By Linda Fine Conaboy MEYERS — Search and rescue volunteers know when they sign up for the job no two days will be the same, a generalization they discovered to be tragically true on Saturday during what was supposed to be a routine training exercise. The SAR training cadre, consisting of Marcel Rowley, Terry Carroll, […]
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By Susan Wood When the Lake Tahoe sky turned orange and black over the North Upper Truckee area five years ago, our land of blue was changed forever. June 24, 2007, started out like any other late-spring Sunday. People were out and about. Some ventured out of town to get an early taste of summer. […]
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Life goes on, but that does not mean we can or should forget the past. To do so means the likelihood of forgetting what we have learned. Complacency can set in – which is never a good thing. That is why with the five-year anniversary of the Angora Fire coming up later this month Lake […]
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By Kathryn Reed It isn’t quite like the Food Network’s “Restaurant Impossible,” but the challenge is probably the most difficult culinary test these budding chefs have had to execute. Students in Steve Fernald’s Food Preparation class at Lake Tahoe Community College are tasked with planning a three-course lunch menu that includes a beverage, make enough […]
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By Hal Cole It’s been two weeks since I last visited Margie. She has been ill for many months and this last visit was particularly impactful. I am very aware that every time we say a casual “goodbye” to family and friends it very well could be “farewell”. It was very obvious to both of […]
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By Kathryn Reed If the loop road project were completed, will a section of South Lake Tahoe become a ghost town as drivers avoid a significant commercial segment of town, or will it stimulate the economy? If Highway 50 and city streets in the Stateline area were left as they are, will this be good […]
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Nancy Kerry will be city manager of South Lake Tahoe at least until Oct. 1. The City Council at a special meeting Tuesday night voted 4-1 to put Kerry, who is current assistant city manager until Tony O’Rourke leaves at the end of June, in the top job. Councilman Tom Davis was the lone dissenter. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Snowmobiles stored across multiple lots in a residential area. Overturned garbage cans with trash strewn about. Boarded up abandoned houses. Businesses moving half their belongings to the outdoors. Junk cluttering yards so it looks like a mini landfill. This is South Lake Tahoe. While not every parcel is a visual nightmare, hardly […]
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Memorial Day is often called the kick-off to summer. The real meaning of today goes much deeper. Memorial Day is about honoring those in each branch of the military who have died for the United States. As much as it’s easy to say war is not necessary. It is a reality. People have been dying […]
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By ScienceDaily Results of a new U.S. Geological Survey study conclude that faults west of Lake Tahoe, referred to as the Tahoe-Sierra frontal fault zone, pose a substantial increase in the seismic hazard assessment for the Lake Tahoe region of California and Nevada, and could potentially generate earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 6.3 to 6.9. […]
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