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Slow food movement dinner in Truckee

Dragonfly Restaurant and Sushi Bar is partnering with Slow Food Lake Tahoe to host a twist on the community supported agriculture box. It’s slated for March 2 at 6pm in downtown Truckee. Attendees will get to solve the mysteries contained in CSA veggie boxes by visiting food demo stations, trying their hand at rolling rice […]

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Trek to top of Angora Ridge provides stunning views

By Kathryn Reed What a difference a week makes. Last Sunday the trek to Angora Ridge was all about the claws on our snowshoes. Today it would likely be about making first tracks or hoping a snowmobiler got there first. It’s a climb, no doubt about that. But the views – oh, they are worth […]

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Competing car auctions tied to Hot August Nights

By Frank X. Mullen Jr., Reno Gazette-Journal There are now two separate classic car auctions scheduled in August in conjunction with the Hot August Nights event. Silver Auctions, which has handled the event’s auction for 21 years, will hold an auction the first week of August in the Truckee Meadows, when Hot August Nights is […]

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Weather Service releases snow totals for Tahoe area

The National Weather Service in Reno released snow totals at 11:30am Saturday for the latest storm. Here are some of those numbers for the past 24 hours: • Alpine Meadows — 20 inches • Carson City — 5 inches • Donner Summit — 20 inches • Gardnerville — 13 inches • Heavenly Valley — 30 […]

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Trash update: STR not able to service all routes

South Tahoe Refuse has pulled some of its trucks from routes because the roads were not plowed and the garbage trucks were getting stuck. The South Shore trash officials say to pull cans back inside and put them back out on the regular trash day next week.

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No injuries in train collision on Donner Summit

By News 10 DONNER SUMMIT — Two trains crashed at Donner Summit Friday aboout 3:30pm because of bad weather. An Amtrak train from Chicago, headed to Emeryville, was hit from behind by a Union Pacific train, said Amtrak’s Vernae Graham. Read the whole story

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Bahrke 24th in aerials in Belarus

By Freddy Perryman, U.S. Ski Team MINSK, Belarus -– Last season’s Rookie of the Year Ashley Caldwell of Charleston, S.C., rebounded from her injury last week to finish second in the aerials World Cup Saturday in Minsk. It was the second podium of her young career. Hometown hero Anton Kushnir of Belarus won the men’s […]

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Ski report: Another foot and then some

All this epic snow and so many locals will be turned away because of blackout dates on season passes. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.

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Storm in Lake Tahoe breaking up

It’s going to be over this morning. The winter storm warning, that is, not the snow falling from the sky. With the National Weather Service in Reno lifting the warning as of 9am, it means the brunt of the storm has passed. Still, though, meteorologists are saying there is an 80 percent chance of snow […]

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Riding in a plow demonstrates the difficulty of not berming

By Kathryn Reed I’m a complainer. And I admitted this trait to a plow driver. And then to his boss. They are used to my type. I hate the berm. I don’t see why they have to happen. Must be a lazy plow driver is my thinking. That was my philosophy before spending a couple […]

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