• Tahoe Donner Equestrian Center is offering guided trail rides Thursday through Monday, as well as daily pony rides for children ages 2-6. The center opens June 15.

• Parasol Foundation is having an open house June 20 from 4:30-7pm at its offices at 948 Incline Way, Incline Village. For more info, call (775) 298.0184.

• A Lake Tahoe ski resort employee with the first name of Diogo (no last name given) is one of 25 men competing on “The Bachelorette” starting May 27.

• The Nevada System of Higher Education was awarded a $20 million grant for green energy research from the National Science Foundation.

• Meyers-based publishing house Bona Fide Books has signed its first novelist, Ann Gelder. “Bigfoot and the Baby” will be released in spring 2014.