By Kathryn Reed ZEPHYR COVE – School board members in Douglas County on Tuesday received enough information to convince them the four-day school week is not the reason test scores at Whittell High School are going down. After WHS Principal Crespin Esquivel gave a sobering account of how students are doing at his facility, the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Halfway into his three-year contract with South Lake Tahoe, Tony O’Rourke is looking for another job. He has been out of the office quite a bit in a quest to move on. He says the decision has more to do with his family than it does professional reasons. “For the long term […]
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By Kathryn Reed If the weather cooperates, work will begin May 1 on the Sawmill Road bike trail on the South Shore. The contract between El Dorado County and Don Garcia Excavating and Paving is signed. Permits are in hand. It’s just a waiting game right now. Besides the 8-foot-wide class 1 bike path that […]
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By Anne Knowles When Douglas County developed a plan to revitalize its economy, it’s no wonder planners looked to the Minden-Tahoe Airport, which already brings an estimated $30 million into the region annually. “The airport is one of the major economic engines in the community,” said Linda Mae Draper-Hivert, a member of the Minden-Tahoe Airport […]
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By Kathryn Reed What can’t Tahoe Production House do? So far, it can do everything anyone has asked. TPH can do simple things like converting a VHS into a DVD. It can also be a full service production house that writes scripts, shoots them, edits them and delivers the final product. Most production houses – […]
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By Kathryn Reed Cancer is still one of those words that people think should be whispered, or that it should not be said outside of a close-knit circle. Even worse, people think the diagnosis is an automatic death sentence. Yes, cancer attacks various parts of the body and to different degrees. Yes, a lot more […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – Another meeting, another plan, another promise the next document won’t sit on the shelf, but instead will actually be implemented. That last part kept being pounded into the more than 40 people who attended the Meyers Roundtable meeting this week. But only a fraction of those people are ordinary citizens […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the South Lake Tahoe City Council has always said the convention center project is not a city project, all of a sudden the electeds want to be involved with filling in the hole. City staff has been on the periphery as the project languished in bankruptcy for more than two years. […]
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By Kathryn Reed An angry citizenry prompted South Lake Tahoe officials to look closely at how it handles special events. Guidelines were thoroughly discussed April 3 during a City Council workshop at which six members of the public gave their input, plus one letter was read into the record. New Year’s Eve weekend’s SnowGlobe music […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION – “By no means are we in great shape, but be we are nowhere near as fragile as we were last month.” That is the assessment of the water content in the Sierra Nevada by Frank Gehrke. Gehrke, who works for the state Department of Water Resources, was at the […]
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