By Kathryn Reed After 40 years of employment with the state water board, Harold Singer is retiring. He has been executive officer of the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board since the late 1980s and was working for the state board before taking the job in South Lake Tahoe. What he does next is unknown […]
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By Kathryn Reed Free college textbooks? Maybe. Lake Tahoe Community College Professor Larry Green is part of a pilot program that allows students to use a statistics textbook for free. On Tuesday, he was in Sacramento with lawmakers to lend his support representing California faculty to make etexts available to more students. The average annual […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – What’s another 10 hours when five years had already been spent on the revitalization plan of Homewood Mountain Resort? For Art Chapman, sitting in a room all day Wednesday listening to people praise and rip apart his plan was worth it. Chapman is president of JMA Ventures, the San […]
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By Kathryn Reed Money for teachers, textbooks and lights for the classrooms remain – for the most part – but there may be no students sitting at the desks. That’s because school bus funding has been cut throughout California. Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday pulled the trigger to slice millions of dollars from K-14 education. […]
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By Katherine E. Hill KINGS BEACH – Kings Beach will be undergoing a face-lift over the next three years, with sidewalks, lighting, landscaping and a reconfigured three-lane highway through the small hamlet. With these improvements, known as the Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Project, come long-term maintenance and repair costs from snow removal in the […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Not wanting their permit to become invalid, Tahoe Beach Club developers decided to create even more phases for the multimillion dollar project at the end of Kahle Drive in Stateline. Putting in about 60 feet of what will be a 159.6-foot pier this fall and adding the remainder next year […]
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By Geoff Schladow, Heather Segale, Allison Gamble and Andrea Wilkins Research efforts to control invasive aquatic species from around the world continue to threaten the Lake Tahoe Basin. Work to identify the most effective mechanisms for controlling the populations of Asian clams continues. Current projects are focused on controlling the spread of the Asian clam […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – Embracing and celebrating what they have. That’s what Meyers is doing. “Our little niche out here is we are a recreation Mecca,” Rene Brejc said. “We are celebrating Meyers tonight,” Kim Wyatt said. “Our 10-year plan is to be one of the top 10 outdoor places in Outside magazine,” Josh […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Tahoe South. It’s a place. It’s an attitude. It’s a feeling. It’s a people. It is the South Shore. “We know who we are. Now everyone else will too.” That was the tagline in a promotional video shown at Thursday’s Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority board meeting. The fast-moving segment touched […]
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By Kathryn Reed Public health is one of two reasons the Lahontan Regional Water Quality board on Wednesday voted to allow chemicals to be used to rid Lake Tahoe of invasive species – plant or animal. Public safety is the reason people who supply drinking water to thousands of people in the basin spoke against […]
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