By Susan Wood As a new year and decade begin, I reflect on a time when South Lake Tahoe had reason to celebrate. If only for a moment, no unfinished projects, crumbling sidewalks, lost tourism promotion opportunities or staggering unemployment figures cloud my mind. One year ago today, the South Shore was placed on the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Every year the South Lake Tahoe Parks and Recreation Department writes checks for about $140,000 to cover its utility bills. That’s about to be cut by 40 percent. With the approval this month by the City Council to spend $797,461 to retrofit the city’s swim complex that was built in 1975, the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Some police officers get the worst assignments – having to crawl under houses, being the first one in a building where a potential bad guy is hiding – and then having to always ride in the back seat. And then when you’re the one who schools always request as the special guest, […]
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By Susan Wood and Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY — Medals won decades ago, patches that show little wear despite being 50 years old, ski bibs from the eighth Winter Olympiad — they were all in vogue Friday night at the Nordic Legends Dinner. Some of these athletes, groomers, patrollers and other participants from the 1960 […]
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By Kathryn Reed It was a universal look of disbelief and bewilderment upon the faces of the Lake Tahoe Unified School District board members as they learned $850,000 is likely going to be taken away by the state in the 2010-11 fiscal year. Chief Financial Officer Deb Yates delivered the news about Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s […]
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Publisher’s note: The following was written for Lake Tahoe News in 1960. LTN was a weekly print publication at the time owned by Flip Brandi. Del Wright, the writer, is better known to those on the South Shore as Del Laine. By Del Wright It’s going to take me years to sort out all my […]
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Updated Jan. 16 5:40pm: The meeting with the city staff and STPUD board has been moved to Feb. 18. By Kathryn Reed To some it might like look like a shell game. Or maybe it’s robbing Peter to pay Paul. Or maybe it’s all on the up and up. The problem with projected redevelopment areas […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sam Borges, the man who built Borges Sleigh Rides, died Jan. 11, 2010. He was 85. Mr. Borges died peacefully with his family beside him. Born in Albany, N.Y., on Jan. 21, 1924, Mr. Borges was industrious from an early age. He moved with his mother and younger sister to California when […]
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By Kathryn Reed When Martin Hewlett walks into the City Council chambers this morning he won’t be relegated to the back of the room. He will be at the big table at the front of the room. Hewlett is acting police chief for South Lake Tahoe for the indefinite future. His first day on the […]
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By Kathryn Reed “I was too naïve to understand it was special,†Del Laine says. “I was excited to be there. The internationality of it.†Now, 50 years later, Laine appreciates the work she did as a journalist covering the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley from Feb. 18-28, 1960. She was 29 years old, with […]
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