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Expanding access to healthcare in rural communities requires innovation and collaboration. In remote areas like South Lake Tahoe with smaller populations, residents still expect high quality care and individual medical needs vary widely.

To increase specialty medical services available in our community, with consideration that unique medical conditions may not have the demand for a local office, Barton Health launched Telemedicine in 2009.

Jenn Boyd of Weidinger PR hosts this wide-ranging panel discussion from the Elevate Your View: Leadership Lake Tahoe 2014 summit. The panel features Dana Williams, former mayor of Park City, UT; plus Carl Ribaudo of Strategic Marketing Group and Carol Chaplin of the Lake Tahoe Visitor's Authority's Tahoe South campaign.

PANEL DISCUSSION:
Jenn Boyd Introduction (0:35)
Dana Williams on transforming Park City (6:06)
Carol Chaplin on what Tahoe South is doing to promote itself (10:00)

The City of South Lake Tahoe issued a press release last week, inviting the public to a 9 a.m. ceremony on Monday morning to witness the long awaited removal of the fence at The Chateau Project near Stateline. Apparently the contractors on the project, SMC Contracting, had a different time frame in mind because when dignitaries, the press and the public showed up, the fence was already down.

The concrete barriers were all that remained along Highway 50, with some metal fencing and barriers remaining on the Stateline Avenue side.

Another exciting month for music in #LakeTahoe! Major Headliners include Sammy Hagar, America, Elvin Bishop, The Oak Ridge Boys, Mickey Avalon, and the Dead Winter Carpenters; plus all the events around #memorialdayweekend2014

Also notable: The Heavenly Village concert series hosted by +Dreu Withu is starting up with music from NVO, TROPO, Liquid Kactus, and more and I'm going to be filming it for +Tahoe Onstage; plus a live concert from +EJ Hixenbaugh's new band Taking Root at Rojo's on the 17th and live appearances at the Marriot Timber Lodge by +Anne Roos starting tomorrow.

The recent standoff at the last remaining ranch in Clark County, NV has been widely attributed to environmental protection around the endangered desert tortoise; with the right wing trying to pin the blame on Nevada Senator Harry Reid for his support of the recent Ivanpah solar plant which, generates 392 MW which powers Google servers (See Dana Loesch Radio for an example of the kind of coverage it gets http://danaloeschradio.com/the-real-story-of-the-bundy-ranch/ and http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/11/the-nevada-tortoise-war-is-a-right-wing-false-f/198860 for a Media Matters article deb

One South Lake Tahoe woman was careflighted to Renown Medical Center in Reno on Saturday night after the motorcycle she was a passenger on collided with a truck in Carson City.

The Nevada Highway Patrol(NHP) was called to the scene of a motorcycle accident at the intersection of Roop and Fairview Streets at approximately 10:45 p.m. on Saturday, March 22.

If you could take Muddy Waters, the Beatles, Tina Turner. David Bowie and Tom Petty, throw in a little Jay Z and mix them all up, you'd come up with a blond 27 year old named ZZ Ward.

After listening to her debut CD, "Til the Casket Drops", I am a new fan. And apparently I am not alone. "The tour has been incredible," Ward told me in a phone interview. "At every venue I'm seeing new fans and it's been a very positive thing to see."

If you weren't able to make it to Saturday night's Dancing With the Tahoe Stars, here is a video produced by John Durst and Fabulous Lake Tahoe! Tahoe Arts Project presented the second annual dancing event to raise funds that help bring the arts into the local schools.

JUDGES:
Marcia Sarosik of the Lake Tahoe Shining Stars Dance Troupe
Paul Middlebrook of KRLT radio
Don Bosson - realtor/musician

FEATURED PERFORMANCES
Liz Niven w/ Adam Hopkins Samba to "They Call Me Cuban Pete" by Desi Arnaz ( 2:15 )
Jodi Stewart and Lyndon Facey Hip-Hop to "Dirty South" ( 6:29 )

The South Lake Tahoe community is know for its ability to pull together when one of it own is in need of help, and that is evident once again with the story of Ryan Wallace. The life long local had a rare form of bone cancer which led to the amputation of his leg when he was just 19.

Youth Sports and Recreation celebrated a ribbon cutting on January 31
with Tahoe Chamber on hand to officiate. Owner Tim Wesley invited guests
to tour his facility and learn more about the business, which operates to promote physical activity and provide nutritional education to children ages 5 to 17.

