Kingsbury Grade in 1951 was barely one lane wide and entirely unpaved, with treacherous turns. It was closed in winter. Kingsbury Grade on the Carson Valley side was paved and mostly rerouted by the early 1970s. — Bill Kingman
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The South Lake Tahoe Library is starting a Lego Robotics Club where children ages 10-14 can build and program robots. This program will run for five sessions. Each session will build from the previous one so its important to attend all of them. They will be March 19, March 26, April 9, April 16 and April 30 from […]
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For the next two weeks representatives from a professional survey research company will be conducting travel surveys with visitors and residents at several recreational and commercial locations throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin. Results from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s travel mode survey will be used to track the success of and help plan multi-modal travel options […]
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· Jessica Perasso and Dana Dose will be giving a free talk about managing diabetes on March 9 from 6-7pm in the board room at Lake Tahoe Community College. · Four pilots deliberately had their planes’ tires skimming Lake Tahoe on Feb. 11 in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the longest […]
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El Dorado County on Feb. 21 is closing both directions of Highway 50 between El Dorado Hills Boulevard and Bass Lake Road, as well as the Latrobe Road on-ramp to eastbound Highway 50, the Bass Lake Road on-ramp to westbound Highway 50, and White Rock Road between Valley View Parkway and Entrada Circle. These closures are for blasting operations […]
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Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce’s 4th annual Community Breakfast is Feb. 25. Chamber officials will recap accomplishments from 2015 and give insight into how organizational goals have changed since receiving feedback from the member survey. The survey found that respondents believed the top three challenges facing business in South Lake Tahoe are employment/labor […]
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The Food Bank of El Dorado County needs volunteers on Feb. 24 from 9:30-11:30am in South Lake Tahoe to help distribute food from the mobile food pantry. Volunteers will assist in handing out food and signing people in. For more info, call 530.621.9950 or email volunteer@foodbankedc.org. Food will be available from 10-11am at the American Legion Hall, […]
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The Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team is partnering with sixth-graders at Tahoe Expedition Academy to put on a community open house about prescribed fire. At the Feb. 24 open house, people may learn more about the role prescribed fire plays in improving forest health and reducing wildfire risk for Lake Tahoe communities. Since 2008, agencies […]
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· Truckee Police Department’s 2015 annual report is available . · Drones weighing more than 0.55 pounds and less than 55 pounds must be registered by Feb. 19. More information is available online. The $5 permits are valid for three years. · NBC Sports will air a one-hour show March 27 at noon featuring the […]
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In recent weeks, Liberty Utilities’ has received calls from customers indicating they received a phone call from someone posing as a collections representative and threatening to shut off power if payment was not made within a specified period of time. Sometimes the caller has specific customer information such as last payment amount. Liberty is unaware of how this […]
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