By Megan Harrod, USSA He speaks fluent German and lives in Bergen am Chiemsee, Germany. These two things alone make Tim “Jit” Jitloff of Reno unique among his teammates. Like the Europeans, Jitloff is a commuter in his job as a professional ski racer. However, Tahoe was his playground as a child, and he was lucky […]
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By Kathryn Reed To be, or not to be, that is the question regarding Lake Tahoe Community College’s Theater Arts Department. Only it won’t be Hamlet answering the question. Ultimately it will be up to the board of education to decide if the department is disbanded, which is the recommendation of staff. On Oct. 18, […]
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By Dianne de Guzman, San Francisco Chronicle Forecasts are already showing a possibility of La Niña in our future, with the Climate Prediction Center for the National Weather Service rating our chances at about 70 percent. The system is predicted to be weak and short-lived, possibly arriving early next month. La Niña is not expected […]
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By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times The defendant told an LAPD officer he had smoked pot five hours before he was pulled over on Melrose Avenue for driving erratically. A blood test found a significant level of the chemical THC in his system, and a drug recognition expert ruled he was too impaired to drive safely. […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe isn’t the same city it was just a few years. And that’s a good thing. Economic indicators point to a rebirth of sorts, but there is still plenty of room for improvement. That was the message delivered Oct. 18 by David and Jamie Orr to the City Council. The […]
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In what seemed liked three days of uninterrupted rain in the basin amounted to 11 billion gallons of water dropping into Lake Tahoe. All that moisture meant Lake Tahoe’s level increased by 3 inches, according to the National Weather Service in Reno. The lake is still 2 inches below its natural rim. This means in […]
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By David Montero, Los Angeles Times Joe Leal says he knows the good ones from the bad. He’s been doing this for decades. He trusts that his brown eyes — narrowed beneath a furrowed brow — won’t deceive him. He looks down at the shiny silver handgun under a glass case. Next to it is […]
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By Susan Wood The Robert Maloff Center of Excellence is as much about Tahoe’s past as it is building a solid future for sports medicine on the South Shore. “Since 2003, we started talking about this. It’s wellness, fitness and sports performance all in one – something we always needed to do, we just needed […]
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By Michael Behar, New York Times At 11 o’clock on the night of Sept. 29, the National Hurricane Center in Miami posted an updated prediction for Hurricane Matthew. Using the latest data from a reconnaissance aircraft, the center’s computerized models led meteorologists there to conclude, in a post on the center’s website, that “only a […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal RENO — The winner of November’s presidential election could determine just how successful Nevada and the United States will be in attracting international visitors. Will our policies be warm, welcoming and inviting, thus encouraging repeat visits and word-of-mouth endorsements? Or will they be closed, with administrators suspicious of those […]
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