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Long-time slide comes down
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:45pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Heavy machinery was used to dismantle the super-slide at the defunct amusement park off Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe. The amusement park has been called an example o...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Prescribed burns present health dangers
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:35pmThose prescribed burns are the deadliest thing to mankind. Be aware of what dangerous carcinogens are blowing in our faces. Taking care of our forests by torching is a reckless, lazy man's approach...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Smoking can be a safety issue
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:34pmIn reference to the letter to the editor regarding cigarette smoking by road construction workers while on the job, the concern over throwing cigarette butts into the woods is very valid. But, the ...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Utility district needs better leadership
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:33pmLast week I had the opportunity to witness the candidate forum sponsored and orchestrated by the South Tahoe Public Utility District management and employees. In a short time it was obvious who the...
Skate House gets funds
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:32pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Shawn Baughman of the Skate House receives a donation from the American Legion Auxiliary Post 795 secretary Carol Olivas to help fund children's activities at the "Ska...
SIROTA: TV That Lifts Journalism Back 'Up'
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:30pmWaking up at 4 a.m. is rarely enjoyable, and arising at that unspeakable hour to appear on a cable news show is particularly painful. In such situations, you feel as if you're dragging yourself out...
What's Cookin' at Callie's Cabin?: The big pumpkin chill
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:30pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - As a kid I remember it didn't bother me when, in tale of Cinderella, the fairy godmother turns a pumpkin into a carriage, but it later morphs to a pumpkin. I must have...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Vote 'no' on Measure R
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:26pmI just read the impartial analysis of Measure R prepared by County Counsel Louis B. Green that appears in the voter guide. It is his last paragraph that caught my eye. Many people are OK with a 50/...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Safe winter parking needed by Camp Richardson
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:24pmMy wife and I live in South Tahoe and enjoy cross country skiing and snowshoeing in the woods and along the lake near the Valhalla estates. We parked at Valhalla until the U.S. Forest Service close...
SAUNDERS: Gridlock government
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:21pmWhat is the purpose of high-occupancy vehicle lanes? Is it to make people who aren't in car pool lanes feel resentful? Or, as University of California, Berkeley, civil and environmental engineering...
KUDOS & KINDNESS: Community outings appreciated
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:15pmBarton Skilled Nursing would like to thank our wonderful community for supporting us with our summer outings this year.We appreciate Harrah's for our monthly dinners, Heavenly for the amazing gondo...
City combines parks and recreation positions
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:00pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The city's new recreation programs coordinator might just have to have eight arms, eight legs and four brains.The new position, recreation programs coordinator, currently...
SnowGlobe Music Festival announced for South Lake
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 4:47pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - It looks like visitors to South Lake Tahoe and residents will finally have something to do on New Years Eve, rather than wander aimlessly on Highway 50."This is part o...
SnowGlobe Music Festival announced for South Lake
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 4:47pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - It looks like visitors to South Lake Tahoe and residents will finally have something to do on New Years Eve, rather than wander aimlessly on Highway 50."This is part o...
Realtors to hold awards and installation dinner Friday
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 4:44pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Amidst the beauty of the lakeside Edgewood Tahoe and the sounds of "Ike & Martin," Amanda Adams, South Lake Tahoe Association of Realtors' 2011 President, will pass the g...
Traffic controls will continue through next week
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 4:25pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Caltrans will continue to intermittently close two lanes of Highway 50 through South Lake Tahoe as they work on the curbs, sidewalks and gutters at least until Nov. 4. Wo...
Council, commissioners to hold joint meeting Friday
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 4:23pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The South Lake Tahoe City Council and the Douglas County Board of Commissioners will hold a joint meeting from noon to 4 p.m. Nov. 4 at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course.The Sou...
City releases online marijuana reporting system results
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 4:21pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The city's online reporting system for marijuana grows has led to a child endangerment case and the seizure of more than 90 marijuana plants from a residence in the city,...
Utility district board president asked to apologize for staff dispute
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 4:16pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The South Tahoe Public Utility District Board of Directors has asked Board President Dale Rise to apologize for a July incident where he allegedly became verbally abusive...
