By Anne Knowles STATELINE — The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency has someone new shepherding its long overdue Regional Plan update. Harmon Zuckerman, the former Douglas County principal planner hired by the agency two years ago to oversee the RPU, resigned on Monday, a few days shy of the end of his contract. Arlo Stockham, a […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is using the same auditing firm the financially ruined Southern California city of Bell used. While the bi-state regulatory agency entered the agreement in May 2010 – six weeks before the mayor of Bell resigned – the agency chose to stick with the controversial firm when the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Saturday marks one full month since South Lake Tahoe turned the ice rink keys over to private operators. The most noticeable difference walking in is the retail shop on the right is not there. Instead, those goods are being moved to the left of the front doors, with office space being taken […]
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By Kathryn Reed Students in Bijou Community School’s Two-Way Immersion Program scored substantially better on standardized tests than their peers. And they were taking it in Spanish. In grades 2 and 3 the immersion program has 90 percent of the curriculum delivered in Spanish. Half of the 20 students in each class speak Spanish as […]
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By Kathryn Reed Twenty-seven restaurants and only eight days. It’s going to make the decision about where to eat difficult. The second annual Lake Tahoe Restaurant Week, which includes Truckee, is Oct. 2-9. To give locals an added incentive to eat out and visitors a reason to come to the basin, the event was moved […]
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By Kathryn Reed What exactly was dumped into Taylor Creek should be known late Tuesday afternoon when results from water samples taken Monday are delivered to South Shore officials. While the substance appears to be petroleum, that still needs to be confirmed. The U.S. Forest Service is recanting its earlier statement when officials said it […]
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Updated Sept. 19 at 8:10am. By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON – Water samples are expected to be taken today from Taylor Creek after an oil slick was discovered by a U.S. Forest Service employee during the weekend. “After a thorough investigation it appears that a passing motorist threw a piece of petroleum-soaked astro turf into […]
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By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON – If there were any doubt about the written (and spoken) word not thriving in Lake Tahoe, those concerns were laid to rest Friday night. Seven authors read from their work during the third annual Celebration of Writers Around the Lake at Valhalla. The event each year features authors from […]
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By Kathryn Reed While implementation of new bike trails at Lake Tahoe seems to move at a glacial pace, on the same day boards on both sides of the South Shore unanimously approved aspects of different projects that will eventually link together. First came the approval Thursday by the California Tahoe Conservancy board (with Larry […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal 10:06pm update: A spectacular air race that drew tens of thousands of spectators Friday transformed into a horrific war scene after a veteran pilot crashed his vintage plane on the tarmac just feet away from VIP box seats, forcing officials to cancel the remaining two days of the event. Early estimates were […]
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