By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — No wonder Lakeside Inn is a favorite with locals. Good food, excellent prices, fun dealers, great guest service. And no wonder tourists and locals like to stay there. Reasonable room rates, spacious hot tub, outdoor pool that isn’t visible from the highway, walking distance to lots of things. Having never […]
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By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee Three months into the state’s longest budget impasse, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders reached a handshake deal Friday to close the state’s $19 billion deficit, leaders announced after a five-hour meeting. To bridge the gap, they are relying on about $7.5 billion in spending cuts, as well as delaying […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Using secret testimony from kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard, prosecutors today unveiled a new 18-count indictment charging Phillip and Nancy Garrido with abducting Dugard in 1991, when she was 11. Nancy Garrido was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to the new charges, which were handed up by an El Dorado […]
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By Kathryn Reed Poverty with a view has never been more accurate than now. Though the powers that be would like to remove the phrase from the vernacular of South Shore locals, the truth is the phrase cannot be disputed. Tahoe has gorgeous views and the people living among the pines at 6,200 feet are […]
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By Kathryn Reed On the same day the South Lake Tahoe City Council is expected to vote on a medical marijuana cultivation ordinance, residents will elect three new council members and all of California will decide if pot should be legalized via Proposition 19. Before Nov. 2, the City Council will have a public hearing […]
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By Kathryn Reed In two days, a new fiscal year begins in South Lake Tahoe. The multi-million dollar budget approved in August on the eve of then-City Manager Dave Jinkens’ departure is rife with questions. Lake Tahoe News has been trying to put the pieces together, but the city has been hampering those efforts. The […]
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By Kathryn Reed Pedaling around Camp Richardson could be a drastically different experience in the not so distant future. Technically it’s called the Pope Baldwin National Recreation Trail, though most people who’ve been on this stretch of asphalt on the South Shore know it as the Camp Rich Trail. With nearly 110,000 trips – that […]
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By Kathryn Reed Foreclosure. It is the word circulating around the bankrupt convention center project in South Lake Tahoe. Randy Lane, principal with Lake Tahoe Development Community, wants the creditors to hold off a few more years. “We are just asking for more time to figure things out and sell the property, which has not […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — “I’m going out of state and getting trashed” is not what my Mom wanted to hear I was doing on my birthday. It was met with silence on the other end of the phone. The truth is I’ve spent the last two nights in Nevada – out of state — […]
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By Kathryn Reed Mediation this week failed to resolve the lawsuit MV Transportation filed against the South Shore’s transit agency and the members in the organization. MV Transportation filed a lawsuit against South Tahoe Area Transit Authority after the agency severed the contract with the Fairfield-based company. MV had signed a three-year contract in summer […]
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