By Linda Fine Conaboy Just when you thought the economy was soon to be irretrievably annihilated, along comes Chase International Realty with some eye-popping homes, definitely worth a look-see. “The luxury home market is now showing fantastic opportunity for buyers,” said Shari Chase, as she greeted people at one of the Glenbrook properties her company […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the last of three stories about Edgewood Companies. By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Brooks Park, the mastermind behind so much of what Edgewood Companies developed at Lake Tahoe under the business’ former name of Park Cattle, envisioned lodging on the golf course. Eleven years after his death, the environmental document for […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the second of three stories about the Park family and Edgewood Companies’ evolution at Lake Tahoe. By Linda Fine Conaboy The Park family began to rent what Brooks Park called “parking lot land” to the likes of Harvey Gross and Bill Harrah in the 1950s. His parents still lived at Friday’s […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy Lake Tahoe News resurrected an interview conducted with Brooks Park in 1992 when he was 79. He quietly filled the role of family patriarch and owned Park Cattle Company, now known as Edgewood Companies. Brooks died in 2000. At the request of family members, this interview was not published until now. […]
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By Kathryn Reed DESOLATION WILDERNESS – Water. It’s going to be the common denominator for all hikes in and around the Lake Tahoe area for a while. And that’s a good thing when waterfalls are involved. Rumbling water is a constant sound on the trek from the Eagle Falls parking lot to Eagle Lake. Sometimes […]
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By Stephen Ward TAHOE CITY-The frustration was palpable among the roughly 85 firefighters and homeowners who gathered for the Wildfire Summit at the Granlibakken Resort in Tahoe City on Friday. The crowd, who came to learn more about preventing wildfires, expressed their grievances about residents they considered inconsiderate and/or clueless about fire safety within their […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the second of two stories about the Angora Fire. By Renee Gorevin Fortunately for her, my daughter still had her bags packed, just recently returned from a study abroad program in Paris. Investigating the source of the smoke, my son and his friend had ventured out behind our house, creating a […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the first of two stories about people who lived through the June 24, 2007, Angora Fire. By Susan Baker The North Coast is one of the most beautiful places in California, probably the reason we vacation there every year right after school is out. June 2007 was no different. We packed […]
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By Kathryn Reed Ruts from illegal 4-wheel drive activity are marring U.S. Forest Service land throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin. In Tahoe City, what was a meadow with strands of green grass covering it now looks like a crime scene. And it is. A price tag has not been put on the damage. The most […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Museums are more relevant today in this high-tech world because they offer people something tangible, concrete and tactile. At least that’s how curators and volunteers think. “Nothing has changed, and yet everything has,” is how Diane Johnson, who runs the Lake Tahoe Historical Society, describes life at the lake. It […]
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