What would an election season be like if the political party of the candidate were never stated? If a picture of the candidate were never seen? If the voice of the candidate never heard? If the gender, religious affiliation, sexual orientation – were never known? What if there were no mudslinging? What if only the […]
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By Kathryn Reed It wasn’t another earthquake Monday night. It was San Francisco fans jumping up and down, celebrating the Giants becoming World Series champions. The Giants won 3-1 against the Rangers in Texas, clinching it all in five games. It started as the same pitching matchup as Game 1 when Tim Lincecum dominated Cliff […]
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By Kathryn Reed If the 2008-09 audit of South Tahoe Area Transit Authority’s books had been completed before this fall, would it have meant avoiding bankruptcy? Dan Garrison, treasurer of the board of the bankrupt agency since January 2010, doesn’t think so. He says several factors contributed to the financial ruin of STATA. Joe Harn, […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s hard to know if the dog park in South Lake Tahoe is for the four-legged members of the family to socialize or if it’s really for the adults to get out and meet new people. A lot of both often take place every day at the 2-year-old dog park. Some stay […]
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By Susan Wood BRIDGEWATER CORNERS, Vt. – I made the summit of the scenic crescendo on the road bike and instantly saw why we took the optional route on the Bike Vermont October tour. After leaving 40 years ago, the pilgrimage to my hometown of Woodstock, technically the nearby small bedroom community of Pomfret, involved […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS — A bunch of kids sit around a pond with plastic bottles floating on it. It’s their fault. Each one thought it would be OK to toss their empty into the water. “We created this problem, didn’t we?” Cindy Wise asks the kindergartners. This pond, as it were, is actually a […]
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By Kathryn Reed The man who oversees the department that accounts for the largest expense on El Dorado County’s ledger will face his five bosses Monday. Sheriff Fred Kollar isn’t planning to go into the Board of Supervisors room with guns drawn, but he also isn’t about roll over and play dead even though he’ll […]
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Updated: Oct. 25, 2010, 4:50pm. By Kathryn Reed Vail Resorts has expanded its footprint on the greater Lake Tahoe area with the announcement Oct. 25 of its acquisition of Northstar-at-Tahoe. The Colorado-based company acquired the stock of the companies that operate Northstar-at-Tahoe from Booth Creek Resort Properties LLC and other sellers for $63 million. The […]
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By Stephen Ward INCLINE VILLAGE – Using a propane flame to shoot silver iodide into the sky with a unit that resembles a prison watchtower with a trash barrel aimed at the sky attached to the top is how the Desert Research Institute is helping Mother Nature produce more moisture. Ground tactic cloud seeding is […]
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By Susan Wood WOODSTOCK, Vt. – The red carpet Vermont throws out in fall lies beyond the ground beneath its world-renowned maple trees. In the heart of central Vermont, Woodstock boasts a AAA four-diamond rated hotel as rich with history and iconic to the quaint, colonial-style village as the Rockefeller name and the origin of […]
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