Find out what is below the surface of Lake Tahoe on May 14. Phil Caterino has spent the last 40 years working to protect Lake Tahoe. He was the founder of Alpengroup, the Sierra Avalanche Center, the Nevada Conservation League, the Tahoe Divers Conservancy, and the Thunderbird Lodge Preservation Society. He is a strong advocate […]
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In an effort to positively impact the health of everyone the community, the Barton Foundation is offering grants to health-related local programs. The foundation is increasing the reach of its philanthropy by providing funding to programs and organizations that benefit underserved populations and/or can have the greatest impact on the health of the entire community. […]
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Plans are moving forward for the 3rd Annual Artists’ Studio Tour in South Lake Tahoe. The tour will be on the weekends of July 30-Aug. 1 and Aug. 6-8. If you are interested in participating, you may choose one or both weekends. Several artists are willing to share their space with other artists. Tahoe Art […]
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Bona Fide Books is initiating the annual Melissa Lanitis Gregory Prize for an unpublished collection of poems. Lanitis was a South Lake Tahoe artist who died last year. This award created by Bona Fide Books Publisher Kim Wyatt is in honor of her friend and to recognize the inspiration Lantis gave to so many others […]
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By Kathryn Reed FOLSOM — Folsom, really? That was the reaction I got before and after people learned about my whereabouts last weekend. Yes, really, that’s where I was for three nights. It provided the ideal location for a long weekend out of town that was close by, but completely different than the mountains. Flowers […]
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By Gus Thomson, Auburn Journal Justice is coming for Sheriff William Elam. It just took a little while. Elam was killed in October 1951 when his car swerved off the a rain-slickened Sierra highway. He wasn’t the first Placer County Sheriff’s Department officer to die in the line of duty and he wasn’t to be […]
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Join Graham Kent, Heidi Buck and the Forest Guard Students. This documentary presents a whirlwind year in the life of six home-schooled children the foothills of Northern California who have developed an ingenious invention for the early detection of forest fires. What starts as a local environmental solution evolves into an idea that could have […]
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El Dorado County Office of Education and El Dorado Center of Folsom Lake College are excited to announce the Intensive Summer Enrichment Experience (I SEE) hosted at the El Dorado Center campus in Placerville. This summer school opportunity is designed for middle school students who are interested in taking enrichment classes in the areas of […]
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The Tahoe Tourism “Your Town Forum” will provide South Shore businesses an opportunity to hear from tourism experts all about what’s new for summer. The Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority will preview its strategic plan and unveil the 2010 summer marketing campaign. Representatives from the Sierra Nevada Conservancy and the Sierra Business Council will talk about […]
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Marcus Ashley Gallery is unveiling a new artist this month. Nick Sninkelletti, 29, will be showing an array of his original paintings and hand-embellished reproductions during the third Friday Art Walk in South Lake Tahoe. Sninkelletti paints a variety of subjects matter and is known as a colorist and a portrait painter. The Art Walk […]
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