• There will be an open house April 10 from 11:30am-1pm to say goodbye to Douglas County Manager Steve Mokrohisky and welcome interim manager, Larry Werner. It will be at the Minden Inn, 1594 Esmeralda Ave., Minden. • Kiwanis is sponsoring a bingo night April 12 from 5-8pm at the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Center, […]
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Tonight between 8:30 and 9:30, Harrah’s and Harveys Lake Tahoe will participate in Earth Hour to bring awareness to climate change. This is the sixth consecutive year that the two Stateline casinos will encourage guests and employees to turn off all non-essential interior lighting, while the resorts’ lighted exteriors, electronic marquees and non-essential lighting are […]
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Zahi Hawass, a world-renowned archaeologist and the former minister of Antiquities in Egypt and the director of ongoing excavations at Giza, Saqqara, and the Valley of the Kings, will give a talk March 31 at Sierra Nevada College. He is a distinguished scholar of residence at the Incline Village institution. His presentation will be from […]
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• North Tahoe Public Utility District is reinstating the Recreation and Parks Commission. For more info or to apply for a seat, contact Tracey Towner at 530.546.4212 or ttowner@ntpud.org. • Dave Fromer Soccer Camp for boys and girls ages 5-12 will be Aug. 18-22 in Tahoe City. Go online for more info. • Truckee High […]
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Rep. Tom McClintock’s office is providing a forum for veterans’ service providers, American Legion and VFW representatives, and community program sponsors that assist active-duty military, wounded warriors, and military families. To participate, call the congressman’s Granite Bay office at 916.786.5560. The forum is designed to provide veterans with the information they need to access the […]
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• El Dorado County Fair entry forms are due May 21. • Washoe County sheriff’s Capt. Heidi Howe was elected to serve on the American Jail Association’s board of directors. • Sierra Sotheby’s International Realty is opening a Truckee office in the summer. • The Academic Team at Truckee High School earned the state championship […]
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Lake Tahoe Historical Society’s second Do You Remember? program is April 15 at 7pm at the Lodge of Camp Richardson. It will be a panel of longtime residents telling stories and answering questions about the past. Dave Borges will moderate. Panelists include Carolyn Meiers, Jerry Johnson, Jack Martin, Del Laine, Steve James and Melba Rakow. […]
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The Lake Tahoe Aquatic Invasive Species coordination committee is putting on a talk to highlight aquatic invasive species control and prevention efforts in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The event is May 22 from 5:30-7:30pm. It is at Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village.
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• Moosejaw, the outdoor retailer, teamed up with Patagonia to offer $10,000 to the three environmental charities that raised the most money in the Moosejaw X Patagonia Charity Challenge Thing. In just two weeks the crowd-sourced funding raised over $110,000 for the 16 charitable groups. League to Save Lake Tahoe placed first by raising over […]
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Incorporate Olympic Valley has launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign: Squaw Valley, Help Determine Its Future. The campaign will raise funds to incorporate Olympic Valley. In 2013, local residents came together to form Incorporate Olympic Valley in order to promote local control of their future. Currently all decisions about municipal service delivery and tax dollars are […]
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