By Kathryn Reed Improvements to South Lake Tahoe ball fields and bike trails will be in the ground by the time the building season is over in the fall. The upgrades all have to do with the transformation of Measure S into Measure R. South Shore voters on the California side decided the recreation measure […]
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Updated July 27 6:45am: South Lake Tahoe police are recanting some of the information released about registered sex offender Wesley Goetz. Goetz is on lifetime supervision, but he is not on active parole in Nevada. He is permitted to travel into California. Police say Goetz’s desire to obtain a business license in South Lake Tahoe […]
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By Kathryn Reed Federal law dictates what happens to people who might be displaced if the Tahoe Transportation District ever reroutes Highway 50 on the South Shore. But fair market value today is another story. One man at Thursday’s TTD meeting brought up the fact that he would have to fully disclose to a potential […]
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Longtime South Lake Tahoe resident Walter Currier died July 6. He was 78. He born on Sept. 4, 1934. Walter, known to all as Walt, began teaching at the age of 21 in Martinez in 1955. He taught at Martinez Elementary School until 1961. He then moved his family to South Lake Tahoe where he […]
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By Kathryn Reed A Nevada City man broke a 40-year-old state record when he went fishing last weekend. Bill Brush reeled in a 5-pound, 2-ounce Kokanee salmon from Lake Tahoe. Dave Bournique of South Lake set the previous California record of 4 pounds, 13 ounces on Aug. 1, 1973. The day started slow. They were […]
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By Kathryn Reed HOMEWOOD – If you survive the first half hour, the rest of the hike will feel like an average walk in the woods. But there was nothing average about the views. This is what the six of us discovered earlier this month as we set out to climb the 8,740-foot Ellis Peak […]
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By Stephanie Strom, New York Times ST. HELENA — The chicken thighs, smoked for two hours, then soaked in buttermilk spiked with Crystal hot sauce and dredged in flour, turned a perfect golden brown, full of the promise of succulence and crunch, under the stern watch of Chef H. Alexander Talbot. But not one, alas, […]
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By Robin Wilkey, Huffington Post SAN FRANCISCO — Marijuana may not be fully legal in California, but the state’s Democratic Party has made its position clear. In a resolution released on Sunday, the California Democratic Party requested that President Obama end the federal crackdown against states with marijuana laws on the books: “The California Democratic […]
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By Kathryn Reed Changing how a desk faces, putting a defensive item on a teacher’s desk, playing over worst-case scenarios in one’s head to know what to do just in case – those are some of the basic security measures being taken in Lake Tahoe Unified School District. More substantive things are being done as […]
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By Mary MacVean, Los Angeles Times Even Elmo knows that breakfast is the most important meal of the day in his world, but there hasn’t been enough scientific evidence for the federal government to recommend it for grownups. Still, it sounds like it might be a wise move to stock up on oatmeal and the […]
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