AAUW home tour focuses on old cabins By Jessie Marchesseau Original old Tahoe cabins all over the area. The little box-like ones clad in weathered wood siding or just plain logs. It’s hard not to wonder what those little gems look like inside and what they looked like way back when. Saturday’s American Association of […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – With a history in Lake Tahoe that dates to 1896, the Park family’s Edgewood Companies is poised to build the first high-end lodging establishment on the South Shore. Thursday marked the final day people could comment on the draft environmental impact statement for the Edgewood Lodge. Testimony was taken during […]
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By Kathryn Reed Having South Lake Tahoe be absorbed by El Dorado County, and turning the ice rink into a private enterprise are the two issues the El Dorado County Grand Jury wrote reports on involving the city. While South Tahoe Public Utility District was a target of an investigation, grand jury foreman Ted Long […]
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By Anne Knowles Nevada’s future in the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is still up in the air despite the recent defeat of the man who sponsored the bill that was approved last year that threatens to remove the state from the Compact. Sen. John Lee, D-North Las Vegas, the main proponent of Senate Bill 271 […]
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By Kathryn Reed The abrupt resignation Tuesday of Judy Cefalu from the Lake Tahoe Unified School District board upstaged everything else on the agenda. Not even board President Wendy David was given a heads-up about the letter written by Cefalu. That letter was addressed to Superintendent Jim Tarwater. Reached at home by Lake Tahoe News […]
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By Kathryn Reed Five years later and people are still wondering how they will evacuate safely from the Lake Tahoe Basin in an emergency, if a reverse 911 system has been installed, and how to get their neighbors to get rid of that shake roof. While a panel of agency officials sat on the stage […]
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By Kathryn Reed When the El Dorado County Grand Jury report comes out in the next week an item about the Pioneer Fire Protection District will seem a bit vague to those not in the know. This is because the consulting firm in question has not been named. The firm in question is Dan Dellinger […]
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CHP won’t talk about Truckee dispatch investigation By Kathryn Reed Within 13 seconds of the first call that came into the South Lake Tahoe dispatch center at 2:09:13pm on June 24, 2007, fire units were alerted. Leona Allen doesn’t know how many calls she received that first day. Working alone in the dispatch center on […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s easy not to want to paddle in Trout Creek. Listening and watching are the preferred activities. If only the binoculars were in the canoe. A cackle of chirping birds makes it seem like we’ve entered an aviary. Unfamiliar calls fill the air. Flitting about are species we don’t recognize. Later, Tom […]
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By Kathryn Reed With some areas of the Angora burn having lost 100 percent of its trees, human assistance was needed to restore what a human was ultimately responsible for destroying. Replanting of mostly Jeffery pines was what the California Tahoe Conservancy chose. The state agency owns about 90 acres of the nearly 3,100 acres […]
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