By Kathryn Reed Retirement is not a place Dennis Crabb wants to rush to. Instead, the long-time municipal attorney is easing into it. In June he will have given up all his lawyerly responsibilities except for attorney for Truckee and Happy Homestead Cemetery District. He is phasing out his job as counsel for Sutter Creek, […]
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By Claire Fortier How could the South Tahoe Public Utilities District justify a 4 percent increase when the economy of South Lake Tahoe has flat lined? That was the question asked by a half dozen people who addressed the STPUD board during its public hearing Thursday night. The board answered by directing STPUD staff to […]
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By Kathryn Reed As the economy sputters, a new phrase could be coined – fly and dash. Lake Tahoe Airport has seen an increase in the number of pilots gassing up without paying, as well as shunning the landing fees. “I attribute it to the economy,” Michael Golden, who operates Mountain West Aviation, told Lake […]
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By Kathryn Reed In less than an hour and with a split vote, the South Lake Tahoe City Council on Tuesday declared 20 percent of the city blighted in order to create a redevelopment area that encompasses 3,100 acres. State law requires an area be deemed blighted before creating a redevelopment area. With the latest […]
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By Kathryn Reed When Kingsbury Middle School closed two years ago no one thought it would re-open. That thinking was solidified with the approval of Douglas County School District’s facilities master plan. The plan that was OK’d by the board in April calls for getting rid of the Stateline parcel or at a minimum lease […]
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By Kathryn Reed Change. It’s the one constant for students, parents and educators at the lake schools in Douglas County School District. More change is in the works. One day there will be only one school – a K-12 on the campus of Whittell High School. This won’t happen for several years, but still, just […]
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Powerful. Kind-hearted. Loving. Hard-working. These words are how the daughters of Donald Lee Reed described their father following his death April 28, 2010. Yet, Don was so much more than these simple words. He began life Dec. 12, 1934, in Sioux City, Iowa, as the eldest son of Ray and Isabell Reed. The family lived […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee Late-season storms did wonders for California’s snowpack, fluffing those white drifts in the Sierra Nevada to 143 percent of average as of Friday. A month ago, the total stood at 106 percent of normal. The readings came in the season’s final snow survey on Friday by the California Department of […]
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By Austin Fay When Karen Frates, assistant general manager of Tahoe Seasons Resort, was asked why she was at the Tahoe Tourism Town Forum, she replied jokingly, “I’m here for encouragement.” She insinuated the 160-suite resort near Stateline is struggling, as is everyone in this recession. The Tahoe Tourism Town Forum provided about 150 business […]
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By Kathryn Reed It wasn’t the usual Wednesday Soroptimist lunch. On this particular afternoon it all about four girls who aren’t even members – but they might be one day. Jacquelyn Baines, Lauren Andrew, Morgan King and Gabriella Tracy – all seniors at Whittell High School – were recognized as Young Women of Distinction by […]
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