Updated: Jan. 9 10:55am Gino DiMatteo, 43, of South Lake Tahoe pleaded guilty today to possession with the intent to distribute marijuana. A bail review hearing is scheduled for this afternoon at 2. Sentencing is set for April 17 before U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller. While the maximum penalty is 30 years in federal […]
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By Kathryn Reed TWIN BRIDGES – An X-ray of a wrist is on the light board. The patient is being seen in one of the three exam rooms. Out front all of his vitals are inserted into a computer. But this is no ordinary emergency room. This is where injured skiers and snowboarders come to […]
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By Susan Wood The day after President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, South Lake Tahoe made a major move to heal its community, decrease fatalities and provide well-rounded care to its local citizenry and visitors. Barton Memorial Hospital opened about a half century ago on Nov. 23, 1963, with 38 licensed […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – If you don’t like to break trail, wait a day or two after a snowstorm and it’s possible snowmobilers will have laid down a path that is better than what fellow human-powered recreationists have done. Those sled tracks are wide enough to find your own groove, whereas someone else’s skis […]
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By Kathryn Reed For now, 2-year-old Oumy N’Doye must call her baby sister just that – baby sister. This is because in her parents’ native country of Senegal the naming of a newborn occurs one week after the birth and with a big family celebration. With modern technology, the ceremony will be via Skype. This […]
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Updated Jan. 4 2pm: El Dorado County sheriff’s Lt. Pete Van Arnum said while there appears to be no foul play in the death of Petaluma resident Alyssa Byrne, the investigation is ongoing to determine how she ended up off the side of Pioneer Trail. “There is conflicting information about this case. We aren’t exactly […]
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By Kathryn Reed With the holidays officially over, it’s time to restore the house to pre-holiday décor. This means out goes the tree. South Tahoe Refuse has been recycling Christmas trees since 1992. In 2007, it hit the 100,000 mark for the number of trees that had been repurposed. Even though people have cut back […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION – While the state is faring well when it comes to water content from the snowpack, the measurement closest to South Lake Tahoe is just average this time of year. In the field paralleling the road to Sierra-at-Tahoe, Frank Gehrke with the state Department of Water Resources on Jan. 2 […]
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By Kathryn Reed “It’s up to the council and community, but my recommendation will be to encourage this to become an annual event.” That is what South Lake Tahoe City Manager Nancy Kerry told Lake Tahoe News less than 24 hours after the three-day music festival SnowGlobe came to a close. “I think this event […]
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The world seems to be in a sad, angry and distrustful state of mind. We live in a time when in 2012 more active U.S. troops took their lives than died fighting in Afghanistan, according to the Military Suicide Report. In 2012, 70 journalists died. The record was 74 in 2009. That might not sound […]
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