Youth Sports and Recreation also provides a tutoring center for after school care. Instructors demonstrated martial arts while children tried
the various machines available, including stationary bikes that allowed riders to play video games as they cycled.

The Lucky Liquor Store on Highway 395 in Gardnerville was robbed on December 26 by a Hispanic man with a small semi-automatic weapon.

According to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, the suspect walked into the liquor store at 8:30 pm and demanded money from the store employee. The robber is described as a Hispanic male, 30 to 35 years of age, 6’ tall, 250 pounds wearing a black jacket with a hood and black shorts. The lower part of his face was covered by a red bandana. He used a small semi-automatic silver and black pistol to commit the robbery.

K-Tahoe's own, Charlee, from the Charlee Simons & Jen morning show, gets busted while video taping some allegedly "drunken" reindeer!

Many know Hall of Fame Steelers Quarterback Terry Bradshaw as just that, a superstar football player. Others know Bradshaw for his entertaining commentary on football games from his commentator seat. While yet another group will know him from his acting in such movies as Cannonball Run and Hooper, television shows Las Vegas and Malcolm in the Middle and from singing with his daughter, country singer Rachel Bradshaw.

SouthTahoeNow.com had a booth at this year's Halloween Cove at The Beach Retreat & Lodge! K-Tahoe's morning show, Charlee Simons & Jen, take us on a quick video tour of the event.

Everything from Yoga to plastic surgery to food and fitness will be covered during the Annual Lake Tahoe Women's Wellness Weekend at Granlibakken Lodge & Conference Center November 9-10. Speakers, women's health professionals, authors and others will present on a myriad of topics concerning women and their health.

Double neck guitar phenomenon Ian Ethan Case will play a fundraising concert for STHS music on September 12th at the South Tahoe High Theater. Show time is 6 pm. Come and see this extraordinary and creative artist as he visits the West Coast for the first time in years. He's taking a day off of his tour to help out the school's music program. The show is $10 and tickets are available at the door.

View Case's video.

8/30/13 6:50 am update: South Lake Tahoe enjoyed a blue sky day on Thursday but smoke from fhe Rim Fire filled the basin by afternoon. A low pressure system moving in from the northwest may cause more smoke to make its way into the area today as winds are coming from the southwest. The Rim fire has now burned 201,894 acres and is now 32% contained. Firefighters will be constructing contingency lines in advance of the communities of Tuolumne City, Twain Harte, and Long Barn.

On the night of Tuesday Aug. 8, an unidentified suspect walked into the USA gas station located at 2470 Lake Tahoe Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe and killed Manpreet Singh, 27, of South Lake Tahoe, with a gunshot to the upper torso.

From Tahoe’s mountaintops to the lake’s sandy bottom, scientists from the University of Nevada, Reno continue to study and find solutions to the breadth of issues that face the entire Lake Tahoe Basin. Their research is making a tangible contribution to the decisions, policies and practices that guide the basin’s environmental health.

Whether you’re looking to update your job skills, pursue a college degree, or just take classes for personal growth, there are a number of options to explore this fall at Lake Tahoe Community College.

LTCC students enjoy the highest transfer rate to UC and CSU schools for a community college of its size in California. They also learn from one of the best educated, most experienced faculty in the community college system. No matter what your educational goal is, LTCC can help you reach it.

A 27-year-old clerk working at a gas station in South Lake Tahoe was shot to death Tuesday night. The assailant – whose description has not been released – is on the loose. Video in the store is being looked at.

Sandboxes have come a long way. A new interactive, augmented-reality exhibit brings watersheds to life at the University of California, Davis' Tahoe Science Center in Incline Village, Nev.

Participants run their hands through real sand, forming mountains, lakes and rivers, while a 3-D camera and digital projector allowusers to create virtual topography in real time, make it "rain" and watch where the water flows.

Jack Durst of Fabulous Lake Tahoe provides an interactive guide to concerts and events at Lake Tahoe in July 2013: Click any concert poster or marquee to be taken to a music video of the band you're interested in.

As Lake Tahoe prepares for its premiere eye-candy fireworks extravaganza over the sky Thursday night, Jack Durst at the website Fabulous Lake Tahoe offers these great tips in the video below on how to effectively take Fourth of July fireworks photographs and video.