The El Dorado County Senior Nutrition Program is looking for volunteers to deliver meals weekdays from 10:30am-noon to homebound seniors in the South Lake Tahoe area. For many homebound seniors, the daily personal contact is as vital as the meal. Volunteers who are not available for a weekly commitment may serve as back-up drivers. Mileage […]
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Virginia City is looking for participants in what it expects to be the largest parade in the state on Nevada’s actual birthday, Oct. 31. There is no fee for towns, organizations, counties, groups, schools and bands to join the 5:30pm parade and the official celebration. Applications are available online. Due to the late start time, […]
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Douglas County is hosting the Western Nevada College “Always Lost: A Meditation on War” arts and humanities exhibition as part of a special Nevada Sesquicentennial tour sponsored by the Nevada Department of Veterans Services. The free exhibit will be on display at the Minden Inn from Aug. 25-Sept. 12. Viewing hours will be Monday through […]
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The Lake Tahoe Historical Society will present its first Chautauqua on Aug. 7 at 6:30pm in the Boathouse Theater at Valhalla. Four influential pioneers will present their stories with featured speaker Mark Twain (aka McAvoy Layne) relating more of the Twain tales. Tickets are $18 for members and $20 for non-members. They may be purchased […]
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• South Tahoe High hired Tony Sunzeri, an alumni of the school, as athletic director. • The Village at Squaw Valley is paying tribute to man – and woman’s – best friend with the 5th annual Peaks and Paws Festival on Aug. 23. For more info, go online. • Heidi Hall, candidate District 1 congressional […]
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Lake Tahoe Historical Society is looking for gardens to feature in its bi-annual garden tour in July 2015. The South Lake Tahoe group has several gardens on Kingsbury Grade. If you know of a garden on or near the Kingsbury Grade area that should be considered for next year’s tour, call Catherine Whelan at 530.544.3259. […]
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• The annual Gatsby Festival returns to the Tahoe Tallac Site on Aug. 9-10. The event is free from 10am-4pm. For more info, call 530.544.7383. • The North Lake Tahoe Wedding Faire at Squaw Valley is Aug. 24 from 11am-3pm. • Bodie State Historic Park’s annual Friends of Bodie Day is Aug. 9. • This […]
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With beasts and steam power, Lake Tahoe was raided for wood from the 1850s to the 1890s to build booming Virginia City and its mines. Lumber from the mills at Glenbrook traversed upward by rail to Spooner Summit where a flume then floated it down Clear Creek Grade to roughly the area where today’s Carson […]
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An office suite in a Placer County owned building in Tahoe City was recently retrofitted to provide shared office space for 5th District Supervisor Jennifer Montgomery, County Executive Officer David Boesch, the Tahoe manager for the county executive office, and Tahoe field representative. The meeting room will be the ongoing site for the monthly “Coffee […]
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Barton Health is providing Spanish speakers access to health care info through a new website. With approximately 25 percent of the people Barton services speaking Spanish, the South Lake Tahoe health organization needed a way to reach those people more effectively. Smartling’s Translation Management Platform and Global Delivery Network put the site together. Much of […]
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