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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The following is a list of calls the South Lake Tahoe Police Department responded to during the week of Jan. 29-Feb. 4, 2024. Location Checks are when officers search an area at a certain address. Transient/Homeless arrests/citations and calls are those normally categorized in other columns (Drunk in Public, Trespassing, etc.) but stats are collected separately.

Log for January 29 - February 4, 2024

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Arrests
None

Other Calls
00:00 Mental Dist Person - Disposition: Checks Ok.

LAKE TAHOE, Nev. - Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe is bringing back its popular “Open Late Fridays” starting this Friday, February 23. For the rest of the season, the resort will stay open two additional hours on Fridays, spinning select chairlifts until 6 p.m. and making the most of longer days and mid-winter snow conditions. The two-hour extension of its operations on Fridays allows skiers and riders to take “bonus runs” or kick off the weekend with an afternoon on the mountain.

Late-Nite Productions is proud to present an evening of stand-up Comedy with Nikki Glaser as we catch her on "The Good Girl Tour." This is taking place on Saturday, May 25, 2024, at the Bally's Lake Tahoe Showroom. Tickets are available online at Ticketmaster.com or by visiting/calling the Bally's Box Office at 775.588.3515

Two new shows have been added to the Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey's Tahoe: Dan + Shay, and Lake Tahoe is for Lovers. Country music stars Dan + Shay embark on their Heartbreak on the Map Tour this month, and it has been extended into the summer. The three-time Grammy Award winners will have Jake Owen and Dylan Marlowe on the tour with them.

Their Lake Tahoe stop is Sunday, September 15 at 7 p.m. Dan + Shay will be the new coaches on The Voice for the upcoming season.

Tickets can be found HERE.

Five ultra-athletes will retrace the steps of John "Snowshoe" Thompson's inaugural mail route which he began on January 3, 1856, from Placerville, Calif. to Genoa, Nev., 90 miles away and across the snowbound Sierra Nevada.

The Snowshoe Thompson Expedition team will complete their journey over five days and carry a GPS tracker enabling live updates of their progress which followers can track here.

The event is being postponed due to the snow. Save the date for April 14 as it is being rescheduled.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Celebrate the history of one of the biggest legends of the Sierra Nevada when the Lake Tahoe Historial Society hosts the 21st annual Snowshoe Thompson Ski & Snowshoe Celebration on Sunday, March 3 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

This free event will be held in the History Complex, 3058 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe.

The lineup:
Snowshoe Thompson Chautauqua by local historian and author David Woodruff as Snowshoe and Gayle Woodruff as his wife, Agnes

“O, pity the child who lives in a fact-based world!" Peter and the Starcatcher, the winner of five Tony awards, is coming to the Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC) on March 8, 9, 10, and March 15, 16, 17. Make sure to get hooked on this presentation by 4th Wall Down Productions in association with LTCC.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The Kiwanis Club of Tahoe Sierra is inviting the South Lake Tahoe community to an informational meeting on fentanyl on Wednesday, February 21. This dangerous drug took the lives of four people earlier this month in South Lake Tahoe.

The informational meeting will be held in the Aspen Room of Lake Tahoe Community College starting at 5:30 p.m. on This room is adjacent to the library.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Have you heard of The CAPP FUND? Back in 2020, a month before the world shut down, the CAPP Fund made its debut. A small, all-volunteer nonprofit located in South Lake Tahoe, the CAPP Fund intends to increase access to higher education by helping local high school seniors with the costs of 4-year college application fees. The goal is to give more young adults the opportunity of a college education by taking away the small barrier of the application fees.

Dear Editor: Our Chambers of Commerce have worked diligently to support the citizens and businesses of South Lake Tahoe.

It was the Chamber that
- Pushed for the building of the Utility District to handle sewer and water to protect the Lake
- Initiated the incorporation of the City
- Started Clean Tahoe
- Gave the first contributions to start the Boys and Girls Club
- Helped write the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act
- Helped to bring the annual Presidential Summit that has since brought a billion dollars in environmental benefits to Lake Tahoe

Clean Up The Lake (CUTL), a 501(c)3 environmental nonprofit, completed its first SCUBA-enabled pilot research project in Echo Lakes, California to evaluate litter accumulations and survey for aquatic invasive species (AIS).

