On the evening of Dec. 3, children on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe can be transformed to the magical journey made famous in author Chris Van Allsburg’s book “The Polar Express”. Children and their families begin their journey of make-believe from either the South Tahoe Recreation Center or the Forever Dance Studios (behind Safeway […]
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The parent club at Zephyr Cove Elementary School recently contributed some new technology — a Starboard — to the second-grade class. It became fully operational and interactive this month. “(We) watched a few PowerPoint presentations about Veterans Day, we then looked at photos from the Vietnam Memorial. We read the book ‘The Wall ‘and saw […]
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This holiday season will bring the first “Light Up Lake Tahoe†to the South Shore, when businesses around town will be aglow with exterior holiday lighting. Lights will be provided at no charge to interested businesses. Lights are to be installed in time for the Dec. 4 kick-off, and kept on through the holiday/winter season. […]
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Thanksgiving is going to be even more special for one South Lake Tahoe couple this year. It will be their first holiday in their own home — one they own. Through a state grant the city dispenses the couple qualified for $140,000. This supplemented the $130,000 conventional loan they had secured. The Goralskis moved into […]
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The annual holiday fair at Valhalla near Camp Richardson on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe is all about showing off what local artists, crafts people, soap makers, photographers, authors have been busy working on. The three-day event concludes Nov. 22. The Grand Hall will be open from 10am-4pm. The event is free. A shuttle […]
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Southwest Airlines it making it easy to get to Tahoe. But there is less than two weeks left to save big on a Lake Tahoe ski vacation, when traveling Nov. 4 to Feb. 10. “With an El Nino winter predicted, Southwest’s timing of a Lake Tahoe ski package is absolutely ideal,†Executive Director Bill Hoffman […]
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The historic Virginia & Truckee Railway will stoke its boilers, blow the whistles and highball this holiday season (Nov. 27-Dec. 19) for a series of theme rides over four weekends during Thanksgiving and Christmas. Historians in Victorian dress, cowboy regalia and other period attire will represent “living legends†of the area, riding along with passengers […]
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By Kathryn Reed A line of parents and children streamed out of Bijou Community School and down the hall – all in an attempt to not get the flu. Barton Community Hospital staff dispensed the nasal vaccination for the H1N1 flu for free to ages 2-9 on Thursday. “I figured we might as well give […]
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El Dorado Community Foundation handed out $60,000 Thursday night to a slew of South Lake Tahoe organizations. It was a record amount of money given out at the event at Inn by the Lake. However, not all of the requests could be met. Fifty local groups applied for $210,437.85. In the Foundation’s request for proposals […]
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David C. Antonucci of Tahoma has written a book chronicling the 1960 Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley. Historical photographs are by official Olympic photographer Bill Briner. “Snowball’s Chance – The Story of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games†contains what the author says is the only complete account of the preparations, pageantry, ceremonies, competitions and […]
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