By Northern Nevada Business Weekly Zephyr Photonics Inc., a manufacturer of highly sophisticated optical devices, said last week it’s offering manufacturing services at its plant at Lake Tahoe to outside customers. The upshot may be increased employment over the next couple of years for the company, which has employed about 30 people in recent years. […]
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By Susan Wood VAIL — With just a passing glance of the sweeping views off the Mountaintop Express chairlift at 11,250 feet, it’s difficult not to get naturally sentimental about how a vision of a mountaineering soldier turned into Colorado’s premier ski resort and the flagship for a corporate empire running nine ski area properties. […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Sierra Club and Friends of the West Shore filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Sacramento to stop the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Regional Plan from taking effect in its entirety. “We hope to achieve a reconciliation with the TRPA over their plan and get it strengthened,” Laurel Ames […]
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By Kathryn Reed The South Lake Tahoe City Council is ready to fight. “I believe our rules have purpose and when they are broken knowingly, we should not settle,” Councilwoman Brooke Laine said. The four met Feb. 11 to continue last week’s discussion of whether to take the City Attorney’s Office recommendation to settle the […]
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By Kathryn Reed When Rick Meyer wakes up a week from today he won’t be getting dressed for court, or even the office. And while his days as a criminal defense attorney will not be over, they will be when it comes to working for El Dorado County. On Feb. 15, he retires as chief […]
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The Fresh Ketch in South Lake Tahoe has new owners. Longtime owner Bob Hassett has sold the restaurant to the majority owners of the Tahoe Keys Marina – Donna and Robert Krilich of Illinois. Details of the transaction that closed in January have not been disclosed. Neither Hassett nor Donna Krilich returned calls. This means […]
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By Kathryn Reed One by one businesses at the Factory Stores at the Y have been closing. Now the whole center is on the auction block. While the notice of default was filed in June 2012, the trustee sale is scheduled for Feb. 27 in Placerville. Sisters Shannon Casteel and Nancy Irmer, who own the […]
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By Kathryn Reed With raw honesty, Tracy Ross has confronted her demons in a poetic, thoughtful manner that makes listeners want more and yet has them feeling a bit voyeuristic because of that desire. Ross was at Lake Tahoe Community College on Feb. 7 as part of the Writers’ Series. She was reading from “The […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – In two months the Tahoe Transportation District board expects to know which alternatives for the loop road will be studied in the environmental documents, what businesses in the affected area think about the economic analysis, and it hopes to have finally appeased the South Lake Tahoe City Council with a […]
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By Kathryn Reed Living at higher elevations has health benefits and drawbacks. Thin air means an increase in red blood cells, which is one reason athletes like to train at high altitudes. They tend to perform better when they return to sea level. But mountain sickness hits some who gain too much elevation or do […]
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