• Start your week with a Concert at Commons Beach in Tahoe City. Beginning June 22nd, there are concerts every Sunday from 3pm to 7pm. Enjoy local, regional and national performers while you take in the ambiance of this lakeside event. Bring your picnic basket and a low-backed chair. For more information including a schedule of performers, click on the Concerts at Commons Beach website. • One of Continue Reading
Archives for May 2014
Hike for Hounds, Galena Creek State Park
Bring your best friend to this event at Galena Creek State Park, south of Reno, on June 7th from 10:00am-1:00pm. Hike in the Sierras where you will enjoy magnificent vistas and be surrounded by beautiful pines. If you power down the trail, the hike will take about one hour, but if you stop to enjoy the scenery, a little longer. The reward at the end of the hike, for both you and your hound, is Continue Reading
Trail Running for Everyone in Lake Tahoe and Squaw Valley
Tahoe Trail Running is offering several runs in the month of June. Check them out below. • Truckee Running Festival is a great family event on Saturday, June 7th. The run begins and ends at Riverview Park in Truckee and offers the opportunity to do a 5K or 10K or a Half Marathon. There are even short races for kids. For more details, course map and registration, click on the Truckee Running Continue Reading
Lake Tahoe Bike Races Coming Up in June
On Sunday, June 1, 2014, the 72-mile America’s Most Beautiful Ride—Lake Tahoe begins and ends in Stateline Nevada on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe. As you travel clockwise around the Lake you will encounter a challenging 800 foot climb to a rest stop overlooking Emerald Bay and then, on the north end of the Lake, a 1,000 foot climb to Spooner Junction. There is a total of over 4,024 vertical Continue Reading
It’s Farmers’ Market Time in Truckee & Tahoe City
The farmers’ market is a great gathering place for both locals and vacationers to visit with friends and purchase fruits and vegetables directly from the farmer who grew them. Produce is usually picked on the morning of the market or possibly the night before. Vendors have been inspected by the local Agriculture Department and often carry other products such as eggs, cheeses, honey and more. Continue Reading
The Eagles Live “One Of These Nights” in Washington 1977
This has nothing to do with Real Estate in the North Tahoe, Squaw Valley and Truckee area, but the Eagles are one of my favorite Rock Bands and I thought you might enjoy this video. The Eagles will be preforming at Harvey's Outdoor Amphitheatre in South Lake Tahoe on August 29th & 30th, 2014. That is a great venue on a nice summer night! Click here to watch Eagles Live "One Of These Nights" Continue Reading
Court Ruling on TRPA Regional Plan Update Appealed
In the ongoing saga of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s regional plan update, the issues are the same according to the Sierra Club and Friends of the West Shore: • Judge John A. Mendez made the wrong decision when he upheld the regional plan. • The plan fails to properly analyze the impacts it will have on soil, water and air quality. • It fails to protect the fragile environment of Lake Continue Reading
Controversy Over Village at Squaw Valley Expansion and Incorporate Olympic Valley Heating Up
It appears that the battle lines are being drawn and the supporters and those opposed to these two closely linked important proposals are taking their positions and making them publicly known. How are these two proposals linked? Many say that the Incorporate Olympic Valley committee was formed to stop the Village at Squaw Valley expansion, others say it was formed to control the development. Continue Reading
Subdivision Proposed for Alpine Meadows
If approved, Alpine Sierra Subdivision would be the first residential development in Alpine Meadows, between Tahoe City and Squaw Valley, since the 1980s. Alpine Meadows is a long beautiful up sloping canyon stretching from Hwy 89, north of Tahoe City, to the Alpine Meadows ski area at the top of the canyon. The Notice of Preparation of the Draft Environmental Impact Report for this project was Continue Reading
Construction Begins on the Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Plan
The first phase includes the dreaded road construction—it’s that time of year! The four-lane highway will be converted into three lanes; Brook Avenue will become one way; Coon Street will have a roundabout when construction is completed. The work will occur Monday through Friday from 7:00 am until 10:00 pm now through the end of June and then again September through October and 8:00am to 6:00pm Continue Reading