To the publisher, The South Lake Tahoe Earth Day Committee would like to thank you for your contribution to this year’s South Tahoe Day Festival held on April 16 at the Bijou Community Park. Earth Day was a great success this year with an excellent turnout from our Lake Tahoe community, great variety of local […]
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• Harrah’s Lake Tahoe and Harveys are having a job fair April 29 from noon-4pm for people looking for summer jobs. • Now that the partnership of Feldman Shaw & McLaughlin LLP no longer practices law, Leslie Shaw continues to practice family law under the new firm name of The Law Office of Leslie J. […]
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April marks the 20-year anniversary Creative Concepts Media + Marketing. The firm established by Laura Partridge is a boutique media buying agency has offices in Truckee and Reno that provide and implement strategic advertising plans. Twenty years ago, Creative Concepts began when Partridge left the world of radio to launch the agency. Her understanding of […]
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By Siobhan McAndrew, Reno Gazette-Journal For years, Wendy Avansino of Reno paid $75 for her favorite face cream at her beauty salon. “I’d look for other products with the same ingredient — alpha hydroxy — at the grocery store or Wal-Mart but none of them ever compared,” Avansino said. “The amount of alpha hydroxy was […]
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The Tahoe Resource Conservation District will again manage the Truckee Area Watercraft Inspection Program for 2011. Entering its second season, Truckee area inspections and boater education on aquatic invasive species will take place at Donner Lake and Boca, Prosser, and Stampede reservoirs from April 30 through Sept. 30. Current funding for Truckee Area watercraft inspections […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, working with the California Tahoe Conservancy, is proposing to restore the Sunset Stables Reach of the Upper Truckee River. The project would replace the existing channel with one that has the width, depth and curves of a more naturally functioning river. The anticipated result would be […]
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By Kathryn Reed China is huge – and not just in size and population. Since 2004, Nevada has been capitalizing on the desire of Chinese nationals to travel to the United States. And this month, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., was in China to discuss trade and human rights issues. Robert Young was just appointed Nevada’s […]
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Dragonfly Restaurant will host the Arts for the Schools’ 6th Annual Student Art Show May 5 from 4-6pm. For those who choose to stay for dinner, Dragonfly will offer half-off all entrees. This year’s show titled “Artists in Bloom” will showcase more than 400 pieces of Tahoe Truckee children’s artwork. Art pieces were selected from […]
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Classic boats from a classic era. That’s what guests will discover at the 2011 South Tahoe Wooden Boat Classic July 29-30 at the Tahoe Keys Marina & Yacht Club. The STWBC is one of the West’s largest classic boat shows, and this year the headliner will be White Smoke which was originally delivered to South […]
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Dear City Council members, What can be done to solve the medical marijuana garden “crisis”? Do we threaten sick people with home invasions and huge fines, or do we place the responsibility where it legally belongs? It is not the job of the City Council to serve as property managers. That is the legal responsibility […]
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