• Kirkwood’s Mountain Bike Park opens for weekends starting July 2.

• Jeannie Conner is bringing her 20 years of nonprofit leadership from the Silicon Valley to be executive director of the Squaw Valley Institute.

• For information about Placer County’s redistricting plans, go online.

• The North Shore’s reliable, consistent and non-bankrupt bus service showed an 18 percent increase in ridership for the winter season. Tahoe Area Regional Transit is also on the West Shore and Truckee.

• Lake of the Sky Outfitters opened this month on the backside of the Y Factory Stores in South Tahoe.

• Kennedy Wilson sold 15 luxury condominiums for more than $6 million at the Resort at Squaw Creek. More than 100 bidders, with 40 of them online, bid on the condos April 30.