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LAKE TAHOE, Nev./Calif. - The Tahoe Women's Community Fund (TWCF) celebrated its mission, the community, and nonprofits at its 8th annual Grants Gala on May 24 at the 4-H Camp at Stateline.

With 25 nonprofits in attendance and over 100 members, TWCF celebrated all the amazing organizations, their uplifting stories, and the funding its members provided. The 13 nonprofits who received $100,000 collectively in 2022, presented their stories, while 12 other nonprofits were there to receive their funding for 2023.

Those nonprofits awarded funds in the past year:

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.

May 18 - May 24, 2023

5/18

No Reports

5/19

01:20 SUSP VEH STOP - Officer initiated activity at Prospector Trl, South Lake Tahoe. Disposition: CHECKS CLEAR.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The last time Justin Foskett and his wife Nikki opened a business it was the day COVID shut down businesses around Lake Tahoe. Even with that challenge, their Bare Roots Coffee Roasting Company in South Lake Tahoe has been going strong.

Now, they have opened a second local business, the Beach House on Lakeside Beach, and while it's been a hectic few weeks getting operations ready to go, things are off to a good start just in time for the holiday weekend.

I have a hit-and-miss relationship with a certain stylish Swedish carmaker. Volvos often offer understated, Bauhaus styling that looks modern without any effort, and lavishly luxurious interiors that can rival any other competing brand in their space. They're not without issue, though, with a majority of Volvos tested exhibiting wonky electronics that are unacceptably unreliable in 2023, such as doors not locking, center display lockups, maps freezing, and buzzing speakers. Luckily, this XC60 showed none of that, so I was able to enjoy at its full strength.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A new partnership between Lake Tahoe Community College's Rising Scholars Program (RSP) for justice-involved students and the youth detention facility El Centro High School in Sacramento has resulted in its first community college graduate.

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – As temperatures start to warm and snow begins to melt, a new crop of bear cubs are emerging from winter dens with their mothers. Yearlings, which were born last year, are also on the move. Some are still with their mother bears, some are solo after separating before denning, and some may be showing signs of disease.

Cubs of the year, born around the beginning of February, are sticking close to their mothers, and learning survival skills in the wild to prepare them for living on their own in about one year.

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – There are a limited number of pier allocations allowed every two years at Lake Tahoe, and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) will be accepting lottery entries for those allocations between June 1 and June 30, 2023.

The 2018 Shoreline Plan lifted a longstanding moratorium on new shorezone structures and placed a cap on the number of private piers and buoys allowed at Lake Tahoe. A maximum of 128 private piers and 1,486 private moorings will be allowed along the shore of Lake Tahoe, with allotments awarded through periodic lotteries until the cap is met.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - There will be a Memorial Day Ceremony on Monday, May 29 at 11 a.m. at the Happy Homestead Cemetery. The Stella Van Dyke Johnson American Legion Post 795 of South Lake Tahoe invites everyone to join the American Legion, American Legion Auxiliary, and Sons of the American Legion at the ceremony.

The cemetery is located at1261 Johnson Blvd. in South Lake Tahoe.

Immediately following the ceremony, the public is invited to join post members for light refreshments and live music by Cash Only at the American

Summer in Tahoe means warmer weather and wildflowers, but it also means more cars driving around the lake. Take Care Tahoe is taking on traffic safety by distributing free yard signs to the public that encourage drivers to “Take it Slow, Tahoe.”

The message of “Take it Slow, Tahoe” captures the attention of drivers and creatively incorporates artwork to remind them why driving safely is so important: to protect people and animals. The signs are part of the larger campaign that launched in the summer of 2022.

UPDATE 8:30AM TUESDAY: There is now one-way controlled traffic through the stretch on SR88.

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State Route 88 was closed Monday night between Picketts Junction and Crystal Springs East after a rapidly deteriorating roadway was discovered. There is no estimated time for the reopening of the closure according to the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).

For current conditions on the road, check https://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - A Mental Health First Aid for Fire and EMS (https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/population-focused-modules/fire-and-ems/) course was hosted by Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC) on Friday, May 19. The class was offered for free to local firefighters and EMS personnel as well as LTCC students and family members of first responders. Twenty community members attended the event taught by Stephanie Carlson, a MHFA instructor from the Behavioral Health Division of El Dorado County Health & Human Services Agency.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - A chance of thunderstorms hangs around South Lake Tahoe through the week ahead. There will be a decrease in chances on Monday and Tuesday, with chances increasing mid-late week. It will be overall cooler this week.

While the afternoon convection and cloud cover aren't what everyone has been waiting through the long winter for, they have been reducing snowmelt and resultant flows on some rivers.

ZEPHYR COVE, Nev. - The Whittell High School girls' track and field team has brought back the State Champion trophy from the NIAA 1a State Track Championship in Henderson, Nev. Through 18 events, the young women collected 91 points with first-place finishes in the 4x100 and 4x200 relays and long jump.

