A Reno resident is the second person arrested in connection with a burglary ring that involved Incline Village and Truckee. Washoe County sheriff’s detectives said Jason Greene, 30, pawned three guns. Green is an ex-felon and under state and federal law he is prohibited from possessing firearms. Greene was convicted in 2006 by a Washoe […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Baumanns might be getting out of the restaurant business. Kurt Baumann opened the Swiss Chalet restaurant in South Lake Tahoe in 1957. In 1959, he met his future bride who started working as a waitress. The two were married for 44 years before Kurt died in 2004. Ruth died last year. […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the South Lake Tahoe City Council has always said the convention center project is not a city project, all of a sudden the electeds want to be involved with filling in the hole. City staff has been on the periphery as the project languished in bankruptcy for more than two years. […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal More people are moving into areas abutting wooded and brushy terrain of the wild, putting more lives and property at risk of wildfire in a situation made more dangerous by a warming climate. Such was a central message issued to a convention of fire chiefs in Reno last week to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Landlords are holding up the opening of the new gas station at the Y in South Lake Tahoe as well as the T.J. Maxx store. While improvements to both buildings are nearly complete, the tenants are not allowed to open their doors. The issue with the gas station – which is owned […]
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By Kathryn Reed An angry citizenry prompted South Lake Tahoe officials to look closely at how it handles special events. Guidelines were thoroughly discussed April 3 during a City Council workshop at which six members of the public gave their input, plus one letter was read into the record. New Year’s Eve weekend’s SnowGlobe music […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee Citing two incidents that occurred last weekend, El Dorado County sheriff’s search and rescue officials urge people venturing into the back country to carefully prepare and plan for their travels. On Satruday, Robert Barber of San Diego had gone for a walk in the woods off Kiowa Street in South […]
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By Karoun Demirjian, Las Vegas Sun As the country tries to understand how Trayvon Martin — a hoodie-clad 17-year-old armed with nothing more than a cellphone, can of iced tea and bag of Skittles — was shot to death in Florida in February without anyone being charged, every possible culprit is being considered. There’s the […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION – “By no means are we in great shape, but be we are nowhere near as fragile as we were last month.” That is the assessment of the water content in the Sierra Nevada by Frank Gehrke. Gehrke, who works for the state Department of Water Resources, was at the […]
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By Kathryn Reed A nearly 32-year-old South Lake Tahoe murder case may have been solved with the arrest of a 50-year-old Carmichael man. Andrew Sanford was booked into the Sacramento County Jail in the death of Richard Swanson on March 28. Sanford, who would haven been 19 at the time, was a resident of South […]
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