City, Andoh settle police racism suit
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 4:14pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - South Lake Tahoe has agreed to pay the South Shore's former transit administrator $5,000 to resolve a federal civil rights suit that alleged racism within the police depa...
DUI patrols planned for this weekend
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 4:13pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Law enforcement agencies on both sides of the state line will have extra personnel on the streets this weekend in search of drunken drivers.During the late evening and ea...
Wood stove linked to Meyers house fire
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 4:08pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Burning embers from an unattended wood stove are believed to be the cause of a house fire in Meyers Wednesday afternoon.Firefighters from the Lake Valley Fire Protecti...
New Year's at South Tahoe includes 3-Day SnowGlobe Festival
Submitted by Editor on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 2:12pm
There’s ample reason to bring your New Year’s Eve celebration to South Lake Tahoe this year, as the town announces its plans to host the first-ever SnowGlobe Music Festival, December 29, 30 and 31, 2011. For three days the festival will sprawl out in the luxuriant setting of Lake Tahoe’s south shore, offering three main stages and over forty-five world-class musicians to help ring in what is sure to be an unbeatable New Year’s Eve celebration, according to a news release.
North Shore ski resorts putting Tahoe on the map
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 1:59pmKINGS BEACH – “It is finally Lake Tahoe's time.” Those are the words of Squaw Valley CEO Andy Wirth. His peers Bill Rock, COO of Northstar, and Art Chapman, president and chairman of JMA Ventures,...
Proud to Say: It's hard to ignore Stowell's production this year
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 1:26pmThere have been bright spots here and there for South Tahoe football this season. They've played good football at times, and at others, not so good. But one consistent upside for the Vikings has...
STHS faces a tough foe to end season
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 1:23pmTruckee sits 7-0 in league, while South Tahoe is 0-7.The Wolverines are not only undefeated, but are on a 32 game winning streak. They claimed their fourth straight Northern 3A title in a win ag...
Comfort food led to 'Man vs. Food' series
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 12:09pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Ah, heartache.It leads to the writing of sonnets, the composition of songs and countless drowning of sorrows through wine, whiskey and the consumption of copious amoun...
Settlement reached in Tahoe pier dispute
Submitted by Editor on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 11:53amUPDATED 5:19PM: Environmental regulators and a Lake Tahoe property owner who has hosted events for the League to Save Lake Tahoe have settled a dispute over environmental rule violations that stretch back to 2008.
Tamara Fritz and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency agreed to terms this week resolving violations between April 2008 and March 2011. Go here for more.
Here is a release this afternoon from the TRPA:
Friends of the Library Book Sale
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 10:30am
Event Date:
November 5, 2011 - 10:00am The Friends of the Library Book Sale is the perfect place to get great books at bargain prices. The Nov. 5 sale will be held at the South Lake Tahoe branch of the El Dorado County Library, 1000 Rufus Allen Blvd, South Lake Tahoe, Calif. The book sale hours are from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Construction on Lakeview Commons nears completion
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 8:09amSouth Lake Tahoe's capital improvement project manager Jim Marino has visions.Though the new Lakeview Commons park isn't open yet, Marino can already see bands playing in front of the amphitheat...
Loomis hires former S. Tahoe official to be town manager
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:38pmAngelocci, formerly the assistant city manager and community development director for the City of South Lake Tahoe, will be paid $110000 per year, plus a $300 ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../loomis-hires...
Lakeview Commons Project Nears Completion
Submitted by Li Terrell on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 8:42pm
The City of South Lake Tahoe hosted a special project walk-through at the Lakeview Commons Project Site Thursday afternoon, and revealed the almost-finished product that the city hopes will be a jewel in the recreation crown for the area.
“It’s going to be the Sand Harbor of South Shore” said Jim Marino, Capital Improvement Manager with the City of South Lake Tahoe.
4.8 temblor felt in South Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 4:32pmIt was an earthquake, not a burglar trying to get in — is what South Lake Tahoe police dispatchers told people Wednesday night. An earthquake measuring 4.8 struck 23 miles northwest of Truckee in Plum...
Nothing common about S. Tahoe's lakeview project
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 4:32pmThe $6 million project in South Lake Tahoe on the waterfront at El Dorado Beach is winding down. A TRPA extension is allowing dirt to be moved through Friday, though that may need to be extended into ...
