• Placer County planning commissioners in August approved Alpine Meadows’ application to replace the existing Hot Wheels triple chairlift with a detachable quad chairlift that would be about 1,000 feet longer to reach the Sherwood Bowl ridge.

• Genevieve Evans of Carnelian Bay won the XTERRA Lake Tahoe off-road triathlon in Incline Village in August.

• Lake Tahoe Unified School District is introducing Sprigeo, an online system where students at South Tahoe High and Middle schools can report bullying incidents and school safety threats.

• North Shore resident and six-time X Games medalist Nate Holland hopped on his skateboard and went for a 28-mile cruise for breast cancer in August as part of Boarding for Breast Cancer’s event in Tahoe City.

• The Sparks Tribune newspaper, which started in 1910, became a twice-weekly publication starting Sept. 1.