For the May Do Tell, Ted Coakley III asks readers, What damage caused by this winter’s snow did you, or will you, repair?

What are your Burning Man plans for this year’s Burn?

The sun sets over a field of lupine at Prosser Lake on a picture-perfect summer’s evening. Photo by Sherrin Fraiman

WILD THINGS: Megan Jost is a Truckee watercolor artist and designer. More recently, she has moved her work to capture native wildlife as well...

Wild horses frolic about by Washoe Lake near Carson City, Nevada.

With home prices soaring in Tahoe/Truckee, local agencies have developed programs to help low- and middle-income families buy homes, but even that might not be enough to make home ownership a reality.

A number of wildfire preparedness-related briefs; Spooner improvement project moves forward; a new makerspace at Incline Elementary School; shifting of leadership at Tahoe Food Hub; and more.

Briefs: 22 Feb. to 28 Feb., including the exoneration of internet infamous massive South Lake bear 'Hank the Tank;' Incline's Rookies Sports Bar to be sold; and workforce housing developments accept applications.

Briefs: 15 Feb. to 21 Feb., including information on the death of a local teenager at Alpine Meadows; Truckee-founded company Coffeebar opening a new (third) location in Reno; the new chair and vice chair appointed to Washoe County’s board of commissioners; and drones that will replace fireworks in Incline Village and Crystal Bay this 4th of July.

The three bands that will play at Winter Snowdown III at the Crystal Bay Casino — Rainbow Girls, Royal Jelly Jive, and Marty O’Reilly & the Old Soul Orchestra — have been playing together for years. It’ll be good to jam together again, they say.