Snippets about Lake Tahoe

Larry Green, Lake Tahoe Unified School District board member and Lake Tahoe Community College math instructor, is one of seven high-powered “Thinkers” in a San Francisco group supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that is looking for ways to improve K-14

Larry Green

education in science and math.

El Dorado County sheriff’s Sgt. Matt Underhill took gold at the 5th annual Ryan Shreve Memorial Ski Race at Sierra-at-Tahoe on March 17. Like Shreve, Underhill graduated from South Tahoe High.

A sign the economy may be picking up — Martis Camp in Truckee expects to build more than 20 houses this year. In 2009, 12 were built.

Lake Tahoe Museum in South Tahoe recently received two unique donations. John Marker donated a bathtub that may be from the old Sierra House. A 50-piece, 17-foot wooden kayak from the 1940s was assembled my museum volunteers.

Megan Hicks, a South Tahoe High grad, is headed to the Peace Corps.