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DOUGLAS COUNTY, Nev. - It is time for the 111th annual Carson Valley Days celebration and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) urges attendees and those traveling through Minden and Gardnerville to use extra precautions on the road. The event will be held from June 11 to June 13.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - El Dorado County Sheriff's Office responds to calls throughout the county. The following are calls that 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.

Last Week's Log: http://southtahoenow.com/story/05/31/2021/el-dorado-county-sheriffs-report

Added to that report

5/31

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Hope Lutheran Church is holding a parking lot Craft Fair on Saturday, June 19 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Everyone is invited to join in the summer's first craft fair and enjoy local vendors, along with hotdogs and nachos.

Space is still available for vendors too. Contact the church at 530.541.1975 or by emailing them at pastordanahlc@gmail.com.

Hope Lutheran Church is located at the Y, 930 Julie Lane, South Lake Tahoe.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Low pressure dropping south along the West Coast through mid-week Wednesday will bring windy conditions each day with the Red Flag Warning continuing until 9:00 p.m. Monday. There is also a Lake Wind Advisory from noon to 9:00 p.m. Monday.

After a week that saw several record highs, a cooling trend will continue with highs dropping to 10-15 degrees below average by Wednesday. Dry weather will prevail, except a few showers are possible late Wednesday in northeast California and northwest Nevada. Breezy and mild conditions may persist into next weekend.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Starting June 10, in-person meetings will resume in the South Lake Tahoe City Council chambers for both the council and the Planning Commission.

Thursday, June 10 is the Plannng Commission meeting starting at 3:00 p.m., and City Council follows with its first meeting back in-person on Tuesday, June 15 for an evening meeting.

Plannng Commission has an agenda posted and City Council wll post its agenda at the end of the week. For agendas, visit HERE.

Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see two famous Nevada characters come to life in a Chautauqua about the great cowboy artist and author Will James and his wife Alice on Sunday, June 26 at the CVIC Hall in Minden.

Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak signed into law Friday three bills that directly affect Nevada's indigenous tribes and communities, including providing free tuition for native students, outlawing sundown sirens and racially offensive mascots, and transfers management for the Stewart Indian School museum and cultural center.

The bill signing was held Friday at the campus of the Stewart Indian School, and Gov. Sisolak was joined by tribal elders as well as legislative representatives.

The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California is looking for enthusiastic, motivated, flexible, diverse candidates with outstanding customer service skills to fill positions at Meeks Bay Resort.

Meeks Bay Resort Worker
$15.60 an hour
- High School Diploma or GED
- six months of housekeeping or maintenance experience, or a combination of education and experience

Transportation will be provided from Gardnerville, NV to Meeks Bay.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - PABA, the South Tahoe High Performing & Visual Arts Booster Association, is holding a fundraiser on Friday, June 4 at Lake Tahoe AleWorx in the Crossing at Tahoe Valley.

A portion of all sales starting at 5:00 p.m. will go to support PABA so they can continue to support the art, photography, music, digital arts, and theater programs at South Tahoe High School

Enjoy a beautiful summer night on the patio, some delicious food, and support the arts.

AleWorx is at 2050 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - El Dorado County has announced 8 new cases of COVID-19 since yesterday: 0 from Pollock Pines/Camino/Kyburz, 0 in El Dorado Hills, 1 in Diamond Springs/El Dorado, 2 in North County, 3 in Greater Placerville, 0 in Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue, 0 in South County, 1 in Lake Tahoe region. Awaiting address confirmation from today's count: 1. Total now awaiting address confirmation: 88.

The first Tahoe Regional Trails Plan is being developed to improve recreation at Tahoe by connecting and improving the network of dirt trails in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) announced today there is a public survey to aid in the development of the new plan, and the timing is perfect ahead of National Trails Day on Saturday, June 5.

Paradise Park’s inaugural ‘Return to Paradise’ will be held on Saturday, June 5 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the park, located at 1011 E. San Bernardino Avenue in Meyers.

It is free to attend. Highlights include a children’s treasure hunt, food trucks, live music, a raffle, and a silent auction. Parking for the event will be at the Lake Tahoe Environmental Science Magnet School, 1095 E. San Bernardino Avenue in Meyers.

