By Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee Up the hill at Placerville’s Snowline Hospice, employees know Marianne Rosenfeld as “The Ski Lady” because she picks up old skis that people donate to the nonprofit’s processing center and refashions them into chairs. Rosenfeld hauls the skis farther up the mountain to South Lake Tahoe where, at some point […]
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By Kathryn Reed Changes to Heavenly Mountain Resort that are expected to be ready for the 2016-17 ski season are mostly based on what skiers have requested. The resort wants to: · Build a permanent 300-square-foot ticket sales kiosk adjacent to the Bear Cave Ski School near Tamarack Lodge; · Relocate the Red Fir handle […]
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By Heather Hansman, Outside In late September, a hiker in New Mexico’s Santa Fe National Forest encountered a shocking sight: a several-hundred-yard swath of felled trees on a hillside in the Pecos Wilderness. Whoever did it leveled off hundreds of englemann spruce and subalpine fir trees a few inches above the roots and left the […]
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By Anne Knowles MINDEN — The Douglas County Board of County Commissioners this week voted to raise the gas tax to pay for road maintenance, but failed to pass a sales tax bump to fund a list of countywide projects. The additional gas tax will make possible much needed road improvements, but the failure of […]
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By Associated Press WASHINGTON — The House and Senate have reached agreement on a five-year, $281 billion transportation bill that would increase spending to address the nation’s aging and congested highways and transit systems, including an extension of the future Interstate 11 connecting Reno and Las Vegas. The bill would put an end to the cycle of temporary extensions and threatened […]
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By Susan Wood Despite the weather phenomenon known as the Christ child that is expected to pack a devilish punch to the West this winter, most Lake Tahoe-area government agencies are conducting business as usual in terms of preparing for it. Public works departments from one end of the lake to the other beef up […]
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By Kathryn Reed Retirees from the city of South Lake Tahoe are suing their former employer over the changes to the health benefits that took effect the first of this year. “What the city has done essentially is thrown the retirees under the bus. They don’t have the power to negotiate now that they are […]
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By Jason Blevins, Denver Post Vail Resorts on Wednesday promised $30 million toward employee housing projects in the California, Colorado and Utah mountain communities where its ski areas are powerful economic drivers. The money is intended for partnerships in towns such South Lake Tahoe and Truckee; Breckenridge, Vail and Avon in Colorado; and Utah’s Park City. […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Imagination, creativity and artistry come together to capture the holiday spirit in mostly untraditional ways at the Barton Foundation’s Festival of Tree and Lights. This is because these are no ordinary evergreens. Eleven trees have either been ornately or whimsically transformed from a barren (fake) conifer into a one-of-a-kind […]
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By Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic This year’s hurricane season is winding down. And as meteorologists predicted, there was above average activity in the eastern and central Pacific and less than usual in the Atlantic. The reason, also as predicted: a strong El Niño. El Niño may have also contributed to October 2015 being the […]
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