Commentary Public Sees Bullying in Truckee Airport Boardroom By Ted Lipien Truckee Tahoe Airport District Board Directors Mary Hetherington and Tom Van Berkem faced by Board President John Jones and Director James Morrison, Northstar California, February 12, 2015. Public sees bullying in Truckee Tahoe Airport boardroom, a pro-evironment airport board director said. What I saw…
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Ridgeline Reality Check By Coral Amende Well, there’s some good news and some bad news regarding the sprawling Martis Valley West project. The good news? East West Partners currently do not plan to build 112 luxury lodges in a gated community atop an undeveloped ridgeline at Lake Tahoe. The bad? The Martis Valley West project…
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Commentary By Ted Lipien JetSuite Plane at Truckee Airport. JetSuite is one of several companies offering semi-commercial plane travel to Truckee for affluent travelers who seem unconcerned about the damage private jets do to the quality of life of local residents and the environment. EcoTruckee.org Public Domain Photo by Ted Lipien Call to Scrap 2004…
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Owning It by Prudy Grimes The first time my husband and I drove over Brockway Pass and saw Lake Tahoe, tears came to our eyes. It was the most beautiful place we’d ever seen. That was ten years ago, and we live here now. We are nomadic academics, who have travelled and lived all over,…
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Eco Truckee Tahoe News and Commentary Trout Creek Pocket Park, the project to revitalize and enhance a neglected park in Truckee’s historic downtown at the corner of of Jibboom Street and Bridge Street, is “currently planned, permitted, designed and ready for construction in 2015,” according to latest Mountain Area Preservation Foundation (MAP) online and email…
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Be Creative for the Environment – Volunteer for Eco Truckee Tahoe Journalism Project EcoTruckee.org is looking for reporters, writers, poets, photographers, filmmakers, social media gurus, marketers and other creative and managerial souls to help protect the environment through eco-journalism. Email: Ted Lipien – tedlipien@gmail.com Send e-mail
Eco Truckee Tahoe Commentary Ted Lipien Neighbors meet and talk. On Tuesday, I met a Truckee woman with a small white dog near Martis Lake in the middle of the day. I was walking there to take some photos to document for EcoTruckee.org the low water levels due to California drought. She was taking herself…
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Eco Truckee Tahoe News and Commentary “Community campaign to protect iconic Lake Tahoe skyline from development needs state, national and international support,” Ted Lipien, founder of Ecotruckee.org, wrote in an op-ed in online DIGITAL JOURNAL. “As one of the signs of the times of declining appreciation for public good, Lake Tahoe and other natural landmarks…
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Eco Truckee Tahoe Commentary Ted Lipien The proposal to build 112 new multimillion-dollar luxury homes in a likely gated community at the top of the ridgeline of Lake Tahoe, one of the most iconic scenic places in North America, was clearly horrifying to dozens of Tahoe basin and other local residents who came to a…
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‘The End of Snow’ A Squaw Valley murder mystery novel by Prudy Grimes
‘The End of Snow’ A Squaw Valley murder mystery novel by Prudy Grimes Reviewed by Ted Lipien A death in Squaw Valley may mean the death of Squaw Valley, at least as we know it now. Prudy Grimes’ debut full-length mystery novel, “The End of Snow,” is subtitled “Murder in Squaw Valley: A Laura Bailey…
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