Community briefsContent for briefs is selected from e-mail submissions to Community Editor Amy Edgett at aedgett@sierrasun.com. Visit www.sierrasun.com to submit events online. Please limit descriptions to 50 words. E-mail submissioCopyright 2012 Continue Reading
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New events wanted for SnowFest! winter carnival
TAHOE, Calif. - SnowFest!, celebrating its 32nd year, is looking for new events to add to the calendar for the annual North Lake Tahoe Festival. The 10-day winter carnival celebration is scheduled for Friday, March 1 through SunCopyright 2012 Sierra Continue Reading
Black CATT Halloween Ball Tickets on sale
TRUCKEE, Calif. - Tickets for the 2012 Black CATT Halloween Ball presented by Trex and Truckee Tahoe Lumber are on sale now. The Contractors Association of Truckee Tahoe will host the event on Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Truckee TCopyright 2012 Sierra Continue Reading
Dining announcements | Foodie news you can use
TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. _ Editor's note: Submit your dining news to aedgett@sierrasun.com, subject, dining. You may include health tips, events, gluten-free recipes, whatever fires you up. Please include the 5ws: who, what, when, Copyright 2012 Sierra Continue Reading
New York Times columnist to discuss her book ‘Reckless Endangerment’
OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. - Squaw Valley Institute will bring Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Gretchen Morgenson to the Resort at Squaw Creek on Saturday, Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. Named by weekly magazine The Nation as Copyright 2012 Sierra Continue Reading
Eight-week kettlebell conditioning program, swing-a-thon announced
TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - With what everyone in the Truckee-Tahoe Community hopes to be a snowy winter, it is extremely important to be physically prepared. Ryan Egan and the trainers at Rebel Fitness Academy in Truckee understandCopyright 2012 Sierra Continue Reading
Bowl For Kids’ Sake to blast off with intergalactic bowl-a-thon and party
TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nevada County and North Lake Tahoe is preparing to celebrate five years of mentoring in the Tahoe-Truckee area with an out-of-this-world bowl-a-thon and party Oct. 13, 2012.BCopyright 2012 Sierra Continue Reading
Fall classic combines community, competition
TAHOE CITY, Calif. - Local volunteer group The Gang held its second annual Fall Classic softball tournament in Tahoe City. Friends from four summer softball teams, many of them also members of The Gang, faced off in the name of Copyright 2012 Sierra Continue Reading
Police: Tahoe apartment explosion caused by hashish operation
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Schuyler VanFleet, 22, was taken into police custody and Barek Madden, 23, was flown to UC Davis Medical Center with third-degree burns on his face, arms and upper body on Wednesday after their allegedCopyright 2012 Sierra Continue Reading
Large Asian clam control project to take place at Lake Tahoe
TAHOMA, Calif. - The largest Asian clam control project in the history of Lake Tahoe will begin Oct. 15, with plans to treat an area of up to 5 acres at the mouth of Emerald Bay.The project will be conducted by a team of partnCopyright 2012 Sierra Continue Reading