By Susan Wood FALLEN LEAF LAKE – Tears, cheers, jeers and sneers encapsulated a contentious community meeting last weekend at this normally quiet hamlet that backs up to the Desolation Wilderness near South Lake Tahoe. At stake for the standing-room-only crowd is the hub of the village — the marina and general store. Long-time, fourth-generation […]
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By Kathryn Reed It felt more like going to a construction site than school for students and staff at South Tahoe High School on the first day of school. The campus on Sept. 8 looked a whole lot different compared to when everyone left for summer break in June. Building is under way, big equipment […]
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By Kathryn Reed Parents filled the Lake Tahoe Unified School District boardroom Sept. 8 to complain about the bus routes taking students living in outlying areas to Bijou Community School. Liz Muckerman and Heidi Hill Drum spoke on behalf of the parents. Both said they understand the state has cut $200,000 from the district’s transportation […]
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TRUCKEE — Four people survived a single-engine plane crash Monday night while taking off from the Truckee Tahoe Airport. The Associated Press is reporting that National Transportation Safety Board officials will arrive today to begin the investigation. The plane reportedly flipped over and landed upside down. AP said one person was airlifted to an area […]
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By Kathryn Reed One or both of South Lake Tahoe’s city attorneys may be asked to pack up their office after having only been on the job since June. In a special closed session meeting today at 9am the City Council will meet to evaluate Patrick Enright and Jacqueline Mittelstadt, the two attorneys. It seems […]
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By Kathryn Reed Despite Phillip Garrido’s now-well publicized criminal exploits with women, his name was never one that crossed the desks of law enforcement after Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted June 10, 1991. “We didn’t have anything that was remotely close to these people. These people just did not come up on the radar screen […]
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By Susan Wood Businesses and agencies in the two states flanking Lake Tahoe are reporting double-digit declines in lodging, gaming, retail and travel demand. Lake Tahoe tourism officials say most every commerce indicator points to a struggling economy in the world of tourism for the summer season, which in the basin officially ended Labor Day […]
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By El Dorado County Health Services Department El Dorado County Animal Services is advising pet owners in the Cornelian Drive area of Meyers in South Lake Tahoe to be watchful of their dogs, after receiving several reports of dogs from that neighborhood that were exhibiting unusual illnesses, including seizures. “We know of at least four […]
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By Kathryn Reed “Carl (Probyn) showed up at my door that morning. He came running up the steps, busting through the door, not even knocking. He was in a flipping state of panic. He said, “Someone grabbed my daughter.’” Soon thereafter law enforcement questioned Peggy Lynn about that fateful day that changed the lives of […]
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By Kathryn Reed and Susan Wood The community needed this. That was the overwhelming sentiment expressed during and after the pink ribbon parade through South Lake Tahoe on Sept. 6 The late morning walk from the county library to South Tahoe Middle School was the reverse route of the 10-year anniversary walk marking Jaycee Lee […]
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