Tahoe Silicon Mountain in Truckee next week will host Dick Schulze; his talk is titled Fame, Fortune, and Exploitation: The Fascinating History of Patents and Patent Trolls. Schulze, with Holland & Hart’s Intellectual Property Group, has experience in all aspects of high-tech patenting. He was a supervising attorney for 20 years in the corporate legal […]
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· Douglas County is updating the strategic plan to guide the county through fiscal years 2018-22 and is seeking public feedback on the draft that is scheduled to be presented at the March 16 board meeting. Go online to provide input. · On March 16, Tahoe Expedition Academy will host a free presentation in Tahoe Vista […]
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The South Lake Tahoe Democrats will meet monthly at Lake Tahoe Golf Course in Meyers beginning March 16 from 6-8pm. The meetings will be the third Thursday of each month. Democrats and progressives are encouraged to attend. Items on the March 16 agenda include: Reports from subcommittees on local immigration issues, health care, candidate recruitment […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is accepting public comment for the Off-Highway Vehicle Cooperative Funds grant application submitted to the state. The OHMVR grants would provide for OHV safety and education information, resource and use monitoring, and site and trail maintenance in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The 30-day grant application comment […]
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South Lake Tahoe resident Kerry Gross is embarking on a project to tell the stories of courageous women. Women Who Dare is a cross-country interview project. Gross is looking for recommendations of inspirational women for inclusion in a forthcoming podcast. Suggestions will be accepted until March 31. Gross will plan a route across to reaching […]
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· Time to load up on Thin Mints and other Girl Scout cookies. Booths sales run until April 2. Girls will be at Safeway and Grocery Outlet in South Lake Tahoe on Fridays from 4-6pm and Saturdays and Sundays from 10am-4pm. Each box is $5, with about $4 of that money going to support local, life-changing programming […]
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· Barton Health is offering discounts to patients needing a CT scan. The discount is 40 percent for insured patients and 75 percent for self-pay patients if paid in full at or before the time of service. These discounts are also applicable to CTAs, MRIs, MRAs, and any contrast materials used during these procedures. · […]
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Roland Knapp will talk about how 90 percent of the mountain yellow-legged frogs have been disappearing, the ambitious and promising effort under way to recover these frogs, and how this approach may be applied to conserving other threatened amphibians globally. Knapp works for the UC Santa Barbara Marine Science Institute based in Mammoth. The April […]
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On March 15, Live Violence Free will host the Helping Hands volunteer fair at Lake Tahoe Community College. Service organizations and nonprofits in need of volunteers will inform locals of their services and how they can get involved in what they do. The fair is designed to connect those in the South Tahoe area with […]
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· Magician Chipper Lowell returns to the stage at The Loft in South Lake Tahoe from March 16-28. · Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Community Cares Foundation gave back to the Sacramento, Tahoe and Truckee communities in 2016 with cash donations of more than $50,000, while agents and offices provided additional estimated contributions of materials, supplies […]
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