Alpine Meadows and Homewood Mountain Resort Bond
Posted on March 17, 2008 - Filed Under Skiing & Snowboarding | Leave a Comment
A mere 13 miles separates these two divergent Lake Tahoe ski resorts, where a southern route from popular Alpine Meadows has one driving along venerable Highway 89, past tiny Tahoe City and even smaller Sunnyside, and winding up on the doorstep of Homewood Mountain Resort.
There’s certainly no confusing the two. While Alpine has always resided […]
Shorter Hibernation For Tahoe Bears
Posted on March 14, 2008 - Filed Under Wildlife | 1 Comment
Bears are a wonder to see out in the wild. In the Lake Tahoe area, local residents and vacationers will be seeing them a lot sooner than usual. The bears at Lake Tahoe are emerging from a shorter than usual hibernation. This is causing concern for wildlife experts who say the hungry bears will have trouble […]
Read More..>>An Evening of Food and Wine Tasting
Posted on March 13, 2008 - Filed Under Activities | Leave a Comment
Do you have an artistic flair? An Evening of Food and Wine Tasting is one of South Shore Lake Tahoe’s premier community fund raising events. It is sponsored by Soroptimist, and all proceeds go directly back into the community through educational scholarships, youth activity sponsorships, the South Lake Tahoe Women’s Center, plus other projects that enhance […]
Read More..>>Snowfest Ice Sculpture
Posted on March 12, 2008 - Filed Under Activities, Entertainment | Leave a Comment
Jeremiah Johnson and his team of builders have been working hard. Under deep blue skies of Lake Tahoe, they’ve been constructing an ice castle in the spirit of this year’s SnowFest.By the time they’re finished, they will have spent well over 200 hours in Kings Beach shoveling snow, carving out features, and sculpting the castle creation, which […]
Read More..>>Nevada Gambling Revenue Down
Posted on March 11, 2008 - Filed Under Casinos | 1 Comment
Gambling across all of Nevada, including Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Reno is down. The casino’s win declined primarily due to the Las Vegas casino fire, a soft economy and unusually poor weather. These reasons held the win for Nevada casinos in January to about $1.06 billion. This is down nearly five percent, compared with the same month a year […]
Read More..>>$6.7M Jackpot Playing Wheel of Fortune
Posted on March 10, 2008 - Filed Under Casinos | 1 Comment
Susan S. Kurth of Dallas won a $6,714,119 Wheel of Fortune quarter MegaJackpot at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe on Friday.
The 60-year-old homemaker was visiting Lake Tahoe with her husband.
“It’s almost as if I felt the Wheel of Fortune machine wink at me,” she said. “I heard one click, then another, and then I heard music. I […]
Horizon Casino Resort - An Elvis Favorite
Posted on March 6, 2008 - Filed Under Casinos, Hotels & Resorts | Leave a Comment
The Horizon Casino Resort hotel, formerly known as the Sahara, was once Elvis Presley’s regular Tahoe hangout. The King’s former luxury, showroom now houses the hotel’s movie theater.
The 3-Star Horizon Casino Resort is located in the middle of the action on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe and has been called Tahoe’s Best Kept Secret. […]
Fine Art Cakes is Open For Business
Posted on March 5, 2008 - Filed Under Restaurants | 1 Comment
Martha Aguirre has been baking her specialty cakes for 12 years in South Shore - Lake Tahoe casinos. She studied at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in California. Her next venture was to open her own cake business. Her time has now come.
Martha opened her dream store, Fine Art Cakes on February 23rd. Aguirre says, […]
Read More..>>2018 Winter Olympics Games Coming to Lake Tahoe?
Posted on March 4, 2008 - Filed Under Activities, Skiing & Snowboarding, Sports | 1 Comment
Summer and Winter Olympics come and go. The memories of personal achievements and world records last a lifetime. But how about the economical impact to the Olympic host city? Well the results have been mixed. Salt Lake City and Los Angeles claim it wasn’t wonderful.
Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe hosted the 1960 Winder Olympic Games. The results were quite different. The […]
Ice Skating - Tahoe Style
Posted on March 3, 2008 - Filed Under Activities, Skiing & Snowboarding | Leave a Comment
At the Olympic Ice Pavilion at Squaw Valley USA, you skate “on top of the world” with a view of Lake Tahoe. At the Yosemite Outdoor Ice Rink, Half Dome looms overhead. The Siskiyou Outdoor Ice Rink is at the base of 14,162-foot Mount Shasta.
These are the three best outdoor ice-skating rinks in Northern California, […]
