MontBleu has hired a general manager who is well acquainted with gaming and tourism in Northern Nevada. Tim Maland takes over the 437-room hotel with its 40,000-square-feet of casino floor at a time when all the Stateline properties are trying to figure out how to lure people to rooms and tables. Maland was president of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Maybe it has to do with operating next to a casino. Whatever the reason, a $200,000 gamble, or investment as some call it, turned into a savings of $322,000 for Embassy Suites in just seven months. David Hansen, who runs the engineering department at the South Lake Tahoe property, convinced the owner […]
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By Kathryn Reed Federal money is flowing to South Lake Tahoe for public works projects. The $3.175 million is part of the federal stimulus package that is being filtered through the state’s clean water fund. The city applied for the funds earlier this year. The stimulus money is being used to construct the Sierra Tract […]
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By Kathryn Reed Looking at the pile of trash, the students pointed to the toilet in the middle of the heap. Walking through the South Tahoe Refuse yard they came upon oil drums, cans of paint that were separated out, a chair that looked useable if a few repairs were made, and a snowblower. These […]
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By Kathryn Reed A complete accounting of how much money has been spent by the taxpayers of South Lake Tahoe per City Council direction to keep Johnny Poland from being on the police force has not been provided to Lake Tahoe News. By the end of the business day Friday, the city provided attorney Cynthia […]
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By Kathryn Reed Kids College is no more. The 11-year-old program that provided enrichment opportunities to thousands of South Shore youth through the years won’t be back in 2010. Lake Tahoe Community College axed the program because of the cost and that it says the program doesn’t fit the true mission of what a community […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe’s first city attorney, Melvin Beverly, died Oct. 29. He was 84. Flags are being flown at half-staff in his honor. Mr. Beverly’s roots on the South Shore run deep, as do his family’s. His grandfather, John E. Dunlap, was a rancher in South Lake Tahoe. Some of the Dunlap […]
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The former owners of Tahoe Tom’s gas station in South Lake Tahoe were fined $412,900 this month by the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board for failing to cleanup the site. The board said Mohammad Ahmad and the Thomas E. Erickson Trust did not comply with a Cleanup and Abatement Order (CAO) to define the […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee PLACERVILLE — The court hearing for Phillip and Nancy Garrido lasted only two minutes this morning but turned into a media circus as Jaycee Lee Dugard’s purported biological father and Garrido’s original rape victim both showed up in court. The hearing, which started 45 minutes late as attorneys met in […]
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By Angie Keil A lot has happened since Nov. 4, 2008, when almost 60 percent of South Lake Tahoe voters approved Measure G for $64.5 million. The Master Plan that was developed by a group of citizens, staff, and others between December 2007 and February 2008 outlines plans for new construction and modernization at all […]
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