• January is Train Your Dog Month.

• Campo Mammoth is chef Mark Estee’s lastest project. The chef-owner of Campo Reno has partnered with Levy Restaurants, which owns Spiaggia in Chicago, to open the Mammoth eatery.

• Want to join a community book club on the South Shore? More info is online.

• Friends of the West Shore has become an independent nonprofit corporation and therefore no longer needs to be sponsored by Sierra Nevada Alliance.

• Here is the El Dorado-Tahoe roadwork schedule from Caltrans.