When students walk into Lake Tahoe School, they are greeted with a firm handshake by Head of School Ruth Glass—unless, of course, it’s Thumbs Up Thursday or High Fives Friday. A private institution nestled in a forested section of Incline Village, Lake Tahoe School (LTS)...
Terren Gomez unlocks the faded red door to his Eloise Avenue workshop. Inside, the smell of sawdust, varnish and wood glue drifts under yellow fluorescent lights. A 10-foot slab of freshly glued black walnut lies on one surface, clamps squeezing drops of adhesive from its...
A two-year effort to agree on new regulations guiding shoreline activities around Lake Tahoe—a thorny issue that has eluded success over the years and which is given added urgency by the impacts of drought and climate change—is now underway. Government agencies, lakeside property owners, environmentalists...
The lot at 3530 South Lake Tahoe Boulevard seemed perfect for an assisted living facility, says Lynn Humphries, a senior living and placement consultant based in the Sacramento Valley. Listed on the online real estate market LoopNet for $2.5 million, it was the site of...
The controversial approval of a unique conservation/development project has elicited pushback from environmental groups, some of which helped forge the initial approach. While the Martis Valley West project was approved by a county board, a lawsuit filed by one of the original architects of the...
The Pacific Ocean can be temperamental. One year the waters along the equator warm rapidly, bringing trade winds to a halt, and the next year waters in the western Pacific warm so disproportionately that a massive difference in pressure sets up between its eastern and...
When most people think of Antarctica, they think of a pristine, untouched landscape of snow and ice. But those who have passed through King George Island know a starkly different reality exists—a landscape littered with rusting vehicles, deteriorating fuel tanks and heaps of scrap metal. ...
Incline Village’s Diamond Peak Ski Resort celebrates its golden anniversary this winter. To commemorate 50 years of operations, the resort is asking guests—past and present—to share stories, photos and even those old Rothko-channeling 1980s ski suits. It’s all part of a season-long celebration of this...
“I have never been here before,” the keynote speaker says to an eager audience braving the relentless sun of a seasonably hot afternoon in South Lake Tahoe. “It’s not like I didn’t want to come. Nobody invited me.” The audience laughs in unison. The...
David Kelly was supposed to die at age 6. “My mother took me to the hospital in 1949. I got the last rights and the whole bit, and they put me on the iron lung, and three years later I was out of the iron...