By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College hopes to return to its roots a bit this fall by offering community education. While the state mandates the dollars it doles out to two-year institutions be largely spent on courses geared toward students who will transfer to four-year colleges and for remedial purposes, it hasn’t always been […]
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By Kathryn Reed “No dogs allowed” signs will soon be erected at the entrances of the Upper Truckee Marsh. With 10 years of data recorded since the California Tahoe Conservancy bought the South Shore property for $10 million, the conclusion is wildlife and their habitat are not being protected. This is because dogs are running […]
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By Kathryn Reed Water races from what appears to be another tributary of Lake Tahoe. This wouldn’t be unusual right now based on the amount of snow, rain on snow and snowmelt the Lake Tahoe Basin continues experience. But this area in South Lake Tahoe isn’t a normal outflow. A barrier beach about 45 feet […]
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By Stephen Ward RENO — Carbon emissions and global warming are not concepts easily conveyed to teenagers. Telling them what it might mean to their ability to ski in Tahoe in the future made it real. “It wasn’t a boring way of learning,” student Tyler Groves said. The nonprofit Alliance for Climate Education is on […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Characterizing the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency as a heavy-handed bureaucracy treading on property rights and overly influenced by California, Nevada lawmakers are seeking to pull the state from the organization. Legislators from Southern Nevada, Washoe County and Douglas County are backing legislation to withdraw Nevada from the Tahoe Regional Planning […]
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Michael David Cocores passed away suddenly at his home in Gardnerville, Nev., on March 17, 2011. He was 45. Mike was born Jan. 24, 1966. He was raised in South Lake Tahoe. He attended Tahoe Valley Elementary, South Tahoe Middle School, and graduated from South Tahoe High in 1984. Mike took all honors classes, but […]
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By Kathryn Reed “Oh, think twice. It’s just another day for you and me in paradise. Just think about it.” Is the Lake Tahoe Basin really paradise? • Latest unemployment figure for South Lake Tahoe is 17.4 percent • 7,000 jobs in gaming have been lost since 1990 • The basin lost 15 percent of […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — History and natural beauty come together in a magical way along the easy Lam Watah trail. “This beautiful piece of land has many fascinating connections to the past. For centuries, the Washoe used it as a summer encampment. It has been logged, and grazed by cattle,” reads the interpretive sign. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Carol Stiles wants out of her hotel room and into Kelly Ridge. American Baptist Homes of the West, which runs the affordable senior housing complex in South Lake Tahoe, isn’t letting her in even though she had a signed agreement. Now both parties are in court. El Dorado County Superior Court Judge […]
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By Kathryn Reed Positive adult intervention can put young people on a course of success. Four students who are part of the A Team – a group of South Tahoe and Mt. Tallac high school students — delivered that message. “Many of us grow up too fast,” Alexandra Salinas told Soroptimist International Tahoe Sierra at […]
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