Originally Published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 5/20/2025, Written by Katelyn Welsh

The Incline High School swim team completed its season at the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association’s (NIAA) 3A State Swimming Championships on Saturday, May 17, at the Moana Springs pool in Reno, Nev. The team had 10 student-athletes span four individual events and three relays.

Senior and co-captain Ava Hane finished 4th in both the 200 yard individual medley and the 100 yard backstroke. Hane out competed Tahoe-Truckee basin competitor Kyla McCarthy Smith of Truckee High School (6th), but fell behind South Tahoe High School’s Nichole Whisnant (2nd) in the medley. In the 100 yard breaststroke, Hane, with a time of 1:17.18, was just behind Truckee High School’s Sophia Martin, with a time of 1:17.13. Hane outcompeted North Tahoe High School’s Maren Plumb by over two seconds.

Senior and other co-Captain William Arrison finished 7th in both the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard backstroke. Truckee High’s Caleb Edwards (5th) outcompeted Arrison in the medley. In the breaststroke competition, Arrison beat Truckee High School’s Jack Ridgel by close to three seconds. North Tahoe’s Dexter Vastine beat Arrison by almost four seconds.

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Originally Published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 05/14/2025, Staff Report

At its regular public meeting, the Washoe County School District (WCSD) Board of Trustees heard a presentation from Chief Financial Officer Mark Mathers, who provided detailed information about the district’s challenging budget forecast for the next two fiscal years. Like many public agencies, the district is facing cuts to state and federal funding and is taking a variety of steps to keep the cuts from directly impacting students and classrooms.

Following the presentation, the Board of Trustees approved most of the budget recommendations that will be incorporated into the district’s final budget, but acknowledged that fiscal challenges lie ahead, partially as a result of a slowing economy and federal policy changes that reduced anticipated funding for education.

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Looking for fun, educational, and creative ways to connect with your community? The Incline Village Library offers a vibrant lineup of events for all ages — from weekly story times and writing workshops to hands-on STEAM adventures and interactive performances. Many events require registration, which can be done at washoecountylibrary.us/events. You can also find the full, up-to-date calendar of Incline Village Library happenings on the IVCBA Community Calendar — your local source for what’s happening in Incline Village and Crystal Bay.

Incline Village Library Events:

Please visit washoecountylibrary.us/events to register for events that require registration. 

Every Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30 am: Family Story Time 

Every Friday in April and May, 3-5 pm: Cold Case Escape room. Reservations are required at least 24hrs in advance. 

Every 1st Tuesday of the month, 6pm: P.J. Story Time – a family story time with a bedtime theme. Come in your pj’s! 

Every 2nd and 4th Mondays, 2-4 pm: Write Your Life – a memoir writing workshop 

Every 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 3:30 pm: Wind-Down Wednesdays for Adults. Join us for a variety of events that allow you to connect and relax. Registration required. 

Every 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 3-5 pm: Never Felt Better – a casual drop-in wool felting program. All skill levels welcome 

Every 3rd Tuesday, 10:30 am: Inclined to Read Book Group – refreshments served! 

Every 3rd Saturday, 1pm: Family BINGO with prizes to be won! 

Every 4th Saturday, 10:30 am: Paws 2 Read – read to a friendly dog. Registration required. 

Wednesdays, May 14, 21, 28, 4 pm: Spring STEAM with NDOW – Join us for an engaging wildlife adventure every Wednesday in collaboration with the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW)! Explore a unique facet of Nevada’s diverse wildlife through interactive, hands-on presentations. Week 1: Hides and Skulls. Week 2: Bats. Week 3: Reptiles and Herps. 

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, June 3, 4, 5, 3-5 pm: Adult Sewing Class – Whether you’re a beginner or looking to refine your skills, join us for a fun, hands-on session where you’ll learn new techniques and create your own masterpiece. The library will supply thread, fabric, and scissors. Registration is required. 

