By Cortney Moore After a long, cool spring a sure sign that warmer weather is on its way has appeared. The lilacs are blooming. Plump buds pop open in clusters of purple blossoms and unleash a fragrance that is heavenly. Lilacs are a classic landscape shrub. As settlers made their way west, they often planted […]
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The Avoid the 6 El Dorado County DUI Task Force will be out in full force during the 4th of July holiday weekend, cracking down on impaired drivers with an aggressive DUI enforcement blitz. “Driving while drunk isn’t worth the tremendous risk. No matter your age, if you’ve had too much holiday spirit, you’d better […]
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The next meeting of the Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee will be at South Tahoe High School, CAT Academy, Room 202 on June 30 at 6pm. This is a public meeting, which will include a tour of the Stadium View building that is slated for completion by Aug. 1.
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On July 8 from 5:30-6:30pm at the Tahoe Rim Trail Association’s office, 948 Incline Way, Incline Village learn how to become a volunteer for the TRTA. As a volunteer for the Tahoe Rim Trail Association, you will have the opportunity to meet people, learn skills, get outdoors and make a difference. If you are interested […]
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By Sacramento Bee The images won’t appear in any California State Parks brochure. MacKerricher State Park: Fifty elementary-school kids arrive for their annual end-of-year camping trip, only to find the drinking water contaminated. Mount Tamalpais: A trail near the visitors center greets disabled visitors and families with a 12- to 50-foot sheer drop-off – and […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s hard not to come across several dogs when walking along Trout Creek behind Lake Tahoe Community College. It’s a favorite urban walk, as some call it, for two-legged and four-legged animals on the South Shore. Plenty of opportunities abound for access to the cold water — either for a quick swim […]
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The Cash Only Band is coming to the South Shore’s historic Boathouse Theatre on July 1 at 7:30pm. Founded by front man guitarist Davin Kangas in 2002, the Cash Only Band started out as a Johnny Cash Tribute band and is a musical interpretation, not an impersonation. Other band members include South Lake Tahoe’s Nate […]
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Sausalito-based LUNA Sport, a women’s cycling and athletic clothing company, anis having all-women’s downhill mountain biking clinic on Aug. 21 from 10am-5pm at Northstar-at-Tahoe. Go to www.lunasportgear.com or email dmac@lunasportgear.com for more information.
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Publisher’s note: Read the Lifestyle section for details about the Angora home tour. By Susan Wood A slight breeze and blue sky marked a stark contrast in the Upper Truckee region this June, three years and two days after South Lake Tahoe’s Angora Fire that in a wind-whipped inferno burned 254 homes, displaced hundreds and […]
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Help is available for Lake Tahoe Basin residents to make their homes and families safer in the event of wildfire. Free home inspections, tree removal permits and 50 percent rebates – up to $1,000 – for vegetation management such as tree removal are available in most Lake Tahoe communities. A partnership of Tahoe Bbsin agencies […]
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