Ski report: It’s wet outside
It’s a Gore-Tex kind of day. There is fresh snow in the upper elevations and mixed precip down below. Wind may be an issue for upper lifts. Here is the March 20 ski report. — Curtis Fong
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Taylor Creek Visitor Center looking for help
The Taylor Creek Visitor Center is looking for motivated people to help in the gift shop. Located on Highway 89 just north of Camp Richardson, Taylor Creek is home to the popular Stream Profile Chamber and Kokanee Salmon Festival. The center offers several guided and unguided interpretive trail hikes and hosts many summer programs at […]
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Past decisions add to S. Tahoe’s Linear Park costs
By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe is balking over the $35,000 connection fee the water district is imposing in order for there to be ample water to irrigate Linear Park. This stretch along Highway 50 isn’t really a park, but instead a paved path with landscaping from McDonald’s to Holiday Inn Express in front of […]
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Author, photographer, climber to tell stories of India
Last summer and fall, with three Canadians and four Indian climbers, Andy Selters went to an area at the northern tip of India that, due to border disputes, had been prohibited and unexplored. The team discovered high passes and wildlife, and climbed and named several peaks over 20,000 feet high. After climbing, Selters stayed on […]
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Opinion: Progress in Tahoe is measurable
By Joanne Marchetta The recent South Shore economic forum gave a sense of what’s possible when we come together around a vision to improve our Tahoe communities and the region’s environment. Recognizing that “planning” means little without implementation, let’s review some of the on-the-ground improvements accomplished under the Lake Tahoe Regional Plan just this last […]
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World Water Day organizers need volunteers
Who is monitoring the water quality in your local creeks, rivers, lakes and ponds? Don’t know? It could be you. The World Water Monitoring Challenge kicks off March 22, coinciding with the United Nations’ World Water Day, and runs through Dec. 31. The Challenge is designed to build public awareness and involvement in protecting water […]
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‘Best of Broadway’ coming to Truckee
Colorful costumes, resounding voices and contagious songs will soon fill the Truckee High School theater as the hard work of 30 students comes to fruition on May 10, the opening night of “Best of Broadway!” Since February, performers in the Truckee High School Drama Club have been rehearsing 15 hours per week. Barbara Wilkinson is […]
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Dilapidated S. Tahoe motel to be resurrected
By Kathryn Reed One of South Lake Tahoe’s rundown hotels on Highway 50 is about to undergo some much-needed rehabilitation. “By April 30 it will be looking good from the road,” Robert Durward said of the Trout Creek Motel. He is the new owner of the 11-room lodging facility near the Town and Country Center. […]
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11 arrested in Placer County ‘shoulder-tap’ sting
By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee Agents from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, in cooperation with more than 100 law enforcement agencies, conducted a record-setting statewide decoy “shoulder-tap” operation. The task force operation was conducted Friday and resulted in 506 arrests statewide, surpassing last year’s record of 435 arrests, according to a department news […]
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Iraq war is missing from U.S. classrooms
By Jonathan Zimmerman Upon today’s 10th anniversary of America’s war in Iraq, a critical question with serious ramifications has been little explored: What are our children being taught in schools about the conflict, as it passes from “current events” into history? To answer this question, one obvious place to start is school textbooks. I looked […]
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