By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON — Imagine nearly a hundred people in your house eating dinner and you don’t know most of them. That was the reality Saturday night for Dee Dee and Raymond Goodrich. They used to own the Heller Estate. On Dec. 4 they were special guests for the Tahoe Tallac Association’s annual […]
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By Susan Wood and Kathryn Reed Hear those bells? Then you are a believer. Ty Loughlin not only believes in Santa Claus, he has lived the Polar Express story. A year ago he tied the silver bell to his backpack — but it disappeared. Because the 8-year-old boy’s family owns the book and movie he […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau ROUND HILL — Seven doctors, nurses and assistants, two monitors, multiple trays of surgical tools and two large adjustable spotlights fill the cadaver lab Dec. 3 at Tahoe Orthopedic & Sports Medicine in Round Hill. The things that resemble raw turkeys on metal stands — those were the cadavers. They were not […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s definitely the holiday season in South Lake Tahoe now that Santa has turned on the lights on the community tree and the menorah has been lighted. With nearly 200 people gathered in the center of town by the Lake Tahoe Visitors Center satellite office, student choir groups sang carols. Paul Kushner […]
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By Kathryn Reed Honeymoons are supposed to last longer than eight days for department heads. No so for South Lake Tahoe’s police chief. Brian Uhler has been tasked with handling a reorganization of the department because Lt. Marty Hale has announced he is retiring Dec. 30. “We’re considering a restructure. It could possibly mean more […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — It was not the traditional Santa’s workshop, but a definite holiday buzz was coming from MontBleu’s convention center. By 10am the Mardis Gras tree was well assembled, as was the Party in a Box tree. Food Network star Guy Fieri sent items to Tahoe for a tree with his name […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe firefighters have taken a vote of no confidence against Fire Chief Lorenzo Gigliotti. The lack of credibility, communication and leadership are the issues firefighters have with the chief. Gigliotti, who will have been at the helm for six years as of January, did not know about the vote until […]
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By Kathryn Reed If things keep going like this, those who talk about the winter of 1952 may have competition when it comes to bragging. That winter, the onslaught of snow that brought the white stuff to the second story of homes and businesses in Lake Tahoe didn’t start until Jan. 11. As the calendar […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE — The giant boulder that serves as a welcome sign where Montreal Avenue and Heavenly Village Way meet signals a solid decade of vision and work. But the word that may keep the nation’s first bi-state park from opening is money. The park on the California-Nevada state line is feeling the […]
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By Kathryn Reed GARDNERVILLE — Every now and then I don’t know what to do in Tahoe. OK, it’s more like every May and early November. Too much snow to hike, not enough to ski. Two weeks ago was no different. On what started as a sunny Sunday, we headed to the Carson Valley in […]
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