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Employees from Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood Mountain Resorts participated in various conservation and maintenance projects around Lake Tahoe Saturday as part of EpicPromise Week.

Heavenly employees were at South Tahoe Middle School and Sierra House Elementary on South Shore on September working on several different projects, and kirkwood joined Cal Trout in the Kirkwood Meadow.

As the world changes around South Lake Tahoe, Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC) is evolving to meet the new demands of education and the student body. As there is a decline in community college enrollment across the country, LTCC is being creative in recruitment of students to the campus and investing in not only the environment, but in removing barriers many have in getting a secondary education.

That was the message during Lake Tahoe Community College President Jeff DeFranco's first State of the College Address on Thursday.

In South Lake Tahoe on Saturday, September 16 after Sample the Sierra, a new community event will be held to benefit Tahoe Youth & Family Services.

Local Art After Dark at the Benko Art Gallery will feature live music, live art, dance performances, local food and drinks from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Tickets are $20 at the door and $10 for Sample the Sierra ticket holders and locals (will need to show wristband or local ID at the door. Locals include Tahoe basin and extends to Placerville and Carson/Reno).

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 Shore. There may be some missing calls due to sheriff's logs not being completed at time of story.

Some of those recently added to last week's log:

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The following 90 businesses took out business licenses with the City of South Lake Tahoe during the month of July, 2017 (spelling of the business names is taken directly from the City's website):

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4-SEASONS DECOR
A STERLING AFFAIR
ARTIST TO YOU - METAL ART
BAKER HOME PRODUCTS
CALVIN LEE CLOTHING STORES
DESERT PARADISE CLOTHING
GERALD DEWEY SALES
HENERY'S NIGHT LIGHTS
PS DESIGN
ROYAL OIL MFG
STEVEN LN PROPERTY
SWEET FEATHER
SWEET JEAN'S NUTTY GOURMET
THOMAS PHOTO ARTS

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4LEAF INC
KOA ARCHITECTS
OUR ART'S DESIRE LLC

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CLASSIC CUT LAWN CARE

The Kiwanis Club of Tahoe Sierra is holding their 15th annual SeptOberfest on Thursday, September 21, 2017 at MontBleu Casino Resort starting at 6:00 p.m.

There will a German buffet, Biergarten, wine tasting, music, dancing, both silent and live auctions, along with their famous envelope sales and stein holding contest.

Discount tickets are now available for $45 until September 17. After that, prices go up to $50 per person.

Online tickets are available here: www.tahoesierrakiwanis.org

The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for the Lake Tahoe area from 2:00 p.m. Wednesday to 8:00 p.m. Thursday.

Thunderstorms with potentially dangerous lightening strikes are forecast along with heavy rain and possible flash flooding.

A negatively tilted trough is setting the stage for a widespread outbreak of thunderstorms this afternoon through Thursday from the northern Sierra and far western Nevada to the Oregon border.

Expect a hot day in South Lake Tahoe with highs forecast near 90. High pressure will provide unseasonably hot temperatures and light winds into the early part of the work week. Areas of wildfire smoke and haze will occur as well. Moisture will increase starting Monday with showers and thunderstorms spreading north across the Sierra and western Nevada by midweek.

Here is the forecast from the National Weather Service in Reno:

Today - A 20 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Widespread haze. Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. East wind around 5 mph.

The following are the 147 incidents the South Lake Tahoe Fire Rescue and Cal-Tahoe JPA ambulances responded to from August 9-20, 2017.

August 9
00:59 - 1100 block of Wildwood Ave - Hazmat release investigation w/ no hazmat
08:42 - 900 block of Turnback Tr - EMS call, excluding vehicle accident with injury
09:55 - 1800 block of Lake Tahoe Blvd - EMS call, excluding vehicle accident with injury
10:22 - 1400 block of Herbert Ave - EMS: Dispatched & cancelled en route
12:53 - On Mule Deer Cir at Lake Tahoe Blvd - EMS call, excluding vehicle accident with injury

The UCCE Master Gardeners of Lake Tahoe are holding their Fall plant sale at Sierra House Elementary on Saturday, Sept. 9 from 9:00 a.m. to noon. They are selling over 800 native and perennial plants.

Since the sale is taking place at Sierra House, what better time than to take tours of the school's grow domes?

The students will be selling their garden art as well.

Watch demonstrations and learn planting tips from the professionals of UCCE Master Gardeners.

Sierra House Elementary is located at 1709 Remington Trail in South Lake Tahoe.

Join the ninth annual Great Sierra River Cleanup in conjunction with California Coastal Cleanup day on September 16 starting at 8:00 a.m. Join hundreds of volunteers this day in cleaning up the Lake Tahoe region.

This year, the locations for clean up are:

Lakeview Commons/El Dorado Beach/Regan Beach — led by Clean Tahoe
Zephyr Cove/Zephyr Shoals — led by the League to Save Lake Tahoe
Upper Truckee River from Elks Club to Highway 50 (cleanup from the water – must have your own boat or flotation device) — led by Clean Tahoe
Upper Truckee River at Cove East — led by Clean Tahoe

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A strong high pressure system over the Sierra and Great Basin will bring dry weather and warm temperatures through the middle of next week. While Reno may be breaking records, Lake Tahoe is expected to be just under theirs though well above average.

