• Parade magazine calls Adventure Mountain and Granlibakken in Lake Tahoe two of the best sledding hills in the U.S.

• Lynn Gillette this week resigned as president of Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village and Shannon Beets, executive vice president and provost, is temporarily taking over the top spot.

• The Christmas bird count on the South Shore tallied 74 species, with an additional seven during the week.

• Lake Tahoe News T-shirts are available for $15. Send a check made out to Lake Tahoe News to P.O. Box 13406, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96151 and tell us your shirt size and where to mail it to. We have small, medium, large and extra large.

• Tahoe Donner Cross Country is opening this weekend.