By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – A hotel where Safeway is as well as one along the golf course. Residences above street level businesses. Side streets with commercial offerings instead of just along the highway. Expanded recreation. Improved public transit. Those are some of the visions a group of business owners and others have for […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau Aurora De Lucia will be running the Tahoe Trifecta starting today. That is three different half marathons in three days. What makes De Lucia different than the dozens of other people she will be running with this weekend? Oh, just that she is 22, had open heart surgery 2½ years ago, is […]
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By Kathryn Reed HOPE VALLEY – Tree trunks stand like centurions from an era long ago. It’s as though they are keeping secrets – possibly the stories of explorers from another century. With each day that passes, the water level at Scotts Lake is receding. At an elevation 8,012, the conditions look more like spreading […]
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By Susan Wood TRUCKEE – After logging almost three years on the slopes of Northstar, the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe has shown how easy it is to mix business with pleasure. That’s because some may say the only AAA five-diamond hotel in the Tahoe region has been good for guests, village retailers and even Placer County […]
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By Kathryn Reed Orders are already being placed – even from doctors who know this is not health food. It’s quite the opposite. But there seems to be something therapeutic about this once-a-year specialty item. While they can’t actually be bought until November, a gang of aficionados gathered on a September Sunday morning in a […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the third of five Q&A profiles of a South Lake Tahoe City Council candidate running in the Nov. 6 election. Name: Clinton Schue Age: 35 How long have you lived in South Lake Tahoe?: My family has been in Tahoe for over 40 years. My grandparents owned a motel and I […]
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By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON – The outdoors and sex. Those are the overriding themes of people in Lake Tahoe want to hear about. Seven books were featured during the annual Celebration of Writers earlier this month at the Valhalla Grand Hall. Tahoe Writers Works each fall brings together a group of authors who either […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau TRUCKEE – I was more excited than nervous driving up to Northstar on Friday morning to preview this year’s Tough Mudder course and try my hand at some of the obstacles. Tough Mudder calls their events, not a race, but a challenge, and uses the tagline: Probably the Toughest Event on the […]
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By Susan Wood While politicians declare war on women’s issues, the battleground actually started long ago in the media world. This is what longtime Lake Tahoe Community College sociology Professor Scott Lukas has discovered. A decade ago, Lukas focused on gender bias in advertising for one of his sociology classes. His students became so widely […]
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By Tom Millham As some of you may be aware, we now have five bobcats in house. We have had a total of six this year, which is the most we have ever had. The one we got in about a month ago was just with us for about three days after being hit by […]
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