The system is expected to weaken before the Labor Day weekend.

Here is the forecast from the National Weather Service in Reno. Average temps and record high and lows will be in ( ).

Today at the 21st annual Lake Tahoe Summit, the creation of a new partnership of state, federal, environmental, industry, and research representatives working together to protect Lake Tahoe and the surrounding central Sierra Nevada was announced. The effort, the Tahoe-Central Sierra Initiative, is focused on restoring the health and resilience of the area’s forests and watersheds. It builds on the legacy of work that has been done to “Keep Tahoe Blue,” and a variety of activities already underway in the Central Sierra landscape.

Thunderstorms remain a possibility each day through the middle of next week
starting today according to the National Weather Service in Reno. Storms this afternoon will again be mainly over the Sierra, potentially becoming more widespread this weekend into early next week but predictability remains about average. Flash flooding will become more of a threat late this weekend and into early next week. Temperatures through the weekend will remain above normal with weak afternoon breezes each afternoon.

The forecast from the National Weather Service in Reno:

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West returns to Dangberg Historic Park on Saturday, August 26 at 11:00 am as the park’s final major event of the 2017 Dangberg Summer Festival.

The show features Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley, the Pony Express, The Mayfield Gang and the 1st Nevada Cavalry. The Douglas High School Marching Band and western singer-songwriter Krista Jenkins return for a second year to draw the audience back in time to the frontier of the American West.

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For 20 years, every August we’ve paused to reflect on our collective commitment to Lake Tahoe’s restoration at the Lake Tahoe Summit. This year, with U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein hosting the event, the issue of climate change will be front and center. Climate change poses incredible challenges for Tahoe, affecting not only the health of its famously cold, clear waters, but the health of its expansive forests and what is to become of our $5 billion outdoor recreation-based economy.

Bill Morgan, who once headed up both Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and U.S. Forest Service in Lake Tahoe, will share 30 years of intriguing stories of what happened in Lake Tahoe from 1965-1989 at the August 24 U.C Davis TERC talk in Incline Village.

In Bill Morgan's book, Morgan's Tahoe, he talks of those turbulent times in Tahoe's history. With his jobs he was caught up in the turbulence himself. His firsthand knowledge of those happenings has given him a unique perspective of Tahoe in those days. Most of these tales are little known by any except those who were involved themselves.

The California Highway Patrol released their report today of the July 29 three-car collision on US50 east of Sierra at Tahoe Road that sent one to Renown on Care Flight and another to Barton, both with multiple injuries.

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 Shore. There may be some missing calls due to sheriff's logs not being completed at time of story.

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4:34 a.m. - Vacation Rental Ordinance - Colusa St - VHR NOISE COMPLAINT

10:03 a.m. - Coroner Case - Tahoe Paradise - 55-YEAR OLD MALE DECEASED

A 20-acre brush fire in Carson City on Thursday was caused by fireworks, according to fire officials. The fire is now fully contained.

At 3:50 p.m. August 3, fire broke out behind the Greenhouse Nursery there was immediate response from Carson City, East Fork Fire Protection, Tahoe Douglas Fire, Truckee Meadows, Bureau of Land Management, and U.S. Forest Service. Aircraft also flew in from Sierra Front Interagency in Minden.

Author David C. Antonucci will speak on his book Fairest Picture: Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe at the Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park on Saturday, August 12, at 10:00 am.

In 1861, Samuel Clemens, the man who would become Mark Twain, hiked to Lake Tahoe to stake a claim for a timber ranch. He spent many blissful days on the Lake but carelessly allowed his campfire to escape, creating a spectacular wildfire. He later wrote about his experiences in his 1872 memoir, Roughing It.

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Lake Tahoe Unified School District (LTUSD) officials didn't have to look far in getting a replacement for Ryan Galles, outgoing Sierra House Elementary principal.

South Lake Tahoe native Karin Holmes will take the school's top spot on an interim basis beginning August 7.

"It is very exciting," Karin told South Tahoe Now. "What they are doing at Sierra House is amazing! With the garden and health and fitness focus there is no moss growing at the school."

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE - The following is a recap of activity the South Lake Tahoe Police Department responded to 517 calls between July 11 - July 24, 2017.

Calls Resulting in Arrests/Citations:

July 11
12:09 p.m. - Driving on a suspended/revoked license - 800 block of Tallac Ave
2:06 p.m. - Drug Offense in the 2600 block of Bertha Ave
7:15 p.m. - Drunk in Public in the 3400 block of Lake Tahoe Blvd
9:54 p.m. - Warrant in the 1100 block of Ski Run Blvd

July 12
2:11 p.m. - Fraud in the 800 block of Tahoe Keys Blvd

he Sierra Nevada are not stranger to earthquakes, and recent swarms of quakes in the Carson Valley, Mammoth Lakes and Donner Lake are not out of the ordinary.

Overnight, a few of those earthquakes hit in around the North Shroe of Lake Tahoe.