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As soon as the snow started to fly in Hope Valley, David Beck had the feeling that the short-lived "retirement" lifestyle he had been tolerating was going to be over very soon if he could have his way. He had the feeling that all he needed was to recover a little bit from his new knee replacement, and soon he could be out again mushing behind a full set of huskies on the snowy trails of Hope Valley.

Combining the world's best musicians with the world's best snow conditions, the 2012 SnowGlobe Festival in South Lake Tahoe is a one-of-a-kind experience that offers the ultimate fusion: music and mountains.
The second SnowGlobe Music Festival will be held on the Lake Tahoe Community College campus in South Lake Tahoe over three days, Saturday through New Year's Eve.

Bread & Broth is very thankful that for the second time this year, Lake Tahoe Community College administrative staff members sponsored a Bread & Broth "Adopt A Day of Nourishment." Its $250 donatio...

Lake Tahoe Community College TRiO Specialist Anna Lee was on maternity leave when she heard about the alleged murder of Lyra Fisher. The news of her former student's death hit her hard, and she cou...

Anna Lee works at changing students’ lives everyday as the TRiO-SSS program specialist at Lake Tahoe Community College. One of Lee’s students, Lyra B. Fisher, was tragically murdered this summer, the apparent victim of domestic violence. This month Lee decided to start a scholarship in Fisher’s name with the Lake Tahoe Community College Foundation.

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The City of South Lake Tahoe and Lake Tahoe Community College Connect Community Education are sponsoring the Renovator, Repair, Painter (RRP) course for local construction workers. The Lead Safe Worker 8-hour training for Renovators, Repair and Painters is being offered at LTCC campus on Saturday, December 8th from 8am-5pm.

The cost to attend the training is $50 and up to two workers from each local company are welcome to participate.

LTCC Chorus and the Tahoe Choir present: "My Favorite Things" in two performances. The first is on Friday, November 30 at 7:30pm in the Duke Theatre, Lake Tahoe Community College and Sunday, December 2 at 3 p.m. at St Theresa's Catholic Church
Tickets: $10 for adults, $8 for students & seniors, children under 5 are free.
For more information, call (530) 541-2635 or (530) 541-4660.

A steady stream of voters trickled into the precinct 502 polling place in the Aspen Room at the Lake Tahoe Community College on Tuesday for the final few hours of voting in the 2012 election. Ou...

The Lake Tahoe Community College Theatre Arts Department is proud to present an hilarious evening of theatre with the duet, “Lone Star” and “Laundry and Bourbon,” two companion one-act comedies by renowned playwright, James McLure. The production is directed by Susan Boulanger.

Performances are November 15, 16, 17 at 8:00 p.m, and November 18 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $10 General Admission, $7.00 Seniors, $5.00 Students with valid I.D., and children under 13; free for veterans and active military. Children under 6 will not be allowed in the theatre.

Two US 50/South Shore Community Revitalization Project workshops are planned in the coming days. The first will be Tuesday, Oct. 30 from 5-7 p.m. at Lake Tahoe Community College, Aspen Room. Another meeting is planned for Nov. 7 from 1-3 p.m. at Embassy Suites Lake Tahoe, Tallac Ballroom.
The South Shore Community Revitalization Projection is being considered to promote increased safety, efficient traffic flow and environmental and visual improvements along Highway 50. For more information go here.

Bread & Broth's "Adopt A Day of Nourishment" on July 30 was generously sponsored by instructional and administrative members of Lake Tahoe Community College. In addition to a monetary donation of $...

On Nov. 2 at 7 pm Bona Fide Books will launch Brooklyn poet Lexa Hillyer’s award-winning collection “Acquainted with the Cold” at a reading at the Lake Tahoe Community College’s Writers’ Series. The event is free and open to the public.

“Acquainted with the Cold” is Hillyer’s first collection, and it won Bona Fide’s 2011 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize, offered annually in honor of the local artist who died in 2009. The book is concerned with the intersection of nature and city, and takes the reader on an invigorating ode to the seasons.

