Tag: Kyra Mattson
Locked In: Placer and Truckee Offer Cash for Local Home Purchases
To ensure some housing is exclusively reserved for the local workforce, Placer County and Truckee deed restriction programs offer a cash incentive to help with the purchase of homes.
What Is Home?
Reporter Kyra Mattson contemplates the notion of home and reflects on the challenges she faced during her recent housing search.
Beautiful Battle
Michelle Gordon is a devoted caregiver and a natural entrepreneur. Her story is one of determination and unwavering love.
No Consolidation Without Community Representation
Washoe County School District is proposing to close Incline Middle School and consolidate schools. Incline Village community members are fighting back.
Bridging Communities; Breaking Down Walls
Xochitl Perez grew up in North Lake Tahoe after immigrating to the U.S. from Mexico as a toddler. She now works to bridge the gaps between Mexican and North American cultures locally through acceptance, appreciation, communication, and compassion.
Who Says You Can’t Go Home?
Moonshine Ink reporter Kyra Mattson reflects on the difference between life in Tahoe as a kid and as an adult, and what it’s like to struggle to find housing in the town where she grew up.
Challenge the Inevitability of Snarled Traffic
“It’s a heart-hurt to view idling vehicles lined up as far as the eye can see,” our editors say collectively in this month’s group editorial. “There is a carrying capacity inherent for any system and clearly we are exceeding ours here.”
Cookie Week
Cookie week at North Tahoe High School is a joy-filled week when culinary students bake more than 8,000 cookies for a cookie exchange that happens just before winter break.
A Year in the Ink
2022 has been a year of celebration, mountain culture, tragic loss, fire threats, housing crisis, and so much more. See the stories of 2022 in Year in the Ink.
Zero Trash Tahoe
Carolyn Usinger has made it her mission to make Tahoe a more beautiful place by picking up litter. When she was convicted of misdemeanors for illegally disposing the litter into the Nevada Department of Transportation’ empty dumpster, she felt defeated. The community’s support inspired her to keep going and she is working to develop a program called Zero Trash Tahoe.