By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee On July 27, 1985, a local land surveyor facing divorce called the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office from one of two family homes near Wilderness Way, south of Placerville. “I think I just shot my husband,” Colleen Ann Batten told a dispatcher. Last Sunday, sheriff’s officers arrested the same woman […]
Read more
Updated Jan. 13 12:25pm By Kathryn Reed Two Bay Area residents are recovering from frostbite and hypothermia after being rescued near Bear River Reservoir in Eldorado National Forest on Saturday night. “We are just lucky to be alive,” Sally Shanks told Lake Tahoe News on Jan. 13 from her bed at Barton Memorial Hospital. But […]
Read more
• 2008 South Tahoe High School grad Alex Boyar is on his way back to Delaware to be Sen. Chris Coons’ state finance director. • South Tahoe Rotary Club is paying South Tahoe High School’s subscription to the Junior Library Guild, a “book of the month” service for school libraries. These funds will ensure STHS […]
Read more
By USSA ST. ANTON, Austria — Lindsey Vonn (Vail) came ever so close to the podium Sunday in St. Anton, finishing fourth — just one-hundredth of a second out of third. Slovenia’s Tina Maze continued her total dominance on the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup with the win to join Vonn as one of six […]
Read more
Another incredibly cold day in Lake Tahoe. Put on a couple more layers. Here is the Jan. 13 ski report. — Curtis Fong
Read more
The Tahoe Backcountry Vertical Challenge continues this winter for the third year. Participants must register online to log human-powered, backcountry vertical travel. It’s all free. When the cumulative goal of 15 million vertical feet of human-powered uphill travel is reached, Alpenglow Sports of Tahoe City will make a $3,000 donation to the Sierra Avalanche Center. […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed A Nordic center at Lake Tahoe Community College is expected to open next month. The college board of trustees on Jan. 8 approved the creation of the South Lake Tahoe Community Nordic Ski and Snowshoe Club. This will be a pilot program run through the college’s Connect Community Education. Megan Waskiewicz, who […]
Read more
The Lake Tahoe Community College Writers’ Series will celebrate the book launch of “Get Out of My Crotch” on Jan. 25 at 7pm. In this anthology, 21 writers examine reproductive rights, access to health care, violence against women, and the rise of rape apologists in the 21st century in the United States. The book hits […]
Read more
A South Lake Tahoe resident on Jan. 12 reported a suspicious phone call to law enforcement that has led to a warning by officers. According to police, a man identified himself as a Drug Enforcement Agency agent investigating a mail order prescription purchase the resident had made in 2006. The resident was told to send/wire […]
Read more
By Kate Pickert, Time It’s 8am on a Wednesday, and Tammi Kromenaker is on the phone, trying to untangle an insurance snafu. After 15 minutes of arguing with a billing operator, the director of the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo, N.D., begins preparing for the patients who will soon arrive. Staff members trickle in. […]
Read more