By Kathryn Reed The last time the two main visitors authorities for Lake Tahoe worked to bring a major sporting event to the basin it was snowed out. Snow would be a good thing for their latest endeavor. Lake Tahoe is one of four cities in the running to host the Winter X Games for […]
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By Kathryn Reed ZEPHYR COVE – Suddenly the sun is gone. Plants wither. People and animals die. No air to breathe. No water to drink. Briefly, all of this happened at Zephyr Cove Elementary School on Jan. 15. It was all to show the students how important the sun is to the survival of life […]
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By Kathryn Reed Bears are smart animals. They learn where easy food is, but they can also learn they aren’t wanted in houses, dumpsters or vehicles. “The alternative is a lead bullet,” Mario Klip, bear biologist with the California Department of Fish and Game, said if bears don’t learn their lesson. Klip is working with […]
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By Kathryn Reed After three days of record-breaking low temperatures, many pipes in the Lake Tahoe Basin had enough and started doing some breaking of their own. The four major casinos in the Stateline casino corridor have all had burst pipes. The damage started Jan. 13 at Horizon when a pipe near the loading dock […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the South Lake Tahoe City Council keeps making decisions about paid parking, the issue won’t go away. And it’s not going away because of a 1987 agreement with Heavenly Mountain Resort that has come to light. The staff report dated Nov. 18, 1987, says, “Any costs related to the use of […]
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By Kathryn Reed A Nordic center at Lake Tahoe Community College is expected to open next month. The college board of trustees on Jan. 8 approved the creation of the South Lake Tahoe Community Nordic Ski and Snowshoe Club. This will be a pilot program run through the college’s Connect Community Education. Megan Waskiewicz, who […]
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By Kathryn Reed Horizon hotel-casino in Stateline is struggling to keep its door open and find people to rent one of the 539 rooms. Tahoe Horizon LLC, a subsidiary of Columbia Sussex Corp., runs the South Shore business. Horizon employees were laid off before the December holidays. This is usually one of the busiest times […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – While China was the No. 1 fossil fuel emitting country in 2011, what is missing from most conversations is who is consuming all the goods that country is producing. A significant amount of CO2 emissions comes from making things. And it is people in the United States who are buying […]
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By Anne Knowles MINDEN – Some Douglas County School District support staff have to wait another month to receive pay increases due them since July 2012. The county’s school district board of trustees was scheduled this week to vote on ratification of a long-negotiated contract agreement with the Douglas County Support Staff Organization, which is […]
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By Kathryn Reed Bob Harris, former forest supervisor of the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, has died. He was 72. “He was quite an environmentalist, but also a professionally knowledgeable land manager. He was able to balance environmental ethics with land and conservation knowledge,” Bill Morgan said of his friend of 47 years. Harris led […]
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