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STATA's bumblings seeping out in court documents
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 7:37pmSouth Tahoe Area Transit Authority's board voted to file for bankruptcy in August 2010. MV filed a lawsuit a couple months before that after the STATA board severed the transit operator's agre...
Snippets about Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 7:37pmPosted by admin in Grab Bag on October 26th, 2011 | no responses. hyatt • Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe expects its $20 million renovation of its guestrooms, Sierra Café and the Spa Terrace Conference Cent...
Tahoe 21st Century Education Series: Author Bernie Trilling to Speak
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 6:32pmBy Heather Segale
Community educators are joining forces to bring another 21st Century Education Speakers Series to the Lake Tahoe Basin. This year’s series kicks-off with author Bernie Trilling on Tuesday, November 8th from 6:30 – 9:00 pm at Sierra Nevada College in the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences.
Heavenly, Northstar begin blowing snow on runs
Submitted by Sam Bauman on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 5:24pmHeavenly Mountain Resort and Northstar California Resort began making snow Tuesday night, a sure sign that winter is upon us and sweet music to the ears of skiers and snowboarders everywhere.
Nevada tourism director to promote state through Facebook, Twitter
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 5:04pmClaudia Vecchio has four weeks to cram for a big test. The newly appointed director of the Nevada Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs — the revamped Nevada Tourism Commission — will deliver opening remarks for the two-day Governor’s Conference on Tourism beginning Nov. 29. With a shrinking budget that not only is dwarfed by other state departments but by state tourism boards across the West, Vecchio has her eyes on the low-cost 21st century version of over-the-fence chitchat with friends and neighbors — social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
Go here for the Las Vegas Sun story by Richard N. Velotta.
Nevada Legislative panel approves annual bear hunt
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 3:58pmCARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Black bears will remain in the crosshairs of Nevada hunters after a legislative panel agreed Wednesday to make regulations authorizing an annual hunt permanent, despite obj...
Oregon slaying suspect arrested in Placerville
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 3:40pmGRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Police have arrested a relative of the couple shot dead at their home in the Southern Oregon community Merlin.Josephine County sheriff's deputies say 58-year-old Gary Ly...
The truth about Pop Fiction: it's a funky good time
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:54pmWhether you are bringing "Jessie's Girl," "Jack and Diane" or the "Dancing Queen" to the 33rd annual Freakers Ball this Saturday, Oct. 29, the band Pop Fiction will have the music to make eveCop...
Game wants to inspire the next Barack Obama
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:49pmRyan JohnsonGame had no shortage of trials and tribulations growing up, including getting shot multiple times. During his recovery, he was able to study the art of rapping and hip-hop, which beg...
The Improv welcomes Cotter to Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:45pmJust like last week, Harveys' Improv has a debut appearance. I've been waiting for Tom Cotter to get up here and still can't believe it's taken more than 10 years to get him to play our little r...
When You've Seen One, You've Only Just Begun
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:40pmThe 22nd screen adaptation of "The Three Musketeers" is a tepid rendition of the Alexander Dumas 1844 classic.The film is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, who seeks another vehicle to star his 37...
Former Blue Turtle answers call to rock with Dad's LPs
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:37pmJay Seals has found an alternative to Blue Turtle Seduction.He is playing in an alternative rock-based band. Dad's LPs performs free on Thursday at a familiar Blue Turtle haunt, the Divided Sky....
Todd Clouser's tasteful jazz is hardly dinner music
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:30pmTodd Clouser is not limited by geographic or musical borders.A native of Minnesota, he has lived in Mexico for five years, and while Clouser can be considered a jazz guitarist, he's clearly influen...
We Can Challenge Week 6: Stretch for 10 minutes per day
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 10:00amFlexibility is a commonly overlooked part of your child's fitness and health. While speed, strength, and endurance can be more easily shown or practiced flexibility is a little less obvious. One co...
Douglas libraries closed for Nevada Day
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 9:59amThe Douglas County Public libraries in Minden and Zephyr Cove will be closed from Oct. 27 through Oct. 29 for leave without pay and the Nevada Day holiday.The Minden Library will re-open at 10 a.m....
KUDOS & KINDNESS: Thanks to Safeway for books
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 9:54amThe Sierra House Elementary Parent Teacher Association would like to give a huge thank you to Safeway for donating all the fabulous, hard bound books to our school! The kids loved having something ...
