Snippets about Lake Tahoe

• Five time Winter X Games medalist Jaime Anderson is providing sponsorships for South Tahoe Middle School students Rosa Rosas and Jesus Vazquez-Macias to ski at her hometown resort Sierra-at-Tahoe.

• Read what Rusty Gregory, CEO of Mammoth Mountain, wrote to employees about this ski season.

• Après Wine Co. in South Lake Tahoe is having a Pray for Snow Party on Friday the 13th from 4-10pm.

• Winter farmers’ markets are on the rise, increasing 38 percent in 2010 to 1,225 markets, according the federal government. New York has the most at 180, with California No. 2 with 153 winter markets.

• It should cost less to get gas at the corner of Ski Run Boulevard and Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe because the Chevron is becoming a Valero.