• Lake Tahoe Unified School District Superintendent Jim Tarwater has been invited to be a speaker at the AVID annual Conference in Orland to share LTUSD’s progress in infusing Advancement Via Individual Determination concepts in grades 4-12. LTUSD is the only AVID District in the world. The organization is paying Tarwater’s expenses.

• Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences in Incline is one of three green buildings to receive the Livable Buildings Awards for 2011 by the UC Berkeley’s Center for the Built Environment.

• Lake Tahoe Community College academic year 2012-13 will have its winter break coincide with Lake Tahoe Unified’s. School will resume Jan. 17, 2013.

• Caltrans has released its Sierra and El Dorado-Tahoe roadwork schedules for this week.