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Nevada County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Fundraiser

Nevada County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Nordic Search Team training in the Castle Peak area. Front from left: Keith Tatsukawa, Ivan McGurk, Jason Toby, Ken Meyers, Rondo the CARDA dog and Georgene Goodstein. Back row from left: Gary Apple, Torben Eriksen, Jasmine Wevers, Blake Hindman, Jeff Lund, Tony Giacalone and Trent Hignight. The Nevada County [...]
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CB Weekly Real Estate Marketing Report: February 6th to February 12th

Coldwell Banker 2012 Weekly Real Estate Market Report North Lake Tahoe-Truckee Region Residential Properties – Single Family Homes and Condominiums Week of:  February 6th to February 12th Active Inventory Summary: Active Listings: The inventory for residential properties is currently at the lowest level for the past 14-months with 804 active listings in the market; 567 [...]
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Reality Check: Optimistic Housing Market Outlook!

Here is an analysis of what to expect in the 2012 housing market. It is accompanied by photos of my home, Truckee, CA. Call me today to explore the opportunity of becoming a member of our beautiful community. Truckee Hiking Frozen Donner Lake Introduction While the housing market had its challenges in recent years, there [...]
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Healthy Super Bowl Snacks

It’s easy to go overboard when it comes to snacking during the Super Bowl. Studies show that Americans eat about 44 percent more in social settings than when dining alone. It is recommend to use salad bowls and plates for main dishes and going easy on or entirely skipping fatty dips and chips, which pack [...]
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The Mega-machine of Super Bowl Commercials

The Super Bowl has become much more than a sporting event and the culmination of the NFL season. It’s become a cultural phenomenon, a pop culture bellwether that more than 111 million Americans watched in 2011. That’s more than one third of all the people living in the U.S. at the time. If you have [...]
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Stone Soup: A Truckee Community Event

The first Stone Soup of the 2012 season took place Sunday, Jan. 22, 5-7 p.m., at the Community Arts Center, 10046 Church St., Downtown Truckee, Stone Soup is a community based, volunteer staffed evening of soup and friendship. A different business or organization sponsors this weekly event, the volunteer group chopping, dicing, sautéing and cooking [...]
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The Snow Is Here, Be Avalanche Aware!

Mother nature has finally decided to bring us some of that fluffy white stuff. Naturally, it’s a race to the gates to get the freshest tracks. As responsible snowsport enthusiasts, we should all have an awareness of the prevention and safety of avalanche emergencies.  Here is a link to a video of a real burial [...]
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Ghostly Morals

A recent featured blog post on ActiveRain.com brought up the topic of selling a home with a morbid history. The blog post was this… “I was doing a staging consultation for a Realtor I work with and as I walked through the home taking notes the homeowner, Karen, a very nice woman talked about the [...]
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‘Dream Big’ Artist Creates from Rubix Cubes

Dream big For his artwork Dream Big Peter Fecteau used 4.242 Rubik’s Cubes to make a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. Technicals: The mosaic is made of 4,242 officially licensed Rubik’s Cubes. It measures 19′ x 8’6″ x 2.25″ (5.8m x 2.6m x 5.7cm ). It weighs roughly 1000 pounds (454kg). Each cube has [...]
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Futuristic and Innovative Homes for Sale Right Now

Here is a selection of futuristic abodes that challenge traditional McMansion layouts.  These homes are handpicked as the sleekest, most avant-garde, in some cases zaniest, homes currently or recently on the market. They conjure images of science fiction lore, and in many cases, have actually been rented out by movie and television studios for that [...]
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