Medical pot backers sue feds over Calif. crackdown
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 4:26pmSAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Medical marijuana advocates in California sued the federal government Thursday in an effort to quash a recent crackdown on the state's storefront pot dispensaries, claiming gov...
CA lawmakers balance taxpayers, public employees
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 4:11pmSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday unveiled his plan for overhauling public retirement benefits requiring California lawmakers to tread carefully between protecting taxpayers an...
Judge approves Nevada's new political boundaries
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 3:58pmCarson City District Judge James Todd Russell approved a set of maps outlining Nevada's new political boundaries today, making only modest changes to the lines drawn by a panel of three court-appoi...
South Lake Tahoe reports on pot grow investigation progress
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 3:57pm
By the City of South Lake Tahoe
In the first month of the City of South Lake Tahoe’s online Report a Grow program, the City has successfully investigated residential marijuana growing operations.
Tahoe RCD gains funding to continue invasive species protection
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 3:29pm
By Peter Brumis
The Truckee River Fund has awarded $267,267 to the Tahoe Resource Conservation District to protect Truckee area waterbodies from the growing threat posed by aquatic invasive species. The money will also be used for continued implementation of a mandatory watercraft inspection program and the establishment of a stakeholder collaborative to fund a long-term, sustainable aquatic invasive species prevention program for the Truckee area.
'Man v Food' host Adam Richman featured at South Lake Tahoe Food and Wine Festival
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 3:19pm
One of the culinary events of the season, the Lake Tahoe Food and Wine Festival, arrives at Harrah's and Harveys Lake Tahoe beginning Friday and lasting through Sunday.
Tahoe Transportation District blog: Prepare Before the Snow Flies
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 2:49pm
So you’re going on a road trip and you'll cross some mountain passes. But the weather forecast calls for heavy snow and high winds. If you're going to drive in a snowstorm you'll want to be smart and safe about it. In no particular order and, depending on the circumstances, here are some must items to have in your vehicle courtesy of the Tahoe Transportation District.
Proposed food labels would rate nutrition
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:23amBy Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle. WASHINGTON — In an effort to contain epidemic obesity, the Institute of Medicine on Thursday recommended ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../proposed-food-labels...
Ski swap in Tahoe City
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:23amThe 11th annual Tahoe Cross County Ski Swap is Nov. 12 form 10am to 3pm. Skate ski equipment, classic, light touring, backcountry, snowshoes, kid's sleds, ...www.laketahoenews.net/2011/10/ski-swap...
Pier dispute reaches settlement
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 8:32amKINGS BEACH, Calif. - The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and a North Shore property owner have settled a dispute over a series of environmental rule violations that stretched back to 2008.On Wednes...
Former South Tahoe student returns from Broadway to work with high school drama class
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 8:25amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - When Sebastiani "Bubba" Romagnolo was in drama class at South Tahoe High School, he put in extra effort, to say the least. Romagnolo performed in numerous plays, worki...
Former South Tahoe student returns from Broadway to work with high school drama class
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 8:25amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - When Sebastiani "Bubba" Romagnolo was in drama class at South Tahoe High School, he put in extra effort, to say the least. Romagnolo performed in numerous plays, worki...
Northern California struck by 2 earthquakes
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 7:48amTRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) - A magnitude-4.8 earthquake has shaken Northern California communities in the Sierra Nevada.The U.S. Geological Survey says in a computer generated report that the quake struc...
Incline grinds out win over Whittell
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 5:00amZEPHYR COVE, Nev. - The game was over and the Whittell Warriors began to jog off the field. Hunter Morgan lingered a bit, staring at the score board standing in the south end zone. On the opposi...
Whittell ends season against Incline
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 5:00amZEPHYR COVE, Nev. - When the depleted Warriors hopped on the bus to make the long drive across Nevada to West Wendover, things were already looking bad for them. With four guys injured, and unab...
Decline in habitat reducing number of martens in Sierra
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 12:01amThe Sagehen Experimental Forest is located in the Tahoe National Forest about 30 miles north of Lake Tahoe and is managed by the Pacific Southwest ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../decline-in-habitat-reduc...
