• It was announced this week that the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix (Visa Halfpipe and Slopestyle Skiing) will be at Northstar Jan. 9-12.

• Bernadette Lovato is now the district manager for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Carson City office. She is responsible for 4.8 million acres of federal lands in 11 counties in western Nevada and eastern California.

• Placer County Transit Services was named 2013 Rural Transit Program of the Year by the California Association for Coordinated Transportation.

• It must have been a slow news day. The San Francisco Chronicle on June 9 had the South Shore’s loop road as the lead story.

• Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers from New Orleans will take the stage July 27 at Tahoe Donner’s Concert on the Green. For more information, call (530) 587.9400.