Saturday, June 7, 11am – 2pm: Incline Village Block Party and Summer Reading Challenge Kickoff! Join the fun at the 3rd Annual Library Block Party. There will be games, art demonstration, Double Dutch, information booths, DJ, rocket launches, free hot dogs, chips and drink, cake celebrating the library’s 20th Anniversary, and a lot more!  

Tuesday, Wednesday, June 24, 25, 2-3:30 pm: Camp STEAM – Join us for a two-day camp of STEAM filled fun! STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, art, and math. We’ll be exploring each of these five topics through engaging experiments over the course of two days. Recommended for ages 6 to 11. Registration is required. 

Tuesday, July 15, 5-6pm: Reno Phil: Discover Music Concert – Experience the magic of live music with Discover Music, the Reno Phil’s exciting and interactive educational performance series! Enjoy interactive concerts by small ensembles (1-5 Reno Phil musicians) as they share their music, showcase their instruments, and inspire a love for music. Perfect for all ages, these free summer performances bring the joy of symphonic music right to your local library!

Thursday, Friday, July 17, 18, 24, 25, 1-4 pm: Area 51: Escape Room – Solve fun puzzles as you try to stop aliens from draining Earth of all color. You’ll uncover clues in an Area 51 research center, decipher an alien language, and try to save the planet in under 45 minutes. Registration required. 

Wednesday, July 30, 4-5pm: Young Shakespeare Presents “Twelfth Night” – Young Shakespeare, a D.G. Menchetti Education Program, features an interactive, hour-long adaptation of their mainstage production created with the young audience member in mind. This summer their team will be presenting an adaptation of Twelfth Night, a hilarious and twisty play about Viola, who’s shipwrecked and disguises herself as a boy to survive. She helps Duke Orsino, who’s in love with Countess Olivia, but Olivia ends up falling for Viola’s disguise instead! There’s plenty of mistaken identity, pranks, and witty characters, including a trickster who causes chaos. In this interactive, family-friendly performance, you’ll get involved and experience the wild mix-ups firsthand. It’s a story about love, identity, and having fun with the unexpected — and with surprises in store. You never know what will happen next!

Thursday, July 30, 3-4:30pm: Pokémon GO at the Library – End your Summer Reading Challenge by tackling several adventures catching Pokémon at our Pokémon party! Come meet other Pokémon trainers and raid, trade, and battle at our very own Incline Village Library PokéStop and nearby gyms. Trainers can use the meeting room for exchanging Pokémon, battling, or just catching up. Lures will be placed at nearby PokéStops so plenty of Pokémon will be around. Participate in fun Pokémon-themed games and win prizes (while supplies last). 

Originally published in The Tahoe Daily Tribune, 05/07/2025, Written by Katelyn Welsh

 The Incline High School boys and girls swim team are preparing for regionals after wrapping up their regular season on Saturday, May 3 in Reno, Nev. against Churchill County High School and Wooster High School.

The teams were both victorious and defeated. While the girls won against Churchill, they fell to Wooster. The boys inversely came up short against Churchill, yet bested Wooster.

Individually, Sophomore Jayden Mendoza won the 500 Freestyle event, outpacing his personal best time by 23 seconds.

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By: Kayla Anderson

It’s that time of the year when the weather is getting nicer and kids are itching to get out of school and on with their summer vacation. Here are some camps and activities to keep them entertained:  

Mountain Bike Teams

The Diamond Peak Mountain Bike Team (DPMBT)- For two-wheeled rippers around ages 6 and older, the DPMBT invites them to come and improve their skills by riding some of the best trails in the Tahoe basin. Experienced coaches are happy to guide athletes from their first mountain bike ride to national competitions, but if they want to just ride for fun then that’s okay, too. Rides are tailored to riders in the Mini Shreds (ages 6-8) and Cross Country Team (ages 9-plus) groups. For more information, visit  https://www.dpsef.org/programs/mountain-bike-team . 

