeTahoeNews.net. SMC Contracting Inc. is one of the businesses that is benefiting from the dismal snowfall. But it could be temporary. The […]
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• Brooke Laine has been hired to be manager of US Bank in South Lake Tahoe. • Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce’s community breakfast is Jan. 28 at 8am at Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel. It is free and open to the public. • Bona Fide Books of Meyers is entering the world of […]
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U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews will continue prescribed fire operations off of Bunker Drive near Tahoe City and on Luther Pass near South Lake Tahoe through the week of Jan. 12–18, weather and conditions permitting. All prescribed fire projects are conducted in accordance with an approved prescribed fire burn plan. Burn plans describe specific […]
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By USSA PARK CITY -– Canadian skier Alex Bilodeau overtook teammate and World Cup leader Mikael Kingsbury for the victory Saturday in front of a crowd of 8,000 at the Visa Freestyle International FIS World Cup at Deer Valley. Alexandr Smyshlyaev of Russia took the third spot, while crowd favorite Pat Deneen (Cle Elum, Wash.) […]
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These ads were culled from mid-1960s issues of the Tahoe Daily Tribune saved by “Old Long Skiis” who comments frequently here on Lake Tahoe News. These were popular long-time local businesses we probably thought we’d always see: The Outdoorsman (now the Grocery Outlet building in South Lake Tahoe) ultimately expanded to Round Hill, Truckee, Carson […]
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By Kathryn Reed Dawn Armstrong never intended to run a Humane Society, let alone for more than two decades. The 70-year-old came to South Lake Tahoe not sure of what she wanted to do. Right away she met people associated with the Lake Tahoe Humane Society. She joined the board mostly as a way to […]
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To the community, “The motto of Kiwanis is to change the world one community and person at a time. That is why we are here. We love to support Bread & Broth,” said Kiwanis Club of Tahoe Sierra member Pat Frega. He and fellow club members Carolyn Willford and Eric and Nancy Schafer were the […]
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• The rumor that Kirkwood Mountain Resort is going to close because of lack of snow is false. “Our planned date to close is late April; no plans to do anything different,” Casey Blann, vice president and general manager of Kirkwood, told Lake Tahoe News. • Snowlands Network Backcountry Film Festival is Jan. 22 at […]
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