• Northstar’s 18-hole golf course is scheduled to open May 18.

• Nevada magazine’s Great Nevada Picture Hunt photo contest is open to all photographers. Send up to eight submissions via email to tony@nevadamagazine.com by 5pm June 29.

• The May issue of Men’s Journal lists Truckee as one of the Best Mountain Towns in America.

• Starting July 16, live music will be offered at Sand Harbor on the stage usually reserved for Shakespeare performances. Details are online.

• Harcourts NV1 Realty recently made two donations to Austin’s House (the only emergency children’s shelter in rural Northern Nevada) – a four-wheel drive vehicle, and supplies and labor to replace the floors in the kitchen, mudroom and hallways.