• Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe is on Conde Nast Traveler’s gold list for 2013 as one of the top hotels in the U.S. as rated by readers of the magazine.

• Placer County Supervisor Jennifer Montgomery canceled the Dec. 27 Tahoe coffee meeting because of the holiday week.

• The Trust for Public Land and the Truckee Donner Land Trust, working as part of the Northern Sierra Partnership, raised $11.25 million, meeting a Dec. 20 deadline to buy Royal Gorge Cross Country Ski Area.

• Here are the roadwork schedules from Caltrans for El Dorado-Tahoe and Sierra.

• Tahoe Regional Planning Agency staff provided gifts of clothes and toys to 35 foster children ages 4-17 through Court Appointed Special Advocates. In addition, TRPA staff adopted a family through the Tahoe Family Resource Center and provided wrapped presents of warm clothes and toys for a single mother and her three children, as well as three boxes of food and nearly $600 in local gift cards for the family.