Local restaurants support council for the disabled's anniversary
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 9:51amIn celebration of Tahoe Area Coordinating Council for the Disabled's 30 year anniversary, five different local restaurants offered to help increase the council's funding base to make sure their imp...
Tough facts about breast cancer
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 9:47am"You have breast cancer."More than 260,000 American women heard those words in 2010, and nearly 40,000 of them did not survive the year. But a diagnosis of breast cancer does not have to be a death...
City offers prescription drug take back
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 9:17amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - South Lake Tahoe Police Department in conjunction with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will give the public a chance to safely dispose of unused and unwanted pre...
Outdoors with Don Q: Fishing for Mackinaw at Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Don Quilici on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 8:50am
On Wednesday morning Oct. 19, Elaine and I went fishing at Lake Tahoe for Mackinaw lake trout with our longtime good friend and sport fishing guide, Gene St. Denis of Blue Ribbon Charters outfitted South Lake Tahoe, Calif.
“Gino” has fished Tahoe for some thirty years (the last 13 years as a fishing guide) and is one of the top, if not the top, guides at that lake.
Terror in Tahoe turns campground into haunted attraction
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 7:43amIt's not often people get a chance to do charity work by hacking faux bodies to pieces.Terror in Tahoe is taking full advantage of the Halloween opportunity."At night, it's really ghoulish," sai...
Terror in Tahoe turns campground into haunted attraction
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 7:43amIt's not often people get a chance to do charity work by hacking faux bodies to pieces.Terror in Tahoe is taking full advantage of the Halloween opportunity."At night, it's really ghoulish," sai...
Opinion: Denial will not heal what ails South Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 6:43amTo the community,. I watched and listened to Mayor Hal Cole's state of the city speech. There are two parts to any speech, substance and tone. On substance ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../opinion-den...
Momentum to eliminate social promotion in LTUSD
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 6:43amIt's going to get tougher to be passed from one grade to the next in Lake Tahoe Unified School District without knowing the material. ltusd The board on Tuesday ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../moment...
STATA's bumblings seeping out in court documents
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 6:43amSouth Tahoe Area Transit Authority's board voted to file for bankruptcy in August 2010. MV filed a lawsuit a couple months before that after the STATA board ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../statas-bum...
Snippets about Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:27amHyatt Regency Lake Tahoe expects its $20 million renovation of its guestrooms Sierra Café and the Spa Terrace Conference Center to be done by the end of ...www.laketahoenews.net/2011/.../snippets-abou...
Holiday Tree permits go on sale in the Lake Tahoe Basin
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 12:50amBy Lisa Herron
UPDATED: The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU) will begin the sale of holiday tree permits on Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. Permits cost $10 each (cash or check only, no credit cards) with a limit of two permits per family, valid for cutting on or before Dec. 25, 2011. Permit holders may choose from a variety of pine, fir or cedar in designated cutting areas and must abide by specific permit conditions for proper and responsible collection.
Permits will be available at two locations:
Fishing report through Nov. 2
Submitted by Don Quilici on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:56pmHere is the fishing report for the week of Oct. 26 to Nov. 2. This report covers rivers, streams and lakes in Nevada, the Sierra, Northern California and Southern Oregon.
Italian wine making on a small scale
Submitted by Don Quilici on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:17pm
On Saturday, Oct. 1, four of us (Bob and Lorraine Scholes of Dayton, Nev. and Elaine and I had the opportunity to visit a small vineyard called Corte de Valle in the Tuscany Region of Northern Italy.
It is one of a number of Bed & Breakfast vineyards (large and small) that are located along the Chianti Road between Siena and Florence.
We saw their small sign as we drove past, and on the spur of the moment, decided to turn around and visit there. It was a great decision.
Food swap in Truckee
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 7:18pmTruckee River Winery with Slow Food Lake Tahoe is hosting a food swap Oct. 30 from 2-4pm. A food swap is where your homemade, homegrown, and foraged creations become your own personal currency for use...
South Tahoe woman pleads guilty to wire fraud
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 4:56pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - A South Lake Tahoe investment broker has pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud for embezzling about $25,000 from investors, according to a Friday statement from ...
