·      Runner’s World lists the Tahoe Rim Trail as one of the top 20 trails in the United States.

·      The California Tahoe Conservancy has entered an agreement with the California Highway Patrol for officers to monitor the Upper Truckee Marsh for people (and dogs) violating the law.

·      TJ’s Corral at the Carson Valley Inn is hosting a mixed martial arts event on July 1. For more info and tickets, go online.

·      Zephyr Cove Tennis Club member Susan Cowan won the bronze medal in the National Senior Games in Alabama for women’s singles, 60-64.

·      Zagster bike share program is coming to Truckee. Ten bikes will be available at the airport or downtown.

·      Tahoe Rim Trail Association is having a fundraiser June 30, 5-9pm at Great Basin Brewery, Taps and Tanks location, 1155 South Rock Blvd., Reno.

·      Wanderlust is July 20-23 at Squaw Valley.

·      As a result of a silent auction during the Amgen bike race in May, the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority was able to give Tahoe Area Mountain Biking $1,773 to be used for the Angora-Fallen Leaf bike trails.

·      The Firecracker Mile is a race on July 4 starting at 9:40am going from U.S. Bank to downtown Truckee. Register online.

·      Eldorado National Forest is looking to fill seats on a federal resource advisory committee responsible for recommending selected projects on national forest land within El Dorado County. Applications will be accepted through July 21. For more info, call 530.621.5280.

·      The Bicycle Advisory Committee of the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Facilities Joint Powers Authority will meet July 12 from 9-11am at City Hall.

·      Coffee with a Cop is June 30 form 9-11am at Alps Haus Cafe in Markleeville.

·      The longest annual charity bicycle ride in the world, the Texas 4000 team, will be rolling through South Lake Tahoe on June 26. They are raising money for cancer research.

·      Carson High School Career and Technology Education Health Occupation Student Association Future Health Professionals, a career and technical student organization, is sending 29 students to the HOSA International Leadership Conference in Orlando June 20-25. The students will represent CHS, as well as the Carson City community and the state of Nevada in various medical competitions.

·      Tahoe City is looking for volunteers to help clean Commons Beach on July 5 from 8:30-11am. Go online to RSVP.

·      John Hopper, vice chairman of the California Tahoe Conservancy board, resigned effective after last week’s meeting. He had been appointed to the board by the speaker of the California Assembly in 1985.

·      Boaters are reminded there is a 600-foot no wake zone around the entire shoreline of Lake Tahoe.

·      Nevada Department of Wildlife public information officer Chris Healy retired last week. He was hired by the state agency in 1989 as a boating education coordinator.

·      Tioga Pass is expected to be open June 19 at 2pm.

·      Hotel Azure Tahoe (formerly Inn by the Lake) in South Lake Tahoe recently completed $3.5 million in renovations.

There will be a town hall forum on June 22 about South Lake Tahoe’s ballot initiative to raise money for roads by upping the sales tax.

The meeting will be at the Tahoe Keys office on Ala Wai Boulevard from 6-8pm.

Representatives from the city, El Dorado County, Tahoe Resource Conservation District, and Residents for Better Roads Committee will speak. The Tahoe Keys Property Owners Association board will be there.

·      Volunteers are needed June 28 from 9am–noon at Ed Z’berg Sugar Pine Point State Park to remove an invasive annual grass from a small area that is mostly populated by native species. Kids ages 10 and up welcome with a legal guardian. For more info, go online.

·      Douglas County Public Library in Minden will be closed July 4.

·      Here are the El Dorado-Tahoe and Sierra roadwork schedules for the week from Caltrans.

·      Climb Out of the Darkness, the world’s largest event raising awareness of pregnancy and postpartum mental health disorders, will have a regional climb in South Lake Tahoe on July 9. For more info, contact Rachel Szumel at 530.220.3741 or climbSLT@gmail.com.

·      The nationally celebrated classical music festival, Classical Tahoe, is July 28-Aug. 12. For more info, go online.

Douglas County Public Library is providing a summer reading program for adults this July. 

Those 18 and older may register at the Minden Library or the Zephyr Cove Library. Participants will get the opportunity to share their opinions on the books they read. 

There will be door prizes for every book or audio book completed, and participants will be entered in weekly drawings.  Programs include a mug cake baking class and bad art night.

For more info, call 775.782.9841. 

There is a movement in Olympic Valley area to create a tourism business improvement district is order to generate ongoing revenue to fund a micro mass transit district.

The goal is to provide year-round intra-valley shuttle service at no cost to the rider.

The money to do so would come from raising the transient occupancy tax from 10 percent to 11 percent in that area. Organizers believe this would fund 20 percent of the transit costs, with the hope Placer county would pick up the bulk of the expense. Squaw Valley ski resort has pledged to fund a large portion.

A petition is circulation online about the proposal.

·      The theme for Truckee’s Fourth of July parade is Truckee – Base Camp for a Big Life. Parade entry fee is $85. Entry deadline is July 2 at 5pm. Register online.

·      The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office phone system is being upgraded, which may main intermittent problems with the system for the next several days.

·       Edible Reno-Tahoe on June 22 from 6-9pm is hosting the first stop on the Good Spirits National Tour at Whitney Peak Hotel in Reno. This year’s tour will visit five Edible communities throughout the United States. This stop will bring together 11 local eateries and eight local distilleries and other spirits in the Reno-Tahoe area. Tickets are $55 and can be purchased online. 

·      Douglas County Public Library is providing two wildlife shows on July 12. The first is at 4pm at the Zephyr Cove Library. The second show will begin at 6pm at the C.V.I.C. Hall in Minden. Children of all ages will interact with live animals presented by Conservation Ambassadors Inc. These wildlife shows are free, and seating is available on a first come, first serve basis. 

Local Freshies, in association with Patagonia, will host a premiere of “Finding Fontinalis” at South Lake Brewing Company (1920 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe) on July 6.

Doors open at 6pm, show starts at 8pm. It is free for all ages.

“Finding Fontinalis” from Travis Lowe is inspired by an old gaucho’s tale of “The place with the big red fish.” A crew of fishermen set out to search for a new world-record brook trout. During this journey, the water, landscape and culture surrounding it become the impetus to conserve and protect it all.