By Kathryn Reed Farm fresh produce is headed to Lake Tahoe as the annual farmers’ market season begins. Tahoe City gets things going May 27 at Commons Beach. The 8am-1pm market is every Thursday through September. South Lake Tahoe’s market opens five days later – June 1 – in the parking lot of the American […]
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By Kathryn Reed Census workers will be out in force in Lake Tahoe this month because the number of people who returned forms by mail is lacking. Throughout South Lake Tahoe 40 percent of the forms were returned. From Ski Run Boulevard to the state line that figure drops to 28 percent. That area of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Dave Borges says he never made it to the elite category in wrestling. That changed Saturday night when he received the Lifetime Service Award from the state Wrestling Hall of Fame. “Dave is being recognized because of his long years of dedication and work and community service mindedness within the wrestling arena,” […]
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By Kathryn Reed All of the information about being an international student at Lake Tahoe Community College or studying abroad is still on the website, but the program no longer exists. It will continue to be there, just changing a bit. The college board of trustees this week eliminated the program as well as Jen […]
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By Kathryn Reed The investor developer Randy Lane lined up to take over the stalled South Lake Tahoe convention center project backed out of the deal this week. “The Investor is no longer pursuing an investment in the Debtor or otherwise pursuing a plan in the Case,” reads Michael Rosenfeld’s May 12 letter to the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Creating a working document with a bit of elasticity is the goal of the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. With the current Forest Plan dating to 1988 and its roughly dozen amendments since then, the local Forest Service office is looking to create a new bible of sorts from which to seek […]
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By Kathryn Reed A familiar face has been hired to replace Susan Middleton, who after 24 years is retiring this summer as vice president of Academic Affairs and Student Services at Lake Tahoe Community College. Tom Greene was once a counselor at the South Lake Tahoe two-year institution. He is currently associate vice president of […]
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By Susan Wood and Kathryn Reed Twenty-four hours after the Earth experienced its warmest day on record, Mother Nature cooked up a winter storm for the Sierra Nevada that showed the extremes climatologists and even the “Farmers Almanac” predicted last fall. “We could have a very cool May. And if it stays this way, it […]
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By Kathryn Reed Does that sniffling sound from friends, family members and co-workers seem louder, more constant and earlier than years past? Allergy season is here – in the Lake Tahoe Basin, Carson Valley and seemingly everywhere else. Physicians’ offices affiliated with Barton Health have seen a 27 percent rise in allergy shots for the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Something about Mount Tallac calls to people – more so in the summer than now. Still covered in snow, the icon of the South Shore of Lake Tahoe that seems to be present no matter where one is, now requires an ice ax, crampons and an appreciation for Mother Nature if one […]
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