• UNR Professor Peter Goin through Arcadia Publishing has released “Lake Tahoe: A Maritime History”.

• Yosemite National Park’s plans to rehab the historic Ahwahnee hotel won’t have a significant impact on park operations and the nearby environment, the National Park Service says. The findings are online.

• Mountain Travel Symposium’s registration for the 38th annual conference at the Resort at Squaw Creek in mid-April is up 16 percent compared to last year.

• John Hernstat is now director of sales and marketing at the Hyatt in Incline.

• Barton Memorial Hospital general surgeon Scott Welker is now performing cholecystectomies (removal of the gallbladder) through a small single incision procedure enabled by the GelPOINT system.