Truckee Downtown Merchant Association’s 2011 design contest invites local artists to get their creative juices flowing and submit a design that captures the popular weekly summer event series. The winning design will be printed on T-shirts that will be sold throughout the summer. TDMA will accept entries through Sunday, May 15. Quickly becoming a feel-good […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit has hired professional trail and bike park designers Hilride to work with trail users to create a plan for improving the Corral Trail. The Corral Trail is a popular multi-use trail on Lake Tahoe’s South Shore that is popular with mountain bikers and open to dirt […]
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There will be a hands-on 4-wheel drive clinic on June 4 from 9am-1pm on the Twin Peaks Trail on the South Shore. Register online.
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Sun this morning, yucky weather later in the day — that’s the forecast for Friday. Here is the April 22 ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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Bike Habitat is putting on the 4th annual Tour of Carson City ride May 1. Meat at the Carson City at 9am, ride begins at 9:30. It’s a moderately paced nearly 30-mile ride. Call (775) 267.5053 for more information.
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Douglas County Community Development Department is having a workshop May 12 from 5:30-7pm to review the goals and policies of the master plan regional and community plans. The meeting is at Kahle Community Center, Stateline. More information is online.
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By Kathryn Reed Groundwater in the Angora burn area is so high it is creating impassable roads. El Dorado County public works crews don’t anticipate being able to fix the crumbling roads until mid-June at the earliest. They must wait for the water to subside to be able to dig. “The ground is saturated 4 […]
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By Marjie Lundstrom, Sacramento Bee Ticket scalping is a crass reality for the Giants, the Lakers and Lady Gaga, but here’s a wave of price-gouging you may have missed: Yosemite National Park. Campsite reservations and permits to scale Half Dome have become such hot commodities that the National Park Service is scrambling to halt the […]
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By Garry Bowen An earlier column, “Indifference a Threat to Our Existence”, written several years ago, describes the difference between environmentalism and sustainability, both as a refrain and review of our current world situation, and as a beacon to a more contemporary look at the local situation, in light of the global. It is now […]
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By Forrest Hartman, Reno Gazette-Journal Whitesnake may not be the commercial juggernaut it was in the late 1980s, but the band still has legions of fans who buy albums and line up for concert dates, and singer David Coverdale is as appreciative as anyone. “I’m sitting doing interviews with people in a year that I’m […]
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