By Kathryn Reed While no decisions have been made as to what the trail system at Fallen Leaf Lake will look like in the future, four additional alternatives have been added to the mix to reflect what the public desires. Nearly 40 people attended a workshop Wednesday night at the U.S. Forest Service office in […]
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Update: City officials are saying it will be after midnight when people will be able to return home. By Kathryn Reed and Susan Wood A South Lake Tahoe man was taken to Barton Memorial Hospital after being burned while trying to put out a structure fire Tuesday night and two houses were completely destroyed. The […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – The $35,000 economic study involving the South Shore Vision Plan has been completed, but is not being released to the public. Carl Ribaudo with Strategic Marketing Group gave a presentation to the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority board last week, but because he neither provided members nor staff with a written […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the second of five Q&A profiles of a South Lake Tahoe City Council candidate running in the Nov. 6 election. Name: Austin Sass Age: 59 How long have you lived in South Lake Tahoe?: I moved to South Lake Tahoe in 1975. In 1983, I leased out my house and left […]
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By Kathryn Reed Former members of South Tahoe Area Transit Authority, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, and the law firm of Feldman, Shaw & McLaughlin received more bad news this month from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Reno. David Thompson, the federal bankruptcy trustee, filed a complaint against STATA’s member agencies in which he states that […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Wiping the slate clean. That was one of the overriding messages the Tahoe Transportation District staff and board wanted people on all sides of the loop road to hear and embrace. That doesn’t mean the proposed reroute of Highway 50 through the South Shore that has caused so much consternation […]
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By Kathryn Reed “When I took this job three years ago, I was told it was called the Field of Dreams. I think it’s a Field of Nightmares.” That is what Steve Kolesnik, South Tahoe High School softball coach, told the Lake Tahoe Unified School District board of education Sept. 11. While it may never […]
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By Kathryn Reed Deficit spending is continuing in South Lake Tahoe for another year and may be what happens in 2013-14, too. The budget the City Council is expected to approve Sept. 18 includes $700,000 from unassigned excess reserves. And while the budget, which goes into effect Oct. 1, is balanced per state law, the […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the goals are the same – to restore the river channel to what it was before man first messed with it, improve habitat and enhance the entire ecosystem – the approach the U.S. Forest Service is taking on two projects in the Lake Tahoe Basin is drastically different. Cold Creek runs […]
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By Kathryn Reed A bachelor’s degree with Lake Tahoe Community College’s seal. That could be a reality for students graduating in 2016 if college President Kindred Murillo gets her way. She would also like to turn the two-year institution into a destination college – as in people would move to South Lake Tahoe to go […]
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