Updated 1pm Feb. 17. By Kathryn Reed Most of East West Partners’ holdings in the greater Lake Tahoe area are now under bankruptcy protection. The 335-undeveloped acres known as Northstar Highlands which East West has the rights to build 1,450 units on below the Ritz Carlton; the golf courses Old Greenwood and Gray’s Crossing; and […]
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By Kathryn Reed Divided along what has become the usual line, the South Lake Tahoe City Council voted 3-2 on Feb. 15 to support Lake Tahoe Development Company having 30 more days to own sole rights to coming up with a plan to get the stalled convention center project out of bankruptcy. Today is the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Garbage companies are not recession-proof. Empty buildings mean no garbage is being produced. An 11-acre site that used to be bustling with business is now an idle eyesore of concrete and rebar that produces no trash. Construction, other than at South Tahoe High School, is pretty much non-existent on the South Shore. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Having a cashed check in hand for a business license in the city of South Lake Tahoe does not mean a business will get the license. Owners of CrossFit gym learned that the hard way. The gym opened last summer on Shop Street. They filled out the paperwork, paid the city its […]
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By Kathryn Reed Pine fills the senses. A chill is in the air. The building seems massive with only a few pieces of equipment inside. A pile of wood fills one corner; wood chips are at the other end of a large red chipper that looks like it could spit out an entire pine tree. […]
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By NEWS-10 A small plane made an emergency landing on Latrobe Road just off of Highway 50 Saturday morning, according to officials. California Highway Patrol spokesman Michael Bradley said the single-occupant plane landed just after 11 a.m. The plane clipped a car on the way down, but no one inside was injured. The pilot walked […]
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By Sam Stanton and Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee Phillip Garrido apparently had a way with people. Repeatedly over the years he managed to charm the prison officials and parole agents supervising him to the point that they lauded him in letters. Even when they detected him acting “real weird” or “strange” during visits to his […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Tahoe High School’s class of 2010 will graduate knowing what it’s like to learn in a new building with state-of-the-art equipment. The building in what was the parking lot at the front of the school will open the day after spring break in April. At Tuesday’s school board meeting the funds […]
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By Kathryn Reed Randy Lane has an investor to take over the convention center project in South Lake Tahoe. “We are still going to be involved, but these other people will be the face of the project,” said Lane, the main force behind Lake Tahoe Development Company. But who the investor is is not being […]
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By Kathryn Reed Judging by the perplexed looks on the board members’ faces, it was clear the decision they need to make regarding issuing the second series of bonds is going to take some soul searching, coming to grips with potential public outcry and a need to better understand economics. The mathematician on Lake Tahoe […]
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