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Posted March 7, 2012 -

Little Feat

Little Feat will be at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe on April 14 at 7:30pm. Guests must be 21 to attend. Cost is $35. For more information, call 800.786.8208.

Posted March 7, 2012 -

UC Davis’s Tahoe Environmental Research Center in partnership with Lake Tahoe School and Tahoe Expedition Academy will host the seventh annual Science Expo this month. The Science Expo features interactive experiments and demonstrations for children ages 6 to 12 and their families. The Science Expo is open to the general public on March 14 from […]

Posted March 7, 2012 -

Snippets about Lake Tahoe

• Stardust Lodge will be before the South Lake Tahoe Planning Commission on March 8 at 3pm at Lake Tahoe Airport requesting its sign be grandfathered in under the “unique sign” designation. • Tracy Rhine, 39, of El Dorado has been appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown as deputy director of Legislative and Policy Review for […]

Posted March 7, 2012 -

Tahoe transportation gurus keep trying to connect the lake

By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Ten ideas to provide year-round transportation linking the North and South shores have been whittled to three, with two involving ferry service and one a bus route. Advocates believe a ferry on Lake Tahoe could provide 3,500 daily boardings, operate eight hours a day during the height of summer, take […]

Posted March 7, 2012 -

California lawmakers have no problem saying yes to gifts

By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee Finally some good news for California lawmakers who have seen their pay and approval rating fall in recent years: Special-interest perks are up. Lawmakers and constitutional officers accepted more than $750,000 in food, travel or other gifts last year, shattering the roughly $520,000 received the prior year, according to financial […]

Posted March 7, 2012 -

How would you make Lake Tahoe’s lousy public transit system better?

Posted March 7, 2012 -

Truckee Elementary taking green to a new level

Truckee Elementary is going green. Designated as the flagship school to lead the greening of the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District, the students and staff of Truckee Elementary will be pioneering a path toward an environmentally sustainable future for the entire district. During the next few years, Truckee Elementary will undergo a green transformation: in […]

Posted March 7, 2012 -

Opinion: California students have a point with their protests

By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee The thousands of college students who marched on the Capitol on Monday to protest rising fees and decreasing state support had a point: Higher education has taken a disproportionately heavy drubbing in recent years as politicians attempted – and largely failed – to balance the state budget. The Legislature’s budget […]

Posted March 6, 2012 -

S. Tahoe production company needs actors for webisode

Tahoe Production House is having a casting call for a five episode web series to be aired in Lake Tahoe, Carson City, Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. This is a comedic love story. The webisode has been sold to major distributors. It will shot HD and distributed worldwide. The plot: a city couple […]

Posted March 6, 2012 -

Meeting about North Shore biomass facility

Placer County has proposed developing a biomass power generation facility near the Eastern Regional Material Recovery Facility at Cabin Creek. The proposed biomass power generation facility would be located on county-owned land off Highway 89 between Squaw Valley and Truckee. A meeting to discuss the project is set for March 13 from 9am-1pm at 305 […]