By Susan Wood GLENBROOK – When a suspicious package turns up, the Tahoe Douglas fire agency brings out the big guns in its arsenal of tools. In the Glenbrook station stands a robot weighing 500 pounds, spanning 3 feet, standing 4-feet-high, with a reach twice that length and gun barrels pointed – ready for action. […]
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – A ski slope out the back door. That is how the eight townhomes under construction at Northstar are being sold. East West Partners, which has come out on the other side of bankruptcy, is back in the game at this Truckee resort. While the developer has the rights to more […]
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By Kathryn Reed TWIN BRIDGES – Mount Tallac from the South Shore is an impressive icon. But when it comes to looking at Tallac’s backside from the top of Ralston Peak, the grandeur pales in comparison to the razzle-dazzle Mother Nature provides from this vantage point. It’s so much better than being at the top […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the final installment of the three-part series looking at the past, present and future of Lake Tahoe Airport. By Joann Eisenbrandt The 29 years since South Lake Tahoe assumed operation of the Lake Tahoe Airport from El Dorado County have proved to be a bumpy ride, peppered with aborted takeoffs and […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the second of three stories looking at the past, present and future of Lake Tahoe Airport. By Joann Eisenbrandt In the mid-1800s, white trappers and settlers spilled over from the gold mining encampments of the California Mother Lode and changed Lake Tahoe forever. Attempts to designate the lake as a national […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the first of three stories looking at the past, present and future of Lake Tahoe Airport. By Joann Eisenbrandt South Lake Tahoe wants commercial airline service to return to Lake Tahoe Airport. This isn’t news, but it’s moved to the forefront with the expiration this October of the 1992 Lake Tahoe […]
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By Anne Knowles The South Lake Tahoe City Council voted to deny a request from one of the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries to relocate its business after last month intimating it would approve the move. At its June 5 meeting, the council declined to act on City Attorney Patrick Enright’s advice to deny City of […]
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By Susan Wood With a glass of wine in hand and an incomparable view outside her Ski Run-area hilltop home, the woman who dedicated about half her life to Lake Tahoe history is sharing a bit of her own with a grateful community. Betty Mitchell just turned 90 years old – but of course, one […]
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By Susan Wood When up to 30mph winds ignited a hellish wildfire under the town gondola on Lake Tahoe’s busiest week a decade ago, firefighters, residents and stakeholders may have sought divine intervention in stopping the 673-acre blaze that threatened 550 structures, forced the evacuation of hundreds of people and cost more than $3 million […]
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – “Don’t be nervous. If anything, you should feel more secure with all the gear. You can roll down the mountain with all this gear and you won’t get hurt.” Then David Fox asked me to sign a liability waiver. The irony would have been amusing if it weren’t me and […]
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