• Jeff Marsolais has left his job as recreation and land staff officer in the Inyo forest to lead the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the U.S. Forest Service. He will be in South Lake Tahoe for 120 days. His official title will be acting supervisor – that’s as of Dec. 5.

• The Sierra Nevada Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America presented Bethany Drysdale of the Nevada Commission on Tourism with the Mark Curtis Sr. Professional of the Year Award at the organization’s annual awards ceremony last week.

• The intersection of Mount Rose Highway and Highway 28 in Incline will be a roundabout. NDOT plans to bid the project in the spring.

• An unnamed person paid at least $1.1 million (the minimum bid) for Carson Nugget’s gold collection. The Carson City collection included 170 specimens of gold.

• South Tahoe Middle School is one of five schools in the country to be part of a pilot program for Teen Truth Live to measure curriculum (much of it focused on bullying) that will be outcome based.

• Applications for the 2011-12 school year are being accepted by Camino Science and Natural Resources Charter School. The El Dorado County school will be operated by Camino Union School District. For more information, call (530) 644.4552, ext. 213.