Lake Tahoe School Youth Mtn. Bike Summer Camp, July 21-25– The Lake Tahoe School in Incline Village also hosts a five days of off-road cycling morning rides for kids ages 9-13. Nothing too easy and nothing too hard, the group rides 10-12 miles per day. Transportation, snacks, and mountain bike gloves are provided, but the camp is limited to only seven campers and likely to fill up fast. 

Daisy Day Care Saturday Summer Camp

Running one of the only licensed home daycare centers in North Lake Tahoe, Daisy Day Care Founder Harmony Shreve has been a licensed childcare provider for more than 25 years and has “loved every minute of it.” Her Daisy Day Care’s Saturday Summer Camp (for ages 2-10) offers a great opportunity for kids to explore, learn, and have fun outdoors. Each week, the camp meets at a different trailhead near Incline Village and go through a curriculum that includes yoga, hiking, breathwork, nature lessons, and snack breaks. Season passes for the Saturday sessions are on sale until May 31^st but there is a limited supply. https://tahoedaisydaycare.com/ . 

Incline Village Library

The Washoe County Library System has activities for kids and adults available all year long, but summertime is when the real fun starts. Along with the Summer Reading Program, the Incline Village Library will have Camp STEAM for kids ages 6-11 on June 24-25^th and Art Camp for Kids ages 7-12 for three days July 8-10^th. In the two-day Camp STEAM, kids have fun with science, technology, engineering, art, and math, diving into these five innovative topics through engaging experiments over two days. 

The creative three-day Art Camp for Kids in July explores different art techniques inspired by famous artists. They’ll learn about a new artist, experimenting with painting and crafting in fun hands-on activities as well as collaborate on a group art project and create their own masterpieces to take home. Registration for both programs is required, visit the library on 845 Alder Avenue to sign up. 

Tahoe Family Solutions Camp Explore

Tahoe Family Solutions will be having its popular and successful Camp Explore come back this summer, with overnight camping trips for 3^rd-8^th graders and the Backpacking Group for 6^th-8^th graders. Campers explore the Sierra Nevada trails, lakes and peaks with their new friends as well as take part in activities such as hiking, swimming, kayaking, crafting, learning outdoor safety skills, and making s’mores around a campfire. Since these camps are free this year (thanks to the generosity of community donors) and meant for kids who wouldn’t have these opportunities otherwise, they fill up extremely fast. Registration opens in April. 

Boys & Girls Club of NLT (BGCNLT)

The Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe offers several daily and multi-day specialty camps at its locations throughout North Lake Tahoe, including the Kings Beach Clubhouse, the Truckee Elementary school site, and the Duffield Youth Program – Incline Village.

Its summer camps and activities feature themed weeks, beach days, sports, arts & crafts, STEM activities, field trips, and more. In addition to its standard camps, BGCNLT hosts specialty camps such as mountain biking, kayaking, paddle camps, and hiking excursions. BGCNLT summer camps are open to kids in K-5th grade and teens in 6th-12th grade. Registration opens April 1st. To access the current summer day camps, specialty camps, and field trips digital guide, visit www.bgcnlt.org. Offerings are subject to change.

Nike Swim Camp at UNR at Lake Tahoe

Open to competitive swimmers ages 10-18, the coed Nike Swim Camp is designed to take those skills to the next level by providing a better understanding of swimming fundamentals. Overnight campers stay on campus in dorm rooms and meals are included, but extended stay/commuter participants can come as well.  This camp is best for teens who have competitive swimming experience and can swim at least 50 meters in all four competitive strokes: fly, back, breast, and freestyle. For more information, visit https://www.ussportscamps.com/swim/nike/university-nevada-reno-lake-tahoe-swim-camp

IVGID Summer Camps 

The Incline Village General Improvement District will host tennis camps, junior lifeguard camps, basketball camps, and more this summer; for more information about its current and upcoming programming visit www.inclinerecreation.com. 

