By Kathryn Reed Artists’ renderings of what Tahoe could look like are on easels. Talk is about not having a cookie cutter approach to planning. What might be allowed in one area won’t necessarily be permitted in another. Incentives to rid sensitive land of development and instead concentrate redevelopment in central locations are goals. For […]
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By Kathryn Reed It would cost South Lake Tahoe close to an additional $2 million a year for the next 20 years to fully fund its retiree health care plan. That’s because as of Sept. 30, 2011, that account had an unfunded liability of $44.9 million. The city currently pays its share plus $400,000 a […]
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By Dan Tirabasso In a 4-0 decision Tuesday, the South Lake Tahoe City Council decided to give residents another opportunity to vote on a tax revision aimed at increasing revenue for the city. (Councilwoman Angela Swanson was absent.) The June 5 ballot measure would increase the tax on the city’s largest companies by increasing the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Using a spork, Odette Sosa eagerly scoops out the fruit of the kiwi that has been cut in half. She got it off a friend’s tray. She had already eaten her orange – what she said at the time was the best part of the meal. But she wanted more fruit. This […]
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By Kathryn Reed TWIN BRIDGES – Sierra-at-Tahoe has put the force of Burton and Lucas Films behind its kids’ learn to snowboard program. Four-year-old Elliana zips away from Jar Jar Binks headed toward Chewbacca. It doesn’t take her long before she is riding without any assistance. “Dropping in,” she says as she whizzes down the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Airport’s new hangar in relation to the old one is like comparing a penthouse to an ordinary hotel room. That’s how Michael Golden of Mountain West Aviation described the executive hangar that is on the north end of the property. While he wouldn’t disclose the exact cost of the building, […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe Finance Director Christine Vuletich is leaving in two weeks to take a job in Douglas County. She was hired in September 2004 by then City Manager Dave Jinkens to replace the retiring Bruce Budman. She is leaving to be assistant county manager/chief financial officer for Douglas County. Vuletich, 52, […]
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Alpenglow Sports has partnered with Alpine Meadows Ski Resort for the 5th annual Alpine Touring and Telemark Demo Event on Feb. 11 from 9am-3pm. The event will provide a forum to perpetuate the enthusiasm for all aspects of in-area and backcountry skiing. Free to all, the event will showcase the latest and greatest in both […]
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By Anne Knowles Three counties near or surrounding Lake Tahoe should see faster job growth in the coming decade compared to the state as a whole, and more quickly than in the nearby Sacramento region, according to a recently released report. Alpine, El Dorado and Placer counties – the Golden Sierra region – should see […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION – While there was snow to survey, there wasn’t much. The water content measured near Sierra-at-Tahoe on Wednesday came in at 19 percent of normal. Statewide, the snowpack water content for Feb. 1 is 37 percent of normal. The water content as measured by the Department of Water Resources was […]
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