By Kathryn Reed The overriding reason to be in a hot tub is to relax. Just the opposite happens when bees buzz around just inches from your face and then want to make the body of water their continual drinking fountain. Then there are the yellow jackets that have such good sniffers they know where […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe has no idea how long it will have its current city clerk because she can’t make up her mind about retiring even though in June she announced she’d be leaving this month. “We are sort of in limbo here because she has not given me or the council a […]
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By Adam Jensen The Lake Tahoe Basin has a unique system of private property development rights established to protect this national treasure. The development rights system began in the 1980s and is central to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s management of growth in the Lake Tahoe Basin. It is designed to ensure development will help […]
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By Kathryn Reed “Zip on” – it’s a phrase being echoed through the trees at Heavenly Mountain Resort. At speeds of 35 mph it’s almost like Lake Tahoe is a blur of blue flying by. A series of seven ziplines and two sky bridges on the Skyway zipline tour are hidden in the woods; starting […]
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By Kathryn Reed Going to more than a dozen national parks in less than a week would normally be an exhausting undertaking. Not how I did it this summer. “Permanent Vacation, Volume 2” (Bona Fide Books, 2018) is a compilation of 18 essays written by people who have lived or worked in a national park. […]
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By Tom Lotshaw A UC Davis research team led by civil and environmental engineering professors Geoff Schladow and Alex Forrest, along with environmental science and policy Professor Steve Sadro, is working on a pilot project to test and optimize a strategy to reduce Mysis shrimp populations in Emerald Bay and Lake Tahoe. Working with the […]
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By Susan Wood INCLINE VILLAGE – “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere” from “New York, New York” could have been classical musician Lindsay McIntosh’s theme. Catapulted from her humble beginnings in the Truckee High School band, McIntosh did make it in the Big Apple as the song implies — and then […]
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By Amy Fish Multi-use trails connect our communities to the forest, and the nonprofit Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association (TAMBA) and its public partners are working on trail projects that benefit public recreation and the environment at Lake Tahoe, harnessing the power of hundreds of volunteers. TAMBA has formal partnerships with local land management agencies […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe electeds have yet to commit to putting a question on the November ballot asking voters to tax marijuana. Discussion on the topic filled the bulk of the July 2 City Council meeting. The special meeting was necessary because the city clerk didn’t properly do all the paperwork for the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Saying goodbye is never easy, but that’s exactly what I’m doing. After nine years of owning/operating Lake Tahoe News, it is time to move on. This will be the last month of the news site (unless it sells – here is the listing). The coverage will be sporadic until the end of […]
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