By Kathryn Reed Remove development on the lake to provide better views. Have hotels near bike-pedestrian paths. More access to public transportation. Boardwalks. More kayaking. Decrease the number of driveways at Bijou Center. Make Lakeside Beach public. Those are some of the ideas the public came up with at a meeting Wednesday night in regards […]
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By Ted Long On March 19, I completed my first session of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Citizens Academy. Of the 30 participants, I was the only one from South Lake Tahoe, and like many other things I have done in Placerville, it seems that Lake Tahoe is in a different world. And with the […]
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By Patrick Wright Lake Tahoe News recently published a letter from Ann Nichols (CTC needs to come clean about its parcels, March 17) sounding an alarm that the Tahoe Conservancy is on the verge of selling 400 environmentally sensitive parcels. Let me assure your readers and the community that the Conservancy has no plans to […]
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John Hitchcock, planner with South Lake Tahoe, talks March 20 about the plans for the Stateline-tourist core area.
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By Christine McConville, Boston Herald A national data privacy group is seeing red over a new CVS policy that requires workers who use company health insurance to report their weight, and body fat and glucose levels to the insurer — or pay a $600-a-year penalty. “This is an incredibly coercive and invasive thing to ask […]
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Tahoe Resource Conservation District has received two grants that will be used to implement a basinwide stormwater monitoring program. The first is for $750,000 and the second is $760,000; for a time period of four years. The regional stormwater monitoring program will not only serve to fill scientific gaps, and provide a means by which […]
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The Family Resource Center will be making and selling tamales in early April. Pork, chicken, cheese, and pineapple tamales will be available. Fill out the order form and fax to (530) 542.0397 or email to cristina.luquin@yahoo.com by March 29 at noon. One dozen tamales cost $15. Orders may be picked up on April 4 from noon-5pm. […]
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Kiwanis Club of Lake Tahoe wrote a $500 check for concussion impact testing for South Tahoe High School athletes. Every athlete in every school sport is given this baseline test and then retested every two years, or sooner if they are injured. Typically the school will test 250 students per year. Because of this donation, […]
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By Lisa O’Daly On March 15-17, 50 of California and Nevada’s fastest under 14 ski racers were invited to spend a weekend racing and training at Sugar Bowl for the 2013 Far West Performance Camp. Olympian Daron Rahlves, a World Cup alpine race champion and the most decorated American downhill and super G skier in […]
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By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times California consumers don’t have easy access to actual prices for medical care, according to a national report card that gave the state a D for its dismal showing. Overall, 36 states received a D or F in the report issued Monday by two nonprofit healthcare groups that analyzed government […]
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