Generous Tahoe-area sponsors have donated dozens of valuable raffle prizes for the event, with some exceptional items being presented at the event in a silent auction.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - El Dorado County has transferred some previously identified cases out of the county so it appears there were no new COVID-19 cases today. There have been two, both people in the 18-49-year-old range, one from Placerville and one from the Cameron Park area. The overall change since yesterday: -1 - 0 from Pollock Pines/Camino/Kyburz, 0 in El Dorado Hills, total cases: 0 in Diamond Springs/El Dorado, 0 in North County, 1 in Greater Placerville, 1 in Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue, 0 in South County, 0 in Lake Tahoe region.

3:34 p.m. Update: Johannsen was found by Washoe County Deputies on the Thunderbird Lodge property at around 2:15 p.m. this afternoon. He was walking on the main roadway, less than 50 yards away from the main house. Deputies detained Johannsen and released him to the NDOC.

WASHOE COUNTY, Nev. - An inmate assigned to minimum-security work detail on the east shore of Lake Tahoe has become separated from his work crew. According to the Washoe County Sheriff's Office, Ray Johannsen was with the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) fire crew just west of Memorial Point.

LAKE TAHOE, Nev. - Construction on the new Tahoe South Events Center is underway with more than 50,000 cubic yards of dirt being excavated from the site at MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa. Normally this much dirt is transported out of the Lake Tahoe Basin which not only adds to the construction costs but also adds miles driven on local roads and more emissions sent into the air.

The dirt from the events center didn't have to make a long trip. In cooperation with Edgewood Tahoe and Tahoe Beach Club, the dirt is being repurposed for landscaping features and fill dirt.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Tragedy broke out in the Agua Dulce fire station Tuesday at 10:53 a.m. when an off-duty firefighter entered the building and starting shooting, killing a firefighter and wounding a captain.

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) will be conducting a car seat check-up event at their South Lake Tahoe office on Saturday, June 12 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Call for an appointment at 530-577-1001 and walk-ups are welcome.

The current law states child passengers must ride in either a car seat or booster seat until the age of eight years old and the only exception to the law is if the child is 4 feet 9 inches in height.

EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. - Many businesses in the county may see reductions to their assessed value due to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, the El Dorado County Assessor Karl Weiland announced today.

Business property does not fall under the Prop. 13 umbrella and is required to be assessed at the fair market value as of each lien date. Under Prop 13, real property is required to be assessed at the lower of the Prop 13 trended value, or the fair market value per Prop. 8, as of the lien date of January 1st.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Revive Coffee & Wine has been a popular spot in South Lake Tahoe for coffee, food, wine, and ambiance since opening in June of 2016, and now there is a new addition to the Al Tahoe business.

The Barrel Room is opening adjacent to Revive and celebrates Tahoe's history along with a full line-up of wines, six local area beers on tap, and a small plate menu. Months in the making, The Barrel has been hand-crafted as nicely as its extensive wine and beer list.

Dust off those shoes and join the Tahoe Youth & Family Services Carson Valley Days 5k run-jog-walk on Saturday, June 12 at the beginning of the annual parade, the perfect time to have fun, wear a costume, and support a worthy cause. This is the first in-person run the non-profit that serves South Lake Tahoe and Douglas County has been able to host since the pandemic began.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - High pressure will continue to strengthen over the region through mid-week, building heat as high temperatures rise several degrees each day as an anomalously strong upper-level ridge moves onshore from the eastern
Pacific and builds over the Western US. Record highs are possible in South Lake Tahoe through Wednesday. Isolated thunderstorms are possible Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, with temperatures declining late week.

The South Lake Tahoe forecast from the National Weather Service in Reno:

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - By June 15 it will be 15 months since the pandemic hit and altered how we do business and go about our daily lives. June 15 will lead us on a path to normalcy as the State of California fully reopens the economy and moves beyond the Blueprint for a Safer Economy, the guidebook used in the state through COVID-19.

But what does that mean?

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - If all goes according to plan, the second South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting of the month n June on the 15th will be held in person in the council chambers. It will be the first meeting held at City Hall since the pandemic started over a year ago, and it will be an evening meeting.

They will follow the Planning Commission who has a June 10 public in-person meeting scheduled.

On June 1, City Council will meet remotely at 9:00 a.m. Their agenda includes:

As we enter the season of outdoor recreation and barbeques, South Lake Tahoe Fire Rescue reminds the public of a California state fire code that restricts the use of charcoal barbeques in multi-family units.

Single homes and duplexes can have a charcoal barbeque but apartments and condominiums may not have open flame cooking devices on decks or balconies unless they are protected by an automatic sprinkler system.