Ambassadors Soccer Camp

Get ready for another epic summer soccer camp! Cornerstone Church and Ambassadors Soccer Camps bring you a camp focused on children ages 5 – 14 that creates a five-day (Monday – Friday) soccer experience. Campers will play and compete in a fun, safe and positive environment facilitated by Christian mentor-coaches from around the world. Our soccer camps also include a daily Bible time where children will hear more about the Bible and faith in Jesus through our Toward the Goal curriculum.

Lake Tahoe School Summer Camps

Reading With Your Littles – this starts May 1. It’s a great program designed to help parents prepare their children for entering kindergarten. Parents are their most important teachers! The program was designed to give children ages 18 mos to 5 years the skills and confidence they need to excel in school and beyond. Language skills are developed through reading, singing, and playtime. Through June 12. 

Healthy Minds, Healthy Families – this is a community event taking place at St. Francis on May 14 at 5:30 pm. Designed to help parents learn effective ways to support their children/youth/adolescents through the many challenges they may be dealing with, and the resources available to support their families in our community. We have several partners joining to speak and provide information. It’s free to open to everyone. 

Also, an update: there was a flood at our Thrift Store on Sunday. We are currently closed for repairs but we are working to restore everything as quickly as possible. I keep posting on our page, but hopefully we will be fully operational within the next day or two.

Lake Tahoe School recently concluded a vibrant and impactful week of Earth Day celebrations, engaging students across all grade levels in a diverse range of environmental initiatives. The week showcased the school’s deep commitment to sustainability and fostering environmental stewardship within its community.

The festivities commenced with a presentation from the Sugar Pine Foundation, educating students on the importance of preserving this iconic tree species. A unique highlight was a special performance by the 7th grade, who reprised a song about sugar pines they originally wrote and performed as 4th graders.

The Lower School participated in a dynamic Earth Day celebration in Duffield Hall, featuring interactive stations focused on environmental projects and activities. Adding a hands-on element, 1st and 4th graders embarked on a field trip dedicated to planting more sugar pines and monitoring the growth of previously planted seedlings.

The school’s youngest learners, the PreK classes, contributed with a heartwarming performance of songs and rhymes in support of rainforest conservation. This tied into a presentation by the 8th grade on Green Communities in Costa Rica, sharing insights from their Winterim trip in March and highlighting global environmental interconnectedness.

Prior to Earth Day week, a middle school advisory group demonstrated proactive environmental action by organizing a clean-up along the East Shore Trail.

“What a beautiful Earth Day celebration we had filled with smiles, soil, and seedlings,” said Debbie Kadziauskas, Lower School Science teacher at Lake Tahoe School. “We are incredibly proud of the enthusiasm and dedication our students and faculty showed throughout the week. These activities not only educate but also empower our students to become active participants in environmental conservation. We are thankful to the Sugar Pine Foundation for their contribution to educating our students.”

The week-long celebration underscored Lake Tahoe School’s ongoing commitment to integrating environmental awareness and action into the fabric of its educational program.

Originally published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 4/28/2025, Written by Eli Ramos

Stephanie Hampton, the Tahoe Environmental Research Center’s (TERC) new director, took to the stage as part of the Center’s science series to speak about her work in freshwater ecology, what excites her about lakes, and why she came to Tahoe to work at the TERC.

Hampton’s only been at the TERC for seven weeks, but she has two decades of experience in freshwater ecology research—which has helped inform stakeholders and policymakers in the environmental world. She previously worked as deputy director for the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as director of the Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach at Washington State University, where she was also a professor.

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Spring is here! Get ready for summer in Tahoe!

It’s your lucky day! There are still spots available in summer art workshops at the arts at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe! Sign up now to secure your spot.  The Holman Arts and Media Center invites artists of all skill levels to Lake Tahoe for its annual Summer Arts Workshops. Attendees will spend five days in an intensive creative experience led by internationally recognized sculptors, painters, photographers and mixed-media artists. On-campus housing is available in limited supply.

Explore the Workshops Here