Sierra-at-Tahoe has launched a mid-season pass that offers guests unlimited skiing and riding any day, every day, until closing day with no blackouts for $267. Called the “Fear of Missing Out" (or FOMO) Pass, it is designed to allow guests to experience the newest terrain in the Tahoe Basin, at an incredible price.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - El Dorado County Sheriff's Office responds to calls throughout the county. The following calls only pertain to the South and West Shore, including Meyers, South Lake Tahoe, Meeks Bay, Tahoma, and the Echo Summit area. There may be some missing calls due to sheriff's logs not being completed at the time of the story.

Feb. 8 - Feb. 14, 2024

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09:40 SUSP VEH STOP - Officer initiated activity at North Upper Truckee Rd/Pooewin St, South Lake Tahoe, CA. Disposition: REPORT TAKEN.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The National Weather Service (NWS) in Reno has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for the Lake Tahoe Basin for 10 a.m. Saturday through 4 a.m. Sunday. That will be followed by a Winter Storm Warning from 4 p.m. Sunday to 10 a.m. Wednesday.

For the Winter Weather Advisory, a quick storm will be dropping snow over the Sierra. Snow accumulations at lake level could be up to one inch, and up to 5 inches at higher elevations, with the highest accumulations along and west of SR89.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Updates have been made to the water conservation code in South Lake Tahoe, changing the dates and times for watering. During their meeting on February 15, the South Tahoe Public Utility District (District) Board of Directors adopted the updates to comply with the State of California water conservation regulations.

The current codes were implemented in 2015 and have not been substantially updated in 20 years. In that time, the State of California has signed into law multiple water conservation mandates.

The changes:

LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Hundreds of salt dough necklaces were created by the third and fourth graders at Tahoe Lake Elementary School in Tahoe City for Valentine's Day.

The students sold all the heart necklaces they made at their school and made $140. They will be donating all of the money raised to Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care (LTWC) in South Lake Tahoe.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The friends of Keely Pereira of South Lake Tahoe have started a GoFundMe fundraising account to help with the family's funeral and memorial service expenses. Keely was one of the four people who lost their lives in South Lake Tahoe on Monday.

"Keely was a bright spark in this world, a power of nature, and will be deeply missed. She touched the lives of so many and it’s our turn to give back to her family in these hard times," was stated on her fundraiser.

In their continuing support of Bread & Broth’s mission to ease hunger in the Lake Tahoe South Shore community, Heavenly Mountain Resort hosted Bread & Broth’s (B&B) Monday Meal on February 5. The $350 Adopt a Day of Nourishment (AAD) sponsorship fee is funded by Vail’s EpicPromise grant which designated $4,200 to host twelve Adopt A Days in 2024 and provides each of the local Vail Resorts, Heavenly Mountain Resort, and Kirkwood Mountain Resort, the opportunity to send their team members to participate in their sponsorship meals.

Clifford Joy was one of the four people who were found deceased in a South Lake Tahoe home on Monday morning. He leaves behind a wife and three small children.

A GoFundMe fundraiser has been started by the sister of Clifford's wife Katrina Joy.

Cliff was a hard-working man who lived for his family. His death was completely unexpected and he did not have any type of life insurance to help cover expenses in such an event. Friends are hoping to raise enough to cover the funeral costs and help Katrina and their children as they navigate life without her partner.

After spending at least twenty years vacationing annually in South Lake Tahoe, my husband and I purchased a small second home in SLT in October of 2017. We come up to SLT for the summer months and sometimes spend the Thanksgiving and/or the Christmas holidays there. Sometimes we come up for my birthday. If we have family or friends who want to come to Tahoe, we will drive up from Palm Desert where we live (a nine-hour drive) and use our vacation home to house and entertain our visitors.

Sadly it sometimes takes a tragedy to create awareness, and this week's tragic deaths of four people in South Lake Tahoe are bringing out questions.

Why?
What is Fentanyl?
What are naloxone and Narcan and where do I find them?
What are test strips?
What can I do?

While the "whys" are not answerable, the rest of the questions are.

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Nev. - There was another passionate packed house on Tuesday to hear the Douglas County School Board (DCSB) vote on its candidate for superintendent, John A. Ramirez, Jr. Many of those in attendance wore the familiar red shirts and carried signs including those that stated "My Voice Doesn't Matter" and "Don't hire a liar."

South Lake Tahoe is a beautiful and vibrant community that relies heavily on tourism and seasonal residents to support its economy. The idea of implementing a vacancy tax in South Lake Tahoe is not only unnecessary but could also have detrimental effects on the local economy and housing market.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - There was a return of antisemitic hate speech during Tuesday's South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting. During the public comment period a person by the name of "Levi" phoned in and spent his four minutes of allowed time spreading hate against Jewish people.