By Kathryn Reed “I’m not going to shut down. I will fight to the Supreme Court.” That is what Cody Bass, founder and executive director of Tahoe Wellness Cooperative, told Lake Tahoe News after the South Lake Tahoe City Council today unanimously denied his appeal. Bass was appealing City Manager Nancy Kerry’s ruling that he […]
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The leadership of the South Lake Tahoe City Council is essentially remaining the same for the next year. Austin Sass and Wendy David swapped chairs on Dec. 13; so now Sass is mayor and David is mayor pro tem. The five electeds have the responsibility to decide among themselves who the mayor and mayor pro […]
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The skier who died last weekend in an avalanche at Mt. Rose has been identified as Thomas Barker of Aptos. The 64-year-old had hiked up to the chutes are of the Reno area resort on Dec. 10. As he skied into the area, going under the ropes in the closed area, he triggered the avalanche. […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Nevada’s 2016 election had a few hiccups, but it was overall a smooth, successful exercise in democracy, state and local election officials said Monday. Despite pre-election chatter about hacking and rigged systems, “Everything went very, very smoothly” during the Nov. 8 vote, Wayne Thorley, elections deputy […]
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By Maura Dolan and Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times In a loss for local governments, the California Supreme Court decided Monday that online travel companies such as Expedia Inc. are exempt from paying hotel occupancy taxes. The ruling came in one of several lawsuits filed by California cities and counties against the online firms, […]
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Nadia Guerriero is now vice president/general manager of Northstar. Prior to takin the helm of the Truckee ski resort she was senior director of base area operations, village and events. Guerriero has been with Northstar since 2007. Beth Howard, who had been GM for two years, is now COO at Beaver Creek. “Northstar is an extraordinary […]
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By Kathryn Reed When Lake Tahoe Community College students start classes in fall 2020 they might have the option of living on campus. This afternoon the college board will hear a presentation by representatives of Brailsford & Dunlavey about the feasibility of having residential housing at LTCC. The company investigated what type of housing students […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Neither state regulators nor a lawmaker who pushed through Nevada’s medical marijuana program in 2013 expect funding to be an issue as the state now moves into the realm of recreational pot sales. While at least one other state is trying to figure out where to […]
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A recent transplant to the Lake Tahoe Basin learned the hard way where not to go four-wheeling. The driver, whose name has not been released, got his Chevy Blazer stuck Dec. 11 in the meadow by Angora on the South Shore. With all the rain the area has received in the last week, it’s like […]
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A ski instructor a Northstar died at the resort on Sunday. Dennis Baltimore, 35, of Kings Beach and co-workers were going down Village Run, which gets people back to the base, when a snowboarder lost control after hitting ice. Baltimore veered to his left, went through some trees and landed in a creek. The snowboarder called […]
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