Monday Night Writing Workshop: A fun supportive and committed writing group that meets for six Monday nights from 6:30-8pm in downtown Truckee. Generate new material, explore craft techniques to develop work, provide feedback, learn ways to inspire ourselves to write consistently and playfully, and write a lot. This workshop will help you develop work in […]
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Writing Escape Workshop: A three-hour workshop on a weekend from 10am to 1pm in downtown Truckee. Play with language and meaning in several writing prompts, generate new material, explore craft, and inspire ourselves to develop a consistent writing practice. Each workshop is different and involves much writing. For all levels of experience and any genre. […]
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• Beginning Jan. 1 Nevada constitutional officers and legislators will get a 6 percent pay increase. • Learn about the trail improvements to the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness area. • The Obama administration plans to reverse a Bush-era policy called “No More Wilderness” that will make millions of undeveloped acres of land eligible for federal wilderness protection. […]
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On Jan. 6, the Slowrollers Bike Club is hosting the annual “After Christmas Christmas Party” to benefit local friend and skier Darren Johnson. Johnson was caught in an avalanche backcountry skiing near Kirkwood on Nov. 28. The path took him over a rock cliff, and while amazingly he didn’t have any injuries from the neck […]
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BlueGo is offering extended hours on the South Shore some of its bus routes for New Year’s Eve. • Route 53 will run until 3am. • Route 50 will run extra bus service every 15-20 minutes from 7pm-3am. • Route 23 will run extra bus service every 30 minutes from 7 pm-3am. • Additional oncall […]
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South Lake Tahoe AAUW will welcome members, guests and the public as the group examines geotourism and a sustainable Tahoe at the Jan. 8 meeting at 10am in the Aspen Room at Lake Tahoe Community College. Two guest speakers will be featured. Susanne Stone, author of “Lake Tahoe, A Guidebook with a Point of View”, […]
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Explore Tahoe, located at 4114 Lake Tahoe Blvd. in South Lake near the Heavenly Village, is now selling California Sno-Park permits. These permits are $5 for a single day or $25 for a season pass and are valid at any California Sno-Park site. Explore Tahoe may be reached at(530) 542.4637.
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• Tahoe City resident Roger Paul Huff has published another book – “Journey of the Lost Princess.” • Hear Lake Tahoe Unified School District Superintendent Jim Tarwater’s webinar about technology. • El Dorado County has sandbags available for residents, though none of the locations is in the Lake Tahoe Basin. • El Dorado County officials […]
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The North Lake Tahoe Resort Association, in collaboration with the North Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce, has awarded $49,133 in Community Marketing Grants to a variety of special events and organizations. Twenty nine applicants requested $105,000 in grant funding. Many of those not awarded grant funding are getting in-kind support from the Resort Association. The […]
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Everyone has a Tahoe story. Bona Fide Books wants to read yours. Bona Fide Books, a small press in Meyers, is seeking short fiction and nonfiction for a collection about life at the lake. Micro-stories from any fiction or nonfiction genre are welcome: memoir, humor, action-adventure, tragedy, mystery, love or love lost, even ghost stories. […]
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