By Kathryn Reed More than one billion dollars — $1,000,000,000 – is what has been spent on the environmental improvement program in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The goal is to increase lake clarity. Clarity is not declining as rapidly as it once was, but it’s still declining each year. That makes the programs winners, according […]
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By Kathryn Reed Even though the South Lake City Council in August voted to change the recreation bonds from non-taxable to taxable to allow the private ice rink operators to legally make a profit, the board with the ultimate power to ensure that happens didn’t have its first meeting about the issue until Monday. And […]
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By Kathryn Reed Smoke fills the air. It’s hard to see. Flames all around. It doesn’t matter. No time to think; just time to instinctively react. Someone up the narrow stairs is injured. It’s going to take careful maneuvering to get them out of the engulfed house on a gurney. Situations like this happen all […]
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By Kathryn Reed At 13, Stephanie Hernandez doesn’t have the life experiences to write lyrics about the angst of a woman scorned, but she does have the voice and conviction to deliver the words for the world to hear. The South Tahoe Middle School eighth-grader will be traveling to Anaheim next weekend to audition for […]
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By Kathryn Reed Clicking of tap shoes fill the room. Girls in skirts from the 1930s. High school boys in suspenders and vests. It must be “42nd Street” – on Viking Way. Alec Niven plays the lead dancer Billy Lowler, while Jack Percival has the lead non-dancing role as Julian Marsh. Tall and thin, the […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Feathers. Cross them off the list of decorations to go on the Christmas tree. No matter how “in” they are this year, they combust rapidly. This was evident Wednesday as Eric Guevin set fire to decorations from trees assembled at MontBleu for the Festival of Trees and Lights that starts […]
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By Kathryn Reed From environmental planner to book publisher to book distributor to bookstore owner. That has been the career path of South Lake Tahoe’s Michael Scialfa. How long he will have the title of bookstore owner remains to be seen. For now, Lake Tahoe Books and Art is what’s called a pop-up bookstore. It […]
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By Kathryn Reed “Bring it on!” That was essentially what the five members of South Lake Tahoe’s City Council said Tuesday night at the conclusion of a one-hour special meeting about the medical marijuana ordinance. “Let them react to us for a change,” Councilman Tom Davis said after Councilman Bruce Grego led the charge to […]
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By Kathryn Reed No white coats, no stethoscopes around their necks. One could easily mistake this threesome for just an ordinary group of friends. But they aren’t. Paul Rork, Greg Bergner and Brooks Martin are the reason the Barton Community Clinic exists. In 1989, they were the doctors who made up Tahoe Family Physicians. That […]
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By Kathryn Reed A month after the California State Park and Recreation Commission voted unanimously to move Lake Tahoe Golf Course into Washoe Meadows State Park, a group has filed a lawsuit to prohibit that from happening. “I would like people to know this has consequences for the entire state,” Lynne Paulson, who is part […]
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