Snippets about Lake Tahoe

Updated Sept. 3 12:30am:

• The Sept. 9 South Lake Tahoe Planning Commission has been canceled. An ordinance concerning medical marijuana dispensaries in the city was supposed to be on the agenda.

• Plumas-Eureka State Park is open again after being closed because a dead ground squirrel tested positive for plague.

• Sand Harbor boat ramp will close after Labor Day.

• Four Nevada residents are each paying nearly $6,000 to attend Lake Tahoe Unified schools for 2010-11.

• Nevada magazine’s September-October issue has the annual photo contest. They are all from the Silver State, unlike last year.

• Summer success of Masters of Magic in Lake Tahoe has led to a three-month run extension — December 2010-March 2011 — with a new cast at MontBleu in Stateline.

• Labor Day Weekend is the time to stock up on winter/ski supplies with several resorts in and around the basin having tent sales. Check the website of your favorite resort to see if they are having one.

• Need to get a TRPA fix? The Governing Board meetings of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency are now streamed on the website.  They are usually all day on the fourth Wednesday and Thursday of the month starting at 9am.