• Amador Stage Lines is offering a season pass on its buses for people traveling between the South Shore and the Reno airport. For more information, call (775) 691.2788.

• Placer County this month changed its retirement benefits.

• Steven Hemphill has been hired to be the communications manager at Sierra-at-Tahoe.

• Plans are moving forward so in 2012 or 2013 construction of the 9.5-mile Martis Valley Regional Trail between Truckee and Lake Tahoe would be under way.

• Luigi’s Tahoe Pizzeria is open at the bottom of Kingsbury Grade in Stateline.

• Soroptimist International Tahoe Sierra is working on the Solar Cooker Project to help refugees who have fled the genocide of Darfur. For information about donating to the cause, email Mandy Kendall at mandykendall1@gmail.com.