If you like “beachy/campfire” music, come and join the Tahoe Aunties Ukulele Band every Wednesday from 5:30-6:30pm at the platform at Regan Beach in South Lake Tahoe. Sing-a-long, bring your instrument, join the fun.
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Volunteer for the 13th annual Tahoe Forest Stewardship Day on Sept. 11 at North Tahoe Regional Park. Join hundreds of volunteers to help restore forest ecosystems, alpine meadows, creeks and streams, and improve water quality. Learn about forest and fire ecology, defensible space, wildlife, invasive species, and hydrology. Volunteers and team leaders are needed. To […]
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Music, art, dance and poetry unite in the Sierra Nevada at 6,200 feet in the seventh annual inspiring art hike produced by Trails and Vistas on Sept. 11-12 at Squaw Valley. Audience members, led by an experienced guide, hike in small groups pausing at 10 art venues, each set against the striking backdrop of towering […]
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Janill Gilbert of South Lake Tahoe is headed to Sample the Sierra on Aug. 21. She won Lake Tahoe News’ contest to define what Sample the Sierra means. This is her winning haiku: Wine, Herb, Cheese Sublime. Ski Run Culture Tastes Divine Sated Appetite The inaugural Sample the Sierra is a cooperative effort to increase […]
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Taj Mahal Trio has been added as support for the Bob Dylan concert on Aug. 22 at Harveys Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena. The Dough Rollers open the show. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and apeconcerts.com. Composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Taj Mahal is one of the most prominent and influential figures in […]
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By Jack Chang, Sacramento Bee This year, the long road to the governor’s office runs through the high desert reservation of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. It also stops at the reservations – and casinos – of the Sycuan and Viejas bands of the Kumeyaay Nation east of San Diego. In fact, the campaign […]
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By Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, Newsweek Back in 1958, Ted Schwarzrock was an 8-year-old third grader when he became one of the “Torrance kids,” a group of nearly 400 Minneapolis children who completed a series of creativity tasks newly designed by professor E. Paul Torrance. Schwarzrock still vividly remembers the moment when a psychologist […]
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The Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe Golf Tournament is set for Oct. 11 at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course. The entire $195 entry fee goes directly to the Boys & Girls Club to continue its work with local children. Last year the BGCLT raised more than $30,000 for local children and this year’s goal […]
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By Chelsea Phua, Sacramento Bee Moments before stepping inside an El Dorado Hills coffee shop, Vern Pierson pecked away at his BlackBerry. He was sending an e-mail message to his secretary about the caseload handled by a prosecutor. It was only 8:30am, and Pierson, El Dorado County’s district attorney, already had his plate full. He […]
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Charles Goldman will be the guest speaker on Aug. 18 at noon during Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe’s lunch meeting at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe. Goldman, a world renowned limnologist and founder of the UC Davis Tahoe Research Group, hosted the inaugural Lake Tahoe Environmental Summit in 1997 with then President Bill Clinton and Vice […]
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