Special Olympics Northern California & Nevada will host the annual South Lake Tahoe Polar Plunge on March 18 at Zephyr Cove Resort. The Plunge will be featured during a full weekend of events and activities to benefit Special Olympics. To kick off the plunge weekend, Special Olympics Nevada will host a Tip-A-Cop happy hour from […]
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The dual sides of love and relationships get a comedic treatment in the play “Love/Sick” by John Cariani, which will be staged at Lake Tahoe Community College from March 17-26. Considered quirky, humorous, and poignant, “Love/Sick” is a darker cousin to Cariani’s play “Almost, Maine”, which was a big at LTCC a few years ago. […]
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Liberty Utilities is offering academic scholarships to high school and college students within its service territory. The eight schools participating in the fifth annual scholarship program are South Tahoe High School, Loyalton High School, Douglas High School (students residing in Alpine County only), Coleville High School, North Tahoe High School, Truckee High School and Portola […]
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Soroptimist International of Tahoe Sierra celebrated 14 writers from South Tahoe Middle School at the 10th annual Writing Festival. Each grade, directed by their language arts teachers, had a prompt that they wrote to. Sixth-grade students wrote a persuasive essay on “Should Teachers Assign Homework.”.The winners were Hayden Cannon, Stella Devine, Toby Paul and Brock […]
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The Family Caregiver Support Program of the El Dorado County Health and Human Services Agency is putting on a free aging and caregiver educational series in South Lake Tahoe. It will be weekly on Mondays beginning April 17 and ending May 22, 1-3pm at the Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel in South Lake Tahoe. The series […]
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As the well-known inventor of riveted work pants, much has been written about Jacob William “JW” Davis, some fact and some fiction. The fact that the world’s favorite item of clothing was invented and patented in Reno by him is unknown to most locals and denim fans worldwide. Having followed numerous paper trails, Kathleen P. […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College Art Club is bringing artist Max Rain to campus for two days of free events for the entire community. On March 10, Rain will present a lecture and slideshow about his varied artistic pursuits at 5:30pm in Room F101 in the Fine Arts building. On March 11 from 10am-1pm in Room […]
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The annual Kings Beach Snowfest Parade will take place on March 11, 11:30am-12:30pm along Highway 28 starting at Secline Street and ending at the Coon Street roundabout. It will feature entries from more than 30 community nonprofit organizations, government agencies, service groups, and local businesses. There will be an announcing stand in front of the […]
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By Pete Bissonette Are you doing what matters most to you? Does your work give your life meaning? I’m not asking whether you are happy, but whether your life has meaning. A study in the Journal of Positive Psychology examined attitudes toward happiness and meaning. It showed a meaningful life and a happy life overlap […]
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Mac is a sweet happy 3-year-old boy who has been at the shelter for almost six weeks. He is a lot of fun and has good manners, but he is starting to become barky after being in the shelter for so long. He does well with most other dogs and has lived with cats. He […]
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