Snippets about Lake Tahoe

swim• Tiffany Carter came close to swimming the length of Lake Tahoe on Aug. 20. Read more on her blog.

• The Sierra Expeditionary Learning School opens Aug. 25. It is a charter school in the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District.

• Now you can get deals from Lakeside Inn by text message. To sign-up, text “LTLakeside” to 79338 (sweet).

• AT&T will be before a South Lake Tahoe zoning administrator Sept. 1 at 2pm in City Council chambers asking to install more wireless communications equipment on a roof at 2633 Sussex Ave., South Lake Tahoe. This is a public hearing.

• Karen Rogers of Tahoe City has postponed her Farallon Island to San Francisco swim to next year. Bad weather and returning sharks forced the change.

• The final map for the 13 condos Steve Leman plans to build in the industrial park area that fronts D Street in South Lake Tahoe was approved by the City Council without any discussion on Aug. 19.

• The August issue of Backpacker magazine has an article about the Tahoe Rim Trail.