Lake Tahoe School’s Summer Series 2010 for ages 6–14 will be four-day sessions, spanning three weeks: July 12-15, July 19–22, and July 26-July 29. Overnight, full-day and half-day sessions are offered. Children can experience rock climbing, hiking, kayaking, sailing, and whitewater rafting, and more in the outdoors. Learning Experiences include Science in the Outdoors, Computer […]
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Cowboy Country, the tourism organization that promotes northeastern Nevada, is seeking high school seniors in Nevada who plan to pursue a degree in a tourism-related field to apply for a $1,000 scholarship. The deadline to apply is March 8. The June Stannard Memorial Scholarship was established in 2008 at the Nevada Commission on Tourism’s (NCOT) […]
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By Kathryn Reed Water might be something people in the Lake Tahoe area take for granted considering the amount of snow that falls each winter and the big lake that’s out there. But predictions are that by 2030 two-thirds of the world will lack access to clean drinking water. Even though 75 percent of the […]
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North Lake Tahoe’s annual SnowFest, a 10-day winter carnival, commemorates its 29th anniversary with a bevy of new events March 5-14. Squaw Valley’s Cornice Cantina kicks it off after the Opening Night Ceremonies with the inaugural ’80s Retro Dance Party on March 5 at 9pm. Guests are encouraged to dress in the neon trends of […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — Sometimes the line between work and play is hard to delineate for Terri Marceron. As supervisor of the 153,000 acres that encompass the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the U.S. Forest Service, she is responsible for more acreage than any other entity in the basin. As an avid hiker, […]
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The Tahoe Rim Trail Association, in partnership with the National Association for Interpretation, is offering a professional one day Interpretive Writing Workshop on April 9. This workshop introduces people to the techniques for written interpretation. It will focus on strategies that make non-personal interpretation come close to the impact of compelling front-line interpretation. These techniques […]
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“It’s a Small Fish After All†aims to enhance populations of native Mountain Whitefish and Speckled dace in Lake Tahoe streams by rearing them in the classroom, improving their stream habitat prior to release and educating legislators and the community about the importance of these small fish. Bob Comlossy’s fifth-grade students in Meyers interviewed numerous […]
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St. Theresa School students on Tuesday were given the challenge to document more than 5,000 random acts of kindness in two weeks. They are competing with other schools to see who can document the most random acts of kindness. Motivational speaker Brian Williams was at the South Lake Tahoe school this week telling the students […]
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By Karen Houser Youth in South Lake Tahoe have set the wheels in motion and are taking the next steps to form a South Lake Tahoe Youth Commission. In 2009, high school and community college students began meeting and looking into what it would take to form a Youth Commission. The purpose of the commission […]
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In association with the production of “The Laramie Project,†the Lake Tahoe Community College Theatre Department is inviting submissions from students, and the community about personal experiences involving harassment, violence, hate, intolerance, or feelings of being targeted or threatened because of sexual orientation, religious beliefs, race, gender, physicality, or disability, and how individuals were able […]
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