Snippets about Lake Tahoe

jeep• There will be a hands-on 4-wheel drive clinic June 4 from 9am-1pm on the Twin Peaks Trail on the South Shore. Register online.

•The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors and Sheriff John D’Agostini’s lack of love for one another is evident on this video.

• Douglas County Community Development Department is having a workshop May 12 from 5:30-7pm to review the goals and policies of the master plan regional and community plans. The meeting is at Kahle Community Center, Stateline.

• A scenic 880-acre meadow near Bridgeport is now in the hands of the U.S. Forest Service. The feds bought the property near the Hoover Wilderness area for $2.2 million from the Arlington, Va.-based nonprofit organization Conservation Fund.

• Book launch for Andrew Homan’s “Life in the Slipstream: The Legend of Bobby Walthour Sr.” is May 6 from 6:30-8:30pm at Bona Fide Books, 1069 Magua St., No. 4, Meyers. Reading, presentation and sale of book at the event.

• Here is Caltrans‘ roadwork schedule for the next week in and around the Lake Tahoe Basin.

• Monitor Pass is now open.

• Sept. 13 is when Nevada voters will pick a replacement for Rep. Dean Heller, R-Carson City. Heller will replace John Ensign in the Senate.