Snippets about Lake Tahoe

• Placer County has released the Notice of Preparation for the Squaw Village proposed project. The document is online. Comments will be taken through Nov. 9.

• The Sacramento Bee did a study on California legislators that shows in the 2011-12 session 99 percent of the time Democrats voted the same way as the majority of their party; 94 percent of the time Republicans voted the same way as the majority of their party.

• The Tahoe City Transit Center (165 West Lake Blvd.) will be officially unveiled Oct. 22 at 3pm.

• The Truckee Halloween Parade starts at the train station Oct. 26 at 6pm.

• A partnership between Homewood Mountain Resort, West Shore Café & Inn, and the Annenberg Foundation has put a camera on the mountain and at the lake as part of the nonprofit’s Pearls of the Planet initiative. Go online for more info.