Snippets about Lake Tahoe

• Après Wine Co. in South Lake Tahoe celebrated its fifth anniversary on New Year’s Eve.

• The Bay Area is one of the top 10 metro areas in the U.S. for Burton. That’s why the sporting good company just opened flagship stores in Berkeley and San Francisco. It proves why Lake Tahoe depends on that drive-up market.

• Wells Fargo inside Raley’s at Y in South Lake Tahoe is planning to move to the old Sports Ltd. spot in the same center.

• Royal Gorge will temporarily close its cross country ski trails beginning on Jan. 8 due to a lack of snow.

• Lake Tahoe’s California Assemblyman Frank Bigelow, R-O’Neals, was named vice chair of the Assembly Appropriations Committee.