Pier owner challenges TRPA findings
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 4:07pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The owner of a lakefront property that has attracted Tahoe Regional Planning Agency attention for allegedly violating Lake Tahoe's strict environmental rules is challe...
Overhaul of Lake Tahoe planning ordinances made easy
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 3:30pmBy the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
As the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency prepares to reorganize and reformat its code of ordinances to make it more user-friendly, an equally user-friendly summary of the proposed edits and procedural changes has been prepared and is available to offer greater clarity to the public, according to the Agency.
Holiday tree permits go on sale in the Lake Tahoe Basin
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 3:01pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will begin the sale of holiday tree permits on Nov. 7.Permits cost $10 each (cash or check only, no credit cards)...
OBITUARY: Mary Lee Wilson
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 1:15pm30 year South Lake Tahoe resident Mary Lee Wilson passed away peacefully on October 14, 2011 in Chandler AZ. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, George and Alma Wilson of Annapolis M...
Dogs bite people on both sides of El Dorado County
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:50pmEl Dorado County Animal Services officials are searching for dogs that bit people in two separate incidents, one in South Lake Tahoe and the other in Grizzly ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../dogs-bite-peo...
Law gives schools teeth to go after bullies
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:50pmBy Carolyn Jones, San Francisco Chronicle. Seth Walsh was a typical 13-year- old. He loved dogs and riding his bike, listening to music, and hanging out with ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../law-gives-sch...
Meters getting little credit for less water consumption
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:50pmBy Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee. As communities around the Sacramento region continue to install water meters, a number of local officials say the devices are ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../meters-gettin...
Ex-Placerville mayor faces more criminal charges
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:50pmBy Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee. Former Placerville Mayor David Machado's legal woes increased Monday. A grand jury indictment unsealed in El Dorado ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../ex-placerville-mayo...
Opinion: Shameful attack on reproductive rights
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:50pmPublisher's note: This editorial is from the Oct. 18, 2011, San Francisco Chronicle. Among the budget targets of House Republicans, one stands out as especially ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../opinio...
Grants to help with Tahoe area water issues
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:50pmMore snow, cleanups along the Truckee River and projects to fight quagga mussels have been approved to help keep the Truckee River, Lake Tahoe and other ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../grants-to-help-wit...
Tahoe Rim Trail celebrating 30 years
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:50pmTahoe Rim Trail Association's 30th anniversary annual meeting celebration is Nov. 5 at the North Tahoe Event Center in Kings Beach. The event includes an ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../tahoe-rim-tra...
Voters with housing woes giving up on politicians
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:00pmMESA, Ariz. (AP) - Like just about everyone in the Phoenix area, Jen Pollock has lost several neighbors to foreclosure and short sales. And, like hundreds of thousands of others in Arizona, Pollock...
Obama offers mortgage relief on Western trip
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:40amLAS VEGAS (AP) - President Barack Obama offered mortgage relief on Monday to hundreds of thousands of Americans, his latest attempt to ease the economic and political fallout of a housing crisis th...
Jury to be picked for Reno Walmart shooting trial
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:19amRENO, Nev. (AP) - Jury selection is due to start Reno for the trial of a former employee accused of opening fire inside a Walmart store, wounding three supervisors almost a year ago.The Reno Gazett...
Sue Morrow: Working though the fallout of IHOP
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:59amCARSON CITY, Nev. - The horrific Sept. 6 shooting at Carson City's IHOP in which five people, including the assailant, died and and 11 others were wounded, continues to attract media attention. But...
Amgen bicycle race will not include Yosemite leg
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:58amFRESNO, Calif. (AP) - The Amgen bicycle race through California set for next year won't be including a dramatic backdrop of Yosemite National Park's famous granite icons.National Park Service offic...
Amgen bicycle race will not include Yosemite leg
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:58amFRESNO, Calif. (AP) - The Amgen bicycle race through California set for next year won't be including a dramatic backdrop of Yosemite National Park's famous granite icons.National Park Service offic...
Rand Corp. retracts study on pot clinic closings
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:57amSANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - A nonprofit think tank on Monday retracted a widely reported study that linked last year's closing of hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles to a rise...
Forest Service seeks input on fallen sequoias
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:55amFRESNO, Calif. (AP) - If a tree falls in the woods, nobody really cares. But when two of California's 1,500-year-old giant sequoia trees fell across a popular hiking trail inside a national monumen...
