• The Fields Committee of the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Facilities Joint Powers Authority will meet Dec. 17 from 4–6pm at Lake Tahoe Airport.

• The work of Tahoe City architecture and engineering firm Gary Davis Group was recently featured as the cover story in Residential Design + Build magazine.

• Passage of Proposition 30 also means money for California’s opening meeting law. Local agencies were still following the Brown Act.

• Squaw Valley is kicking off winter with the Get Outside Festival on Dec. 22.

• Lawyers James Hales and Nathan Tod Young of Minden and Marc Picker of Reno are the finalists to succeed Douglas County District Court Judge David Gamble, who is retiring Jan. 6. Gov. Brian Sandoval will make the appointment.