Updated: Feb. 28 8:35pm. By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Phillip and Nancy Garrido have made a “full confession” to the 1991 kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in hopes of convincing prosecutors to allow Nancy Garrido to some day be released from prison, a defense attorney in the case revealed today. Nancy Garrido’s court-appointed lawyer, […]
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By Susan Wood TAHOE CITY – I felt a kinship skiing the slopes of Alpine Meadows. We’re about the same age. We’re both no frills. We’re both a little rugged. In its 50th year, Alpine’s philosophy of “it’s just the mountain” appeals to me in this day and age of carnivals, villages, casinos and caviar […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau TWIN BRIDGES — On the hill they looked just like any other snowboarders. But underneath the helmets, goggles and bulky snowboard gear, the riders at this weekend’s Pipeline Learn to Ride and Race camp are truly unique. Amy Purdy, a tall, slender young woman with long auburn hair explains that she is […]
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By Kathryn Reed Testing was going on this past week in many classrooms within Lake Tahoe Unified School District. Nothing out of the ordinary about that. And that is the problem for some educators. Testing seems to be more common than teaching. Politics is a large part of the problem. It’s people in Washington, D.C., […]
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By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH — Art Chapman is a man who knows what he wants. What he wants is to turn Homewood Mountain Resort into a profitable year-round destination. What locals want is a mixed bag. Thirty-three people spoke at a public hearing Feb. 23 before the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. It was split […]
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By Kathryn Reed “Thank you for your email. Eugene Palazzo is no longer employeed (sic) with the City of South Lake Tahoe. Please contact Tracy Franklin at 530-542-6093 or tfranklin@cityofslt.us. Have a great day. Gene” That is the auto-reply Gene Palazzo left on his email Feb. 23, the day he found out he no longer […]
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Updated Feb. 25, 2011, 11:30am. Publisher’s note: Hillary Santana, the 2008 salutatorian at South Tahoe High School who works for the Lake Tahoe Basin Forest Service office in the summer, is an exchange student in New Zealand from her university in Pennsylvania. The following is from her dad. Hillary is the daughter of David and […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — Making Nevada Beach accessible to people with disabilities and improving water quality are the goals of the $1.2 million project under way at the popular beach-day use-campground just east of the Stateline casinos. With work having begun last summer, crews expect to wrap things up before Fourth of July. This […]
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By Kathryn Reed Peak 9441 is listed on maps just like that, with no other name. Mike Shreve is on a mission to name the Desolation Wilderness peak Mount Ryan after his son who died in 2003. In 1992, when the South Lake Tahoe father and son were on a Boy Scout backpacking trip, Ryan […]
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By Kathryn Reed What a difference a week makes. Last Sunday the trek to Angora Ridge was all about the claws on our snowshoes. Today it would likely be about making first tracks or hoping a snowmobiler got there first. It’s a climb, no doubt about that. But the views – oh, they are worth […]
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