By Kathryn Reed Shakespeare is back – really back. Last season the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival did not put on a full play of William Shakespeare. While officials say the abridged version of his work that was staged was well received by audiences, plenty of others stayed away because it wasn’t a true Shakespeare play. […]
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By Susan Wood TRUCKEE – Could Northstar-at-Tahoe be the next Beaver Creek? Or a Deer Valley? Those are the questions Vail Resorts is posing as it plans to invest $30 million in capital improvements into the Truckee-area resort for the 2011-12 ski season. Upgrades include a mid-mountain lodge at the top of the Tahoe Zephyr […]
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By Susan Wood It was a win-win Saturday. Thousands of the orange-and-black faithful enjoyed a dominant 10-0 win by San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain over their rival Los Angeles Dodgers, while hundreds of fans remembered last year’s performance by coming out to view the World Series Championship trophy on tour in South Lake Tahoe that afternoon. […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy Author, professional speaker, civil and environmental engineer and self-proclaimed myth buster, David Antonucci says he just wants to set the record straight about, as he puts it, the widely repeated fibs, fakes and falsehoods surrounding Lake Tahoe. In a recent interview with Lake Tahoe News, Antonucci said, “We spend hundreds of […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy Hilton Hotels is changing the way it does business because of a green lodging conference in South Lake Tahoe. Will something that significant happen at this summer’s conference? Only time can answer that question. But those putting the Aug. 22-25 seminar together are aiming for big things. “It’ll be a larger […]
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By Susan Wood and Brenda Knox PHILLIPS – The last snow survey of the season is for all Lake Tahoe residents who lamented over shoveling enough to skew the view of the neighborhood while others who chose the slopes to lose sight of their skis and boards. Snow measurements taken by California Department of Water […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy When times are tough in a community, there seem to be multiple indicators signifying just how bad things really are. You see closed storefronts, not much exterior maintenance being done to spruce up buildings, unfinished building projects or simply not many new building starts, and fairly high unemployment. In the Lake […]
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By Susan Wood PLACERVILLE — El Dorado County wineries represent a gutsy, resilient lot. First, some have found their pricing endured the economic recession. Plus, an aging America hasn’t dampened the spirits of a youth movement interested in wine – with this county being no exception. Now, a wild winter came out in full force […]
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By Nancy Oliver Hayden STATELINE — The room was so quiet one could have heard a pin drop when Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto started talking about the myriad issues in the Silver State. “The first of many issues in Nevada is the methamphetamine problem,” she said. “Very few people knew it was a […]
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By Kathryn Reed Frustration isn’t the emotion one should have while cross country skiing. But this particular day it was my word of choice – at least initially. So I took the skis off, stuck them in the snow hoping no one would walk off with them, and decided to walk the golf course. Sue […]
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