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Help Yourself: A Poetry Workshop with Janet Smith will be on Oct. 20, 2-5 p.m. Smith is the award-winning poet and author of "All of the Sudden Nothing Happened" and poetry teacher at Lake Tahoe Community College. She applies poetry as a therapeutic means for self-improvement. Enjoy an inspiring session on honing your craft. $25; space is limited, reserve now by going here.

As soon as you enter the Duke Theater Foyer Gallery at the Lake Tahoe Community College, your eye strays to the wall where a series or larger-than-life figure paintings flood the corner with the...

When you see these elite climbers in action, you get a taste of their endless pursuit of adventure. You won’t believe some of the footage featured at the Reel Rock Film Tour playing September 21, 2012 at 6:30pm at the Lake Tahoe Community College hosted by our favorite local adventurer, Todd Offenbacher.
From the wildest climbing by Chris Sharma in Spain, to Alex Honnold conquering the Yosemite Triple in just under 19 hours he climbs Mt. Watkins, El Cap, and Half Dome, 95 percent of it free solo.

Saturday is the Great Sierra River Cleanup with more than 11,200 volunteers joining together to scour watersheds throughout the Sierra Nevada. Hundreds of community groups will spread across 22 counties and 1,052 river miles to pull appliances, cigarette butts, beverage cans, baby diapers, tires, furniture, and more from the rivers and streams that supply the State of California with 65 percent of its water. This effort, in partnership with the California Coastal Cleanup Day, serves to promote good stewardship on all of our waterways, from the source to the sea.

The latest Tahoe Project interview is with Leona Allen, a lifelong Tahoe resident, a Lake Valley Fire Protection District firefighter and a founder of the Lake Tahoe Basin Fire Academy. Hosted by Michelle Sweeney, Allen shares insight into wildfire preparedness, her family's experience of loss in the Angora fire and the success of the Fire Academy where she is among the program faculty at Lake Tahoe Community College.

Live at Lakeview Summer Concert Series at South Lake Tahoe kicks off the Labor Day weekend early on Thursday with some zesty Latin flavor featuring two local Latino bands. Los Barranqueños Del Norte will start off the evening with some Mariachi music followed by the headliner, Tahoe Musical, which will play a cross-pollination of traditional Cumbian (Columbian Salsa) and Del norte styles. If your salsa moves lack in the heat department, organizers will have you covered.

The Tahoe Prosperity Center has announced the appointment of Mone´K. Haen to the new position of CEO. The Tahoe Prosperity Center was formed in response to the Lake Tahoe Basin Prosperity Plan developed in 2010 and is the result of an unprecedented coalition of government, private, and philanthropic stakeholders in the Tahoe Basin. The naming of a CEO is a major step in the TPC's mission to promote regional sustainability through economic vitality, environmental stewardship and healthy communities in and around the Lake Tahoe Basin.

Services aimed at getting students ready for college are available for up to 500 South Tahoe Middle School and South Tahoe High School this school year through a Lake Tahoe Community College federally funded grant program.

The Department of Education grant that started in the tail end of last school year consists of $230,000 a year for five years to provide services to 500 low-income, first generation college-bound students at the middle and high schools.

Many of us take advantage of all Lake Tahoe has to offer, including hiking, biking, camping, skiing and much more, but I have come across several members of our community recently who feel as though they don’t know how to exactly go about enjoying these things. So, at Barton Health, we asked ourselves … what are things South Lake Tahoe has to offer that people could enjoy more?

For adults and children looking to hone their Spanish skills this summer, the search ends in South Lake Tahoe. Next month, the Lake Tahoe Community College will hold its 19th annual Intensive Spani...

UPDATED: As Lake Tahoe continues to earn the respectable distinction of having bicycle-friendly communities, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency will host experts from two well-established cities to discuss ways the basin can improve its trails and paths.
The TRPA has invited bicycle community planners from Portland, Oregon and Park City, Utah for a community speaker panel today, Thursday, July 26, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Lake Tahoe Community College in the Board Room. A similar speaker panel was held on Wednesday at Kings Beach.

Putting a cork in it could land one lucky celebrity golfer a quarter of a million dollars and a local college foundation a bundle of cash during the American Century Championship at Lake Tahoe.