Logan Robertson from the boys' team was a one-man show at state, coming home with three first-place finishes in the 800-, 1600-, and 3200-meter runs.

The finals for both women and men at NIAA 1a Friday-Saturday:

Women - 1A - Team Rankings - 18 Events Scored
1- George Whittell HS 91

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The 4th quarter sales tax report for South Lake Tahoe shows receipts from October-December 2022 were above those of the prior year by 6.3 percent. Excluding reporting adjustments, receipts for the period were up 8.5 percent.

While many areas of the state saw a decline in dollars spent on transportation, the City had a healthy increase, according to its quarterly report from the finance department. The severe weather likely caused the increase in spending on construction materials and supplies sold by outlets in the business-industry group.

MEYERS, Calif. - Music in the Park returns this summer with one concert a month in Tahoe Paradise Park.

The free concerts are hosted by Meyers Mountain Market with help from donations and sponsors. They start at 5 p.m. and end at 8 p.m.

The lineup:

June 23
Bison - Acoustic String Band

July 28
Mescalito - Mountain Rock N' Roll

August 11
Jelly Bread - Desert Twang, Urban Funk & Rock

September 1
Boot Juice - River Rock & Americana

Tahoe Paradise Park is located at 1011 E. San Bernardino Avenue.

Lake Tahoe Unified School District (LTUSD) English Learner Services is excited to share a progress report on this year’s work in support of students learning English. This work continues as part of our districtwide systems for serving multilingual learners and in response to input from students, staff, families, and our community.

Accomplishments this year include:

Protected time at every districtwide for students to receive targeted instruction developing their academic English; a secondary focus on removing barriers to enrollment in honors and advanced placement work.

The rest of the county is currently celebrating National Bike Month, but with the epic winter and snow still remaining on many trails, Tahoe Bike Month will start June 1.

The Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition is planning a full calendar of events and is going for a record number of registrations for Tahoe Bike Month.

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.

May 11 - May 17, 2023

5/11

09:58 CIVIL INCIDENT - Officer initiated activity at Pioneer Trl, South Lake Tahoe. Disposition: ADVISED.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Join Bob Sweatt as he shares rare flowers from his 2022 Wildflower Big Year sponsored by TINS, the Tahoe Institute of Natural Science, at the South Lake Tahoe Library on May 30.

This free event is presented by Friends of the Library.

Lake Tahoe is an area abundant with wildflower species, including many rare and endangered species. Bob's presentation will include many rare as well as uncommon species that you will not normally see on your wildflower walk.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Cheers to six years! Come celebrate South Lake Brewing Company's sixth anniversary on Saturday, May 27. The celebration starts at 12 p.m. and continues until 9 p.m. with the release of new anniversary beers, live music by Miki Rae and the Ash Relics Trio, food from Get Rad Pizza, specialty merchandise for sale, and more.

Kids and dogs are always welcome at South Lake Brewing Company, so bring the whole family down for the celebration!

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - One thousand two hundred American flags were presented to Happy Homestead Cemetery Thursday by John Keeley and Troy Stromoen of the Rno Vet Center and Dan Browne of the Lake Tahoe Veterans Alliance.

These flags will be used to honor those who have fallen in service to the country, deceased Veterans, and living military veterans.

"The cost of freedom is steep, and all those who answered the call, a new flag will be placed where they now rest," said Dan Browne, president of the Lake Tahoe Veterans Alliance. "All gave some - some gave all."

ZEPHYR COVE, Nev. - The George Whittell High School (GWS) boys and girls track and field teams are well represented at the NIAA 1a State Championships in Henderson Nevada this week. Freshman Logan Robertson earned a triple-gold at the Northern Regionals last week as he swept the top spot in three distance races, as well as a medal in the high jump.

Edwin Atwood Winslow of South Lake Tahoe passed away on May 10, 2023. He was born to Dorothy Jean Cramblett and Edwin Winslow Sr. on March 5, 1958, in Stockton, Calif. He moved to South Lake Tahoe as a young boy and made Lake Tahoe his home for 55 years, making him a docent of Tahoe, where he would take family and friends on tours. He could name every landmark and knew all the special places to take them. He attended Tahoe Valley Elementary School, South Tahoe Middle School, and graduated from South Tahoe High School (STHS) in 1976.

MEYERS, Calif. - The Meyers Mountain Market is opening for the season on Wednesday, June 7. The market is held in Tahoe Paradise Park on the banks of the Upper Truckee River. It is held on Wednesdays until September 13 from 3 p.m.-7:30 p.m., rain or shine.

Vendors offer fresh and locally grown fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs & honey. Fresh-baked goods, flowers, and arts & crafts are also available for purchase. Enjoy dinner at one of the food trucks and eat under the pine trees, on the sandy shore of Lake Baron, or on the beautiful banks of the river.