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Posted by jeffpelline on November 11, 2021 · Leave a Comment
The FOREST FIRE Exhibition at the Truckee Community Recreation Center is winning rave reviews. In this immersive exhibit, visitors take a 13,000-year journey through the captivating story of the Sierra Nevada Forest’s relationship with fire and the surprising and essential role humans play within it. (Image: “Dao Lulelek” by Judith Lowry) They walk through a […]
Posted by jeffpelline on August 21, 2019 · Leave a Comment
WITH A MOTTO “BASE CAMP for a big life,” Truckee and the surrounding area offers exceptional outdoor adventures, shopping, dining, and arts and culture. The town is booming too. Examples include the Truckee Railyard project, which is going to double the size of the 150-year-old downtown core. The project includes new housing, artist lofts, retail, […]
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Posted by jeffpelline on August 7, 2019 · Leave a Comment
LEXIE LIMITLESS An adventurous local woman — 21-year-old Alexis Alford of Nevada City — this spring announced she had become the youngest person to travel to every sovereign nation. “I traveled to all 196 countries by 21 years old. My ultimate goal is to show people that the world is not a scary place and […]
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Posted by jeffpelline on July 24, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Here are some of our favorite spots for martinis and craft cocktails in Grass Valley, Auburn and Truckee: GOLDEN ERA LOUNGE Golden Era serves perfect hand-crafted cocktails (with names such as “Miner’s Punch,” “Gold Rush Sour” or “Nevada City Swizzle”), as well as craft beers, local wines and non-alcoholic soda fountain drinks. Weekend music includes […]
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Posted by jeffpelline on July 23, 2019 · Leave a Comment
SPRING IS A TIME TO REGENERATE, and our region is experiencing its own growth and renewal — throughout the Sierra Foothills and in the High Sierra. New restaurants and cafes are opening, award-winning wineries and craft breweries are expanding, and the arts and culture scene is booming. Our region is unique in California as a […]
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Posted by jeffpelline on February 24, 2019 · Leave a Comment
WinterWonderGrass The 5th annual WinterWonderGrass returns to Squaw Valley March 29-31, featuring over 20 bluegrass and roots artists on three heated tent stages and one outdoor main stage. Enhancing the music will be tastings of California local brews, ciders and eats. Headliners include Greensky Bluegrass, Trampled by Turtles, Leftover Salmon and the Sam Bush Band. […]
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Posted by jeffpelline on February 23, 2019 · Leave a Comment
For the 2018-19 winter season, the resorts have made significant capital investments to enhance their snowmaking, grooming, lifts, snowboard and ski school operations, resort facilities and more. In addition to skiing and snowboarding, Truckee visitors can participate in a variety of unique outdoor resort activities. • Go Disco Tubing at Squaw Valley during select times […]
Posted by jeffpelline on February 23, 2019 · Leave a Comment
TRUCKEE IS ON A ROLL. IT RECENTLY WAS NAMED one of the “coolest, under the radar” ski towns by The Wall Street Journal. “Unsurprisingly, thanks to its location, this old logging town has morphed into a sporty tourist center over the years,” The Journal reported. “These days it’s better equipped to wine and dine those […]
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Posted by jeffpelline on November 1, 2018 · Leave a Comment
THORTON WILDER’S CLASSIC “OUR TOWN”chronicles life in a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. Like the fictional Grover’s Corners in Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, our region’s small towns — Loomis and Lincoln in the valley, Auburn, Grass Valley and Nevada City in the foothills, and Truckee in the High Sierra — […]
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Posted by jeffpelline on November 1, 2018 · Leave a Comment
ONCE THE EPICENTER OF RETAIL, America’s malls are struggling: “An Ode to Shopping Malls — farewell, pleasure palaces of days past,” The New York Times reported. “A historical anachronism,” the New Yorker declared. “The culture that spawned satire like Mallrats seems increasingly dated, ever cartoonish,” The Guardian concluded. Our historic downtowns across America — including […]
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