By Kathryn Reed SCOTTSDALE – Eighty-degree days in March and beer vendors meandering through the outfield grass. Clearly this is not AT&T Park in San Francisco. It’s Scottsdale Stadium – where the Giants call home during spring training. They will be playing there for another week to get ready for the real season. It’s appropriately […]
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By Anne Knowles CARSON CITY – Capacity and kayakers top the list of issues to be addressed in the Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park general management plan update. The Nevada Division of State Parks had meetings this week with interested agencies and the public to get input on the blueprint for managing the park that […]
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By Kathryn Reed Condensing any man’s life and his legacy to 72 minutes would be difficult. Doing that for Aldo Leopold was even more challenging because of the significant contributions he made to conservation efforts in the United States. In his lifetime that spanned from 1887 to 1948 Leopold became known as the father of […]
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By Kathryn Reed The federal government has written letters to the property owners of the three South Lake Tahoe medical marijuana dispensaries threatening to seize their property, fine them or send them to jail if they keep those particular tenants. “The letter didn’t direct us to shutdown. It put the landlord on notice about the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lt. Les Lovell’s last day on the job is Thursday. After more than 30 years with the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office, he is turning in his badge – at least until the summer. Then he returns to the seasonal boat patrol with Larry Olsen, who was a detective with the agency […]
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By Kathryn Reed To avoid another lawsuit when it comes to bids and contracts (like Lakeview Commons), the South Lake Tahoe City Council voted for the safe bet – to start the process all over. When the bids go out again for bear boxes to be installed on public property it will actually be the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Joy Barney is doing her part to make sure students on the South Shore are getting outdoors. The conservation education coordinator for the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the U.S. Forest Service was shocked when she moved here five years ago and some high school students looked at her funny when […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe residents may no longer have a fire department to call their own. That is because talks are under way for the city department to be run by Lake Valley Fire Protection District. Lake Valley, which is overseen by a five-member board, voted this month to proceed with a consolidation […]
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By Kathryn Reed Fans crowd Scottsdale Stadium to watch the 2012 Giants – to see their favorite players, new acquisitions and the young guys they want to learn about. Who will be on the 25-man roster is still an uncertainty. But those trying to make the team had to be invited to this audition. No […]
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By Anne Knowles The more things change, the more Genoa wants to stay the same. That’s the idea, so to speak, behind Destination Genoa, the project to update Nevada’s first town while maintaining its historic integrity and appeal. The project is a key piece of Douglas County’s economic vitality plan, the county’s nearly 2-year-old, 12-pronged […]
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