Feel Good Story

Truckee middle-schooler Sadie Dorst is on the path to a blossoming acting career. She’s now appearing in a new coming-of-age short film called Wait, shot in Reno.

In the February Feel Good story, North Tahoe resident Alenka Vrecek details her love for her husband, Jim Granger, and how she dealt with the shocking news that he has Parkinson’s disease.

The Tim Tebow Foundation selected Elevation Truckee to host Night to Shine, a formal dance event for adults with developmental disabilities.

A little brown bat, awakened from its hibernation in a Donner Lake cabin, crowd-sourced a ride to a rescue center down the hill; a scared Truckee cattle dog, on the lam for two days, finds her way back.

Cookie week at North Tahoe High School is a joy-filled week when culinary students bake more than 8,000 cookies for a cookie exchange that happens just before winter break.

Carolyn Usinger has made it her mission to make Tahoe a more beautiful place by picking up litter. When she was convicted of misdemeanors for illegally disposing the litter into the Nevada Department of Transportation’ empty dumpster, she felt defeated. The community’s support inspired her to keep going and she is working to develop a program called Zero Trash Tahoe.

Village Pet Foundation is a new nonprofit that helps those in need cover pet medical expenses.

The designs that architect Lenise Candiotto Guimarães crafted throughout her decades-long career left a lasting influence on the aesthetics of neighborhoods throughout Truckee and North Tahoe.

If parents are seeking to establish independent sleeping skills for their babies and toddlers, Tracy Chaney is the person they’re looking for.

The third and final phase of the Truckee Bike Park is complete, now offering terrain for